"Alex: Paraty is only about 4 hours from Rio and seems to be a popular Brazilian holiday destination and rightly so. The town itself is all quaint cobbled streets and little colonia ..."
A travel blog entry from Paraty by
alexndean
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"Are you after a place to relax and basically do nothing? Well then Paraty (pronounced Par-ach-ie) down the coast from Rio is the place. We arrived a few days ago and found a place ..."
"After a week of busy beaches and chock a block streets in Rio we decided to take it easy on the relaxing island of Ilha Grande (about 3 hours south of Rio). As we arrived the weath ..."
"4 hours of luxury bus journey with the rainforest on one side and some stunning coastline on the other, we were light years away from the frenzy of Rio. Paraty was founded in 1500 ..."
"Yesterday unfortunately we had to drag ourselves away from Paraty and go back to Rio de Janeiro, where lucky enough we would be able to lie on the beach again. Paraty is in one wor ..."
A travel blog entry from Paraty by
roel_e
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"I am glad more and more friends (incl. JB, Sandra and Melissa among others) are getting hoocked on our adventures....Thanks for reading us! We have come to realise that the New Yea ..."
"Hi all Just a quick one today! We started the organised tour yesterday but started moving south today. The truck is a huge yellow beast!! It is full to capacity with 34 of us and t ..."
"The day before leaving Sao Paulo for Rio, I talked to a traveler who had been in Brazil for a while. I told him my basic route, and said that I was going to Rio the next day. ..."
"A four hour winding bus journey saw us arrive in the colonial town of Paraty. We were met by haphazard cobbles and horse and carts;certainly a change on Rio! We were enticed here o ..."