It is actually more of a coincidence that we are visiting Porto Alegre at all. When we booked the flight, we just thought, “that must be a nice route, from Rio de Janeiro to Porto Alegre”, and so it is. As our return flight is not until Saturday after midnight, we have 2 full days ...

Brazil is the land of sun, sea, beaches, blue skies and of course the rainforest… Of course we realize that this is not true and of course we know that sooner or later we will experience autumnal conditions on our journey south. In Florianopolis, we slowly started to experience this, but on our penultimate stop, ...

After a 15-hour bus ride, we arrive relatively rested in Florianopolis and take an Uber straight to the hostel. Although we are still too early to check in, we pass the time until midday with a delicious breakfast and a little planning for the next few days. Florianopolis was highly recommended to us by Raphael ...

After the somewhat strenuous (night) bus journey, we arrive in Foz do Iguazu, the Brazilian starting point for the famous Iguazu Falls, around midday. After Niagara and Victoria, this is the last of the three large – and world-famous – waterfalls that we have not yet visited. As the bus ride was a bit tiring, ...

The name Bonito (“pretty”, “beautiful” in English) actually says it all about the area we are heading to next. The area is mainly known for its pretty freshwater springs, which wind their way up through the limestone and flow into small streams. One of the main attractions is to float in the rivers armed with ...

Having already made several trips to the jungle and the Amazon in recent years, we are all the more interested in the “Pantanal”, which is advertised in a very different way. It is neither jungle nor jungle, but marshland with mainly private farms that now attract ecotourists. There are also said to be a large ...

We weren’t sure the whole time whether we should visit Sao Paulo or just leave it before we set off for the protected “Pantanal” swamp area. However, we find a good night bus connection that allows us to spend at least one day rummaging through Sao Paulo and so we drive from Ilhabela to Sao ...

Ilhabela is a popular weekend destination for people from Sao Paulo, so it’s no surprise that getting there is almost absurdly easy. We take the bus from Paraty to Sao Sebastiao, walk 10 minutes to the ferry port and get on the free ferry, which departs every 20-30 minutes. There we share a cab with ...

As the weather was already quite rainy in Rio and is expected to get worse over the next few days, we put our plan to travel to the car-free island of Ilha Grande on hold and head straight on to our next destination: Paraty. A small colonial town and starting point for exploring the bay ...

We’ve wanted to go to Brazil for a long time, but now is finally the right time. We have time during the Brazilian low season, Brazil no longer has an authoritarian government and the flights are cheap. What more could you want? Unfortunately, we miss Carnival by a week, but as we will find out ...