Party in Paraty
Trip Start
Mar 29, 2007
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7
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Trip End
Apr 18, 2007
Paraty,
Brazil
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
We arrived in Sao Paolo and had a few hours wait for our second bus - 6 hours!! to take us to Paraty. Everyone was very tired but we all got a lot of sleep.
Just arriving into Paraty when there was a checkpoint with armed guards (seriously armed - huge guns). The bus stopped and one of them got on and spoke very seriously in Portugese. No one knew what was happening. The next thing we are all being told to get off the bus - men on one side - women on the other. The men were then put up against the bus with their arms and legs spread and the guards started to search every one of them very vigourously!! It was bizarre - we were all just woken out of our sleep and this was happening. Then they put all their day sacks on the ground and got a sniffer dog to smell them. They checked the bus and everyones luggage then we were allowed to go on. Very very strange.
Arrived pretty late into Paraty and went straight to the hostel. Very cool place - pretty similar to Colonia. We all had a shower and got ready for dinner. Went to a brilliant restaurant with great food and a live band. After that there wasnīt really much else to do so we all headed back to the hostel and listened to music and chatted until 5.30 am!!!! Probably the best night so far. Brilliant stuff.
The next day we were all supposed to meet at 10.00 but obviously that didnīt happen. We didnīt get up until 1.00 so we just took a walk around the place. Very beautiful - cobbled streets with tiny shops. Then we went for lunch and walked to the beach. Just relaxed there for a while then walked around a bit more.
We all met up for dinner again later then bed early - heading to Ilha Grande Island next - canīt wait..
Cobbled streets
