Another seemingly endless journey took us from Iguassu to Paraty. A beautiful coastal town just south of Rio. This journey was 22 hours by public bus via Sao Paulo. Some local idiots decided to make the journey feel even longer by shouting all night long & somehow creating the worst smell in the world – I honestly thought someone had taken a dump in the aisle. Not a lot of people were happy about that. So 22 hours and a couple of completely random ‘service stations’ selling unrecognisable food later we arrived. Relaxed in the hotel room while some Brazilian holiday makers chose to serenade us at full volume and fully out of tune whilst one of their kids kicked a football at our bedroom door for about an hour. Seeing as we were pretty tired we were clearly well up for this. I was glad to see later a discarded guitar with all the strings broken so someone had got there before me and put us out of our misery. We managed to pull ourselves together, have a lovely meal, drink lots of caipirinhas and dance to Kung Fu fighting into the early hours.
The next day we hit the local sites. Waterfalls, natural pools, swinging on Tarzan ropes etc. This was great. The truck journey into the rain forest was not for the faint hearted. The tour of the Cachaca distillery was awful but that’s not the point. End of ramble Start of pics.
