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Florianopolis Slideshow
Florianopolis
Travel Blogs from Florianopolis, Brazil
Beach time
We arrived at Florianolpolis bus station after dark at 7.15pm, instead of the scheduled 10.40am.. a mere 8 hours late. We had another 1 hour after that to our destination on the island, Barra de Lagoa. Our hostel has a lot of people and has a free ...
Bikinis, beaches and caipirinhas
... to do in the city and we were only there for 2 days so unfortunately did nothing more than go and see the Se Cathedral. Florianopolis saw us stay in a little hostel hidden in the suburbs, but one filled with great people! We were again, not blessed with ...
Troisième jour à Florianopolis : Lagoa
... mon genou qui ne s'améliore guère. Je suis resté là un bon moment, et quand Julie est revenue, on est retourné vers Florianopolis, après s'être arrêté dans un bar pour prendre un jus de fruit. Dans le bus du retour, on a rencontré un type qui ...
Florianopolis
... hostel). So, lugging my huge suitcase and backpack, I had to change buses and then arrived 2 minutes before the big bus to Florianopolis left. Then, when I finally got to Floripa, the lady whose house I was supposed to stay at wasn't answering the door, ...
Une dernière journée sur l'île : le Sud
... , Sam et Julie se sont baignés dans la mer qui était à seulement 30 mètres du restaurant. Moi je voulais ensuite quitter Florianopolis pour aller à Urubici avec un bus à 18h30, et Julie voulait rester un jour de plus. Sam nous a donc amenés à la ...
Brahminia!
After the craziness of B.A., and I have to say the best stay in B.A. as of yet and together with carnival in Salvador the best times I have had during my trip, I went back to Floripa to do a bit of surfing (or trying to) and instead of staying in the ...
You know you are in Brazil when.....
You know you are in Brazil when the day starts late, hot and sunny. When you take the worlds slowest boat to a tiny sun drenched island and spend hours lounging on the sand drinking beer, swimming and creating a list of attributes of the ...
Floripa
... 5 days have been full of beaches, waves, new friends, sun, toe crushing samba, hikes, and cheap bus rides into town.Florianopolis is nothing but lovely in the summer time of December and January. Floripa was described to me as Brazil´s Florida. ...
Floripa wet wet wet ;-(
The bus journey went very smoothly and we arrived in the beautiful city of florianopolis. Attached to the city by only a bridge is ilha santa Catalina which was our destination. Ronaldo had recommended some beaches to us so with that we headed north. We ...
Wowzers, time for trousers! 28 degrees in Floripa
... even though it would be a bit of a budget buster and we literally had to drag Zoe away. Florianopolis will be the last place we stay in Brazil before moving on to the Iguacu falls which borders Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Next stop, Puerto ...
Florianopolis
... ; Finally we were heading to the beach, and we were looking forward to it. It was an uneventful overnight bus ride to Florianopolis, and the island we were going to stay on. From The town centre we headed to Barra do Lagoa on the other ...
Torres to Florianopolis
... Internet as to how to get to the hostel and on the instructions it seemed really easy!!!! Florianopolis is a large city on the coast of Brazil, a very popular tourist destination for Argentine, American, Brazilian and many other countries! It is ...
Brazil...we are in love with thee!
... point in the night, the terrain changed from the flat ranches and farmland of Uruguay to the lush vegetation and rolling hills of Brazil. The smells are different, all of a sudden the air is warm and mulchy like in other tropical ...
Deuxième jour à Floripa : petit tour en ville
Je me suis réveillé étrangement tôt ce matin-là, si bien que personne n'était debout. Du coup, alors que je m'étais habillé, je me suis recouché. A 10h, Julie et moi nous sommes levés, les filles dormaient. On a bougé en ville vers 11h, ...
Brazilië - Florianópolis
Dinsdag 19 februari 2008 Weer lekker ontbeten, met Ken en Barbie ;o)! Daarna echte Braziliaanse groen - gele schoenen gaan halen voor Pim. Een beetje rondgelummeld voor we naar de volgende stad, Gramado, trekken. Hier nemen we de bus naar ...
Premier jour à Florianopolis : l'arrivée
... en longueur, très proche du continent, si bien qu'un pont les relie. Nous avions emprunté ce pont le matin-même en bus. Florianopolis (Floripa pour les intimes) est une ville construite des deux côtés du pont. En tout, il y a 332 000 habitants dans ...
Two thumbs up for Floripa...
... , ¨Mauro, what does fujida mean?¨ He said, ¨Fujida es...how you say, f$%king awesome?!¨ Indeed Mauro was correct. Florianopolis is fujida. And, I now understand why he had that devilish smile when he was describing it. Florianopolis is the main ...
Rio Rocks
... I think we ended up here, was the Lonely Planets' promise about how many blondes were walking the streets. Next was onto Florianopolis and Ilha Santa Catarina. It is another beautiful island. In Brazil, every day brings with it a different dog! As you ...
Two caipirinhas for 2 euros
... beaches in Brazil (although nearly everywhere in Brazil they promote their beach of being one of the best beaches in Brazil...) and hosts a worldchampionship surfingcompetition! I was only going to stay here for a couple of days because I wanted to ...
Short trip on IlhaSanta Catarina
... the point where the three borders join. Today, Tuesday, i went to Ilha Santa Catarina, which is a small island next to Florianopolis. I was told it was great but honestly, there are only beaches, guesthouses and restaurant. Still it is beautiful and my ...
Beached in Florianopolis..
... Christmas time. We celebrated in fine style at one of the many beaches here on the island on the island of Santa Catarina. Florianopolis, the actual town is situated half on the mainland and half on the island. There are 42 beaches and lagoons to choose ...
Florianopolis
So we arrived in Florianopolis and discovered the instructions Katie wrote down were from the airport not the bus station and so we ended up taking an hour detour to the airport (getting on the wrong bus has been a major theme of this trip but hey its a ...
Winters and Springs
I switched over to Florianópolis because although Praia da Armação was just getting good weather, it was literally only a street corner and nothing else. I didn´t like the idea of having to take the bus just to get to a restaurant because all of them ...
Sleepy little wintry fishing town
On a whim, I decided to go southerly rather than towards Rio. I could´ve gone there again, but I figured the bus ride would´ve been too long. And I heard Floripa´s beaches were amazing so I ended up going over there. Through some hostel website ...
Rainy Floripa
Florianópolis was full of promises. Everyone told it is a beautiful place and the beaches are very nice. Well, I didn't really have a chance to enjoy it. I arrived under the rain and I left after three rainy days. That's the first time it happens to me ...
Beautiful empty beaches here
... out of that bus station. So yea Porto Alegre was nothing special and should have skipped it all together. Whatever. Florianopolis is cool though. Its a city that is half on main land and the other half is on the island. ...
Beautiful Beaches of Brazil
... pm the next day in Floripa with a transfer in Curitiba. I have heard of the beautiful beaches for Isla de Santa Catarina / Florianopolis from other travellers, and I always wanted to visit here, so since this will be our last stop to a Brazilian beach, ...