Florianopolis Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So we left Foz after an amazing new year and headed north to try and hit some beaches for a few weeks. After a hellish 16 hour bus trip (probably the worse yet) we arrived to where we were told is a must see in Brazil. The difficulty in Brazil is that they speak Portuguese and after finally geting to grips with Spanish after 4 months it is certa...

The Brazilians are a truly unique, gorgeous, unhelpful, colourful, flirtatious, football-loving race. The extremely skinny women seem to have lots of time and money to spend on their looks - most wear super high heels or platforms that elongate their legs even more and make them seem unhuman. They even know how to walk with them! There is no sen...

well John posted some pics on another site... here´s the link http://picasaweb.google.com/john.whyte It´s not the best as I can´t write anything with it, but at least you can see a few pics until we figure something else out.

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Ribeirao da Ilha is a town on the West coast of the Island. Without beaches, it is largely a more local area. I take the bus to the most southern end of the road. It hugs the coastline with homes only 2 or 3 deep from the coast and fishing boats spread out everywhere. Beautiful! I explore a couple of towns including Ribeirao da Ilha which has an...

Lagoinha do Leste is the most beautiful of the beaches. It is isolated and undeveloped. I am going to hike there and camp. The bus takes me as far south as it goes to a fishing village Pantano do Sol. I look for a café on the water that has something other than seafood. Each one has only chicken Milanese. I give up and make that my big meal befo...

So much fun!!! First real music festival I´ve ever been to an it was awesome. I got to see O´Rappa, Boba de novo (really fun axe music), and 4 of the top DJs in the world. A guy drove us an hour to get there and then we couldn´t get in without ID so we had to catch a cab all the way back, grab our IDs and go back again. Part of the adventure I s...

I awake to watch the sunrise. Peacefulness only broken by nature with its lapping waves, songs of the birds ... By 7 AM, some surfers are up to catch the waves (they appear to be most of the campers). My breakfast is a ham and cheese sandwich, the same as for dinner, but I have the added treat of some yogurt and juice. I did not want to deal wit...

Ok so we decided to leave Paraty and head for Florianopolis, one hell of a bus journey, 5 hours to Sao Paulo but the buses here are nice so it wasnt that bad, but we had to wait a while in Sao Paulo, there was some mix up with our buses and we were getting messed about by the bus people who insist on shouting at you in portugeese even though the...

After leaving El, Herdy and I headed back down to the Brazilian coast in search of some sunshine... Sadly we also left Simona and Caz at this point, as they wanted to head down to Buenos Aires via Paraguay and Argentina. Our travels then took us to another island, this one called Isla do Mel. It was just off the coast about 350 miles south west ...