Paraty

Leaving the Brazilian side of Iguazu we had another long day of travel including a flight to Sao Paulo, the biggest city in South America - one of the biggest in the world - with a population of ... This could be seen from the plane as the city appeared to just stretch on forever into the horizon.
From Sao Paulo we had a 5 hr bus ride to the small town of Paraty where we would be spending the next night. We were fortunate enough to arrive on the last day of a week long festival where we were treated with pop-up food stalls, local beers and live music before heading to a club on the beach. The club was a slow build up, as people in Brazil seem to arrive at their own pace but by midnight it was a good ... for the night. The next day, we went for an orientation walk of the town where we learnt about the design of and purpose of the town, to export gold from the inland back to Portugal.Read more