Parati Travel Blogs

After only a  few days in Brazil I can already tell that it is my favorite.  I was pleased to see that the Brazilian coast delivered the landscapes that I had envisioned of south america  prior to arrival. Parati is a beautiful colonial  town with eye candy around every corner.&…

Spent a fairly easy day today.  Walked into town after breakfast and dropped our laundry off (it was ready 2 hours later, so pretty good service!).  Then walked up to the old fort that sits just above the town.  It was actually closed today, but we were able to walk around the ground…

Now we know what everyone is raving about when they talk about Brazilian beaches (and not to mention the horrendous prices here)! We arrived in Paraty from Sao Paulo (the most dirty and disgusting looking city we have seen this far) at about 10pm. We wandered around for over an hour looking for so…

tues 9th dec - we woke up and had breakfast. Nat told the women that we were no way going to pay for the room. We went out and found a new place to stay. it was clean and because no one else was staying there we managed to bargin the price down by half. we managed to get all this sorted in time to …

Brazil is soo big! It took us 20 hrs to get to Parati and three diiferent buses. We eventually arrived at 4am to this very small town (17,000 people). Its not nice arriving in the dark, but we had braved the telephone and called ahead to see what was open so there were no problems. Our most importa…

2 days in Parati, Brazil

My 2nd time through Brazil, I felt there was one last obstacle in South America for me to "conquer" -the Amazon. But it all started out in Rio with the Mecca of Brazialian Jiu-Jitsu, the legendary Gracie Barra Academy. Good times, interesting country.

The town is very picturesque, the kind with cobble-stone street and set by the sea. We headed out for some dinner and we cought a street Capoeira performance. Man they could move - we had to record a few short videos an the camera. After a nice dinner and some caprinias, we then headed out fo…

15 days in the South of Brazil looking for Beaches, Culture and Nature!

On Sunday morning we left Rio and headed off to a costal town called Paraty a 4 hour bus journey from Rio. Again we made it on a local bus to the main bus station with a little help from some locals, I tell you our sign language and pointing skills are now very impressive and knowing Thank You in p…

On to Parati with Han, Christos, Alice and Kate (3 Poms). Seems we arrived for the town's anniversary party and there was a big ho-ha with live music etc in the town square. Went to Trinidade beach on the 5th and to a waterfall/rockslide on the 6th. V fun - 20m of sloped rock that you slide dwn in…

So I decide to head back down to Parati with the new group for a couple of days to escape the madness of Rio. Andy and I head out to pick up Freida (that's the name of the truck) from truck park and head back in to pick up everybody else. There's a few goodbyes to be done from the rest of the group…