Catching up on blog posts from our last trip…Taiwan ones coming soon! Where? When initially planning our trip, one of the big questions was around Fernando de Noronha- should we go? Located about 350 Kilometres off the northeast coast of…
Pipa Beach
Little House in Pipa Despite considerable beach time already, we were still ready for more. The easy two hour journey from Natal turned into one of our worst, as we had to take a small, non-air conditioned bus in extremely…
Broken Canoes, Dune Buggy Photoshoots and the Southern Cross
Guest post by Jonathan Baggs I’m interested in astronomy, so one of the things I really hoped to do when we were in Brazil was see the Southern Cross constellation. Whenever we’d been able to see the stars I was…
Love Tunnels and Dead Sandals in Icarai
Getting to Icarai de Amontada After the bustling tourism scene of Jericoacoara, we were ready for a quieter scene. The fishing village/small beach town a few hours east, Icarai, sounded exactly what we needed. Like all great places, it wasn’t…
Ilha Grande- Penal Colony turned Island Paradise
It wasn’t easy to leave behind our beautiful apartment in Rio for the prospect of four nights of camping, but we knew Ilha Grande would be worth it. A formal penal colony, it was now a tropical paradise accessible from…
Rio de Janeiro- Get in Line to Sea the View
Guest Post by Cheryl Williams Arriving in Rio in the evening we planned on taking an uber to our accommodation, but that proved to be a bit more difficult than expected. We realized that they won’t pick you up right…
Steep Streets and Steeples in Ouro Preto
Guest post by Jonathan Baggs Escaping the Rain with our First Acai We arrived in Ouro Preto from Belo Horizonte in the mid afternoon heat. The Rodoviaria (bus station) was on the edge of town and we planned to go…
Two Days in Belo Horizonte
Frustrating Airbnb Waiting for the bus in Sao Joao del Rei after a taxi ride from Tiradentes, we messaged our airbnb host to get instructions for our apartment in Belo Horizonte. She informed us that the place we had booked…
Walking in the Rain & Waiting for the Train in Tirandentes
Tirandentes hadn’t made it onto our original itinerary. Not because it wasn’t worth visiting, but because we couldn’t determine a route that didn’t have us backtracking between Petropolis, Belo Horizonte (Brazil’s 3rd largest city), Tirandentes and Ouro Preto before making…
Petropolis: a Summer Retreat for Cariocas
After camping in Paraty, we were all excited to move in for three nights to a spacious three bedroom apartment in Petropolis. About two hours north of Rio, Petropolis has long been a summer escape for wealthier Cariocas (people from…