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Paraty Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Paraty, Brazil
Paraty & Paradise MK2 Trinidade
... round the old town and saw most of what was there to see, which was mostly nice old buildings that were pretty much identical. Paraty is definitely not the most exciting place we have been and after checking out the old town and the docks we felt we had ...
Sick slides, Spontaneous friends
... road. It's a bewildering sight to see horse and carriage trotting through sill water, after a hard down poor of rain. Buses leave Paraty every 1 -2 hours to picturesque beaches and waterfalls near bye. I stand at the bus station, unsure which one to take. ...
Paraty
... to their luxury super yachts moored out in the bay. This is definitely a lifestyle one could quickly become accustomed to! Paraty came into existence with the arrival of early Portuguese settlers, but the discovery of gold in the 17th century contributed ...
Paraty ==> Ilha Grande
départ de Paraty pour Ihla Grande (2h de bus et 1h de bateau) Ihla Grande est une ile sauvage qui a était recemment innondé (en décembre) journée tranquille, repos Voilà quelques photos du ...
Paraty
... 're the best!). Venus and I also dragged Dave and Rob around to every store that sold Havaianas in search for the elusive Brazil style for Venus and the Superman style for the littlest Ridge Kidd! I got lucky but unfortunately Venus did not :-( We all ...
Rock slides, rice and rum
... tan and be merry.. so these two blogs will be quite short! nevertheless some news to share so press on i shall! so paraty! was beautiful. unfortunately we had to get the haides bus to get there. 28 hours is not nice particularly when the bus smells ...
Beach life and Sailing
We left Bonito a day early so we could spend a day on the beach at Ubatuba, 60km south of ...
Brazil, Paraty (Parati): ("River of Fish")
Mon 6.10.08: Brazil, Paraty (Parati): ("River of Fish") PERSONAL: A night 12hr bus ride through busy and smog São Paulo and along the coastline before reaching Paraty. Not long after arriving in town and taking to exploring the many cobblestone ...
A party in Paraty
... drive along the coast from Rio. The scenery was beautiful with lush green forest, white beaches and small islands. Our hotel in Paraty was a small locally run hotel and was really lovely. The standard of accommodation on the tour so far has been really ...
Birthday in Paraty and stuff
... Anna and I left Ilha Grande via a 2 hour ferry journey to Angra dos Rois and a 2 hour bus journey from there to Paraty. The road was incredibly scenic, with dramatic mountain scapes and jungle, the bus driver had little respect for speed limits and raced ...
Paraty
... the town, not strenous at all and good views, but surprise surprise it started raining when we reached the top, so started waking quickly back down again! Paraty....pretty town, but too rainy and damp to really enjoy to the fullest ...
The Tour de Cake
... Helen, and we did manage to overtake a couple of old guys on bikes and one with a horse and cart! The really good thing about Brazil is that the cake-bus always seems to be in town! It is offered at every meal in every shape and form - the Pousada we ...
Paraty - Beautiful little town
... than it was last year - the dreaded R word I´d say is having that effect although they are not in a recession here in Brazil. The breakfast was huge, lovely scrambled eggs, bread, cheese, yoghurt drink, lime drink, fruit and nice cake so it filled ...
The start of the journey- BRAZIL!!
... Green Coast), a lush, green corridor that runs along the coastline of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The road to Paraty was indeed stunning, a winding corridor of beach on one side and rolling green hills on the other. The main thing we ...
So you know Karate? Well I know Paraty.
... out why it was weird to go from Sao Paulo to Rio without any stops. I don`t even really like beaches, but I loved Paraty. Apparently it`s usually really quiet there, but because it was Easter weekend, a lot of Paulistas and Cariocas had driven ...
monock butterfly
... the morning I joind the Canadians again as they set off to the bus station, bound for Trinidad. Trinidad was a beach down from paraty that was pretty famue for its beauty. The bus was a ...
Quaint But Fun
... dedicated to selling cachaça, with entire walls of different bottles of the spirit. They like their cachaça, the Brasilians do ! While Paraty is not a surfing centre like Florianópolis, it does have a couple of modest beaches, and here we find the ...
Paraty
... in the streets, (I know I can get lost anywhere) but that was a great way to see the area. There was a beautif ul waterfront with colonial churches and lots of fancy shops. A few Caiparinias (national drink of Brazil) helped finish off the ...
Parati - Brazil's historic cities
We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is highly appreciated. ...
Corcovado, Ilha Grande and Paraty
Hi! I´m writing to you from Paraty, a colonial village on the south east coast. We´ve been away for a while on an island called "Ilha Grande". This literally translates as "big island", and is a holiday destination for both Brazilians and ...
Goodbye Rio
... - as great as this city is it still has the underlying danger element. After 4 hours on the bus we arrive at the costal town of Paraty. Its pitch black and pouring with rain so we go to jump in a taxi. But the taxi driver is charging us 20 ...
Paraty ***, ville coloniale, ballade en bateau
English Espanol German Bon, l arrivee a paraty, se passe plutot bien. Cette petite ville coloniale de 30 000 habitants date de XVIII eme siecle. Des paves de pierre donnent une chaussee irreguliere, les habitations sont colorees, avec ...
Paraty
... more of Brazil from the inside of a racing bus, so it was aboard another one for five hours heading south to Paraty (pronounced Parachee), an old colonial town with cobbledy streets, cafes, and shopping opportunities. There are beaches a bus ride ...
Trinidade a little slice of paradise
... bar, ended up dancing all night with a gay local, teaching me one of thier local dances.In my drunk state I decided to also join the gang to Rio, glad I did as we had great fun.... But knew that i would return to my favourite place in ...
Paraty - Rock jumping and sliding
... really glad we didn´t do the expensive jeep trip which would have been the same for 50 reals. Its pouring with rain back at Paraty town but we decide to head into the colonial old town for a look around. There´s not much to see in the rain ...
Paraty
... town on the Brazillian coast which forms a convenient stop on our travels toward Rio de Janeiro. In Paraty it is much easier to get a feel of what Brazil feels like in the smaller places - Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have such a unique ...
The wife´s birthday in Paraty....aka paradise!
... it was a successful birthday celebration! We spent our last day there doing a boat trip around the millions of islands surrounding Paraty, it was beautiful, the sea was so clear and turquoise and more importantly it was a very good tanning ...
Oldest Backpacker
... diamonds in the same area, attracted pirate ships making whoopee with the laden ships heading back to Portugal. While Paraty hung in there with consequent coffee and cachaca (national drink made from sugar cane with which you make the ...
paraty
... se abrió la montanã y apareció la costa allá abajo. comimos algo en la playa de ubatuba y continuamos viaje hasta paraty,pueblecito colonial precioso y acogedor sobre todo en la pousada a joana donde fuimos a parar, y donde marta la propietaria ...
Rainy Days in Paraty
... ! Late and tired we went for dinner at Domino's and then spent some time looking at our guidebooks to see what to do when we weren't doing carnival events. Overall, Paraty was disappointing blighted as it was by rain and it being a beach ...