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Colonial Paraty

Written by on March 1, 2009 – 9:46 am12 Comments | 9 Read this
Boats On Praia Do Portal

Boats On Praia Do Portal

Fate is a great provider.

We ended up in Paraty totally by chance. One night, in La Paloma (Uruguay), we went to the local inter­net café to copy some pages of a travel guide we did not have and that we had bor­rowed from another backpacker.

The owner of the inter­net café was Brazil­ian. He asked us where we would spend the Car­ni­val, and at the time, we were not sure. He told us to check out Paraty, a small city four hours from Rio de Janeiro. We did not know any­thing about it. Yet, we went… and we were not disappointed.

Local Church

Local Church

Streets Of Parati

Streets Of Parati

Local Fish For Sale

Local Fish For Sale

Yummy Coconuts

Yummy Coconuts

Kids Diving From The Bridge

Kids Div­ing From The Bridge

The River

The River

Street Of Paraty

Street Of Paraty

Boats Near The Sea

Boats Near The Sea

Colonial Houses

Colo­nial Houses

Colonial Houses

Colo­nial Houses

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  4. Col­or­ful Boca
  5. Samba De Janeiro!

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  • Zhu says:

    @Agnes — We were glad we found it ;-)

    @Bill Miller — It was def­i­nitely a great sur­prise for both of us, espe­cially we really didn´t know what to expect!

    @RennyBA — I know! Word of mouth… con­nect­ing with peo­ple, you know that, right? ;-)

    @shionge — Yes, and very pic­turesque as well!

    @Scarlet — Love the way you say it! :lol: Maybe the key is to build nice places of wor­ship ;-)

    @expatraveler — I´m amazed — it does look like spring! I thought you took the pics last year or something.

    @Sidney — I thought I was hid­den :lol:

    @Khengsiong — Mostly Rio and Bahía, but a lot of cities have their own car­ni­val as well. Wait and see… ;-)

    @Bluefish — I don´t have too much time, because I don´t have my lap­top. But I guess I´m addicted to blogging!

    @Max Coutinho — Muito obri­gada! (see, my por­tuguese is improv­ing :lol: )

  • Seraphine says:

    it looks beau­ti­ful from your pho­tographs. i love the sky and the fluffy clouds. it looks warm, the kind of sleepy warm where you want to put your feet in water and daydream.

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