Caraíva, Brazil Travel Blogs

Bahia beach holiday
Feb 26, 2006 (4 photos)

... where we could look at the stars. On Wednesday morning, we looked around the village investigating boat excursions up the Caraiva river, whic is apparently very beautiful. However, it seemed even the boatmen were pitching their services at an upmarket ...

can this please be the last overnight bus ever.
Jun 23, 2007 (2 photos)

Next beach town on the way to Rio. Will not be much to report from here I´m sure... tanning, swimming, cocktails. You know. Seeyou in Rio, Jill and Simon.

28 hours later, finally in Porto Seguro
Sep 28, 2006 (3 photos)

... local wine. It was alot of fun. I went hiking by myself the first day and met up with a group of orchid lovers from Brazil and Germany who invited me to join with them and their guide. So I got to learn lots about the plants and even tasted some orchids ...

Aug 21, 2009
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Aug 27, 2009
Aug 27, 2009 (8 photos)

Tried to go to Salvador. The bike said no.
Nov 9, 2008 (4 photos)

I tired to get up to Salvador as a last big ride, the bike had other ideas as I got through two sets of bearings. I can´t remember the last time I covered 1000 miles without a problem. Car park rear wheel off has become the norm. Someone helicopter me in a ...

Twinkly town
Sep 1, 2005 (7 photos)

As we are giving European equivalents to the places we visit, we´ll carry on here - Arraial is Brazil´s answer to St Tropez. Yes, we are back in twinkly disney-perfect tourist land again. Arraial is very quaint with a grassy, tree-lined town square and ...

Whale watching..
Sep 9, 2005 (7 photos)

... this time...one from Angie´s perspective and one from Darren´s... Ladies first: Abrolhos Marine park is 80km off the coast of Brazil and consists of 5 islands, coral reefs and whale breeding grounds. As the whale season seems to be one of the few ...

Finally Real Vacations - South of Bahia - Brazil
Jul 4, 2008 (10 photos)

... to cross a river to get in to the village, it costs 3 reais per person and takes 5 minutes. After four days in Caraiva we drive to Trancoso, another village but much bigger than Caraiva, with hundreds of hotels from 10 to 1.000 dollars a night. But ...

Time out
Feb 25, 2007 (2 photos)

I spent a few days relaxing in Arraial D`Juda on my way back to Rio.  It is a beachy place with a lot of Brazillian tourists there (and the best per kilo restaurant I have ever been to).  I befriended Luiz on the beach, who was always there with ...

Dancing in the Streets
Jan 19, 2008 (26 photos)

We were very happy to make our move across the river to Arrial d´Ájuda. It didn~t take too long...just a 5 minute ferry ride and a 10min bus ride and we found our next hostel. We bunked up with 2 english girls (one was Brazilian as well) and enjoyed our ...

Have found paradise... Don´t try to find us.
Dec 22, 2006

... , reservoirs and (I mean literally through) rivers. At the end we take a ´ferry´ (a man paddling a dugout canoe) across a river to Caraiva. If only we´d discovered it sooner! It´s paradise! There are no cars on Caraiva and the streets are sand. There is no ...

Caraiva
Aug 19, 2007

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Depois de 10 dias na chapada diamantina ...
Jan 14, 1999

Depois de 10 dias na Chapada Diamantina, Caraíva foi um descanso só!

Espelho
Aug 19, 2007

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A secret hideaway in unmapped Bahia, Brazil
Nov 17, 2009 (1 photos)

... go you could not do much better. We set out from Trancoso, my twin sister and I, and with my encyclopaedic knowledge of Brazil (?!) I had calculated that it might take us some 3 hours to do the 150 miles. What I had not realised was.. well,  ...

Paradise
Dec 28, 2004 (23 photos)

Will write more later, just uploading pictures for now.