Paraty, Brazil

Paraty was the first time we saw the beach since Lima. It was a three day drive covering 2000km from the Pantanal to get to Paraty and we stayed in two interesting places along the way both behind petrol stations. It was well worth the drive though with Paraty turning out to be an amazing location with a beautiful white sand beach. We stayed in a hostel right on the beach and were a short walk from the old town centre which was a very cool place.


This is the hostel which we stayed at. I took this picture as I was standing on the beach. Nathan was enjoying the upstairs bar area in this picture. Spent a bit of time up there. Was like a tropical resort except for the fact we were staying in a dorm.

Heres the view of the beach from where our hostel was.

This picture is taken looking down one of the streets of Paraty. The old Paraty town centre has been closed off to traffic so it makes for a pretty cool place to walk down. They still use donkey and cart on the street though.

Here is another picture of the streets. Paraty is right on the sea and when the city was designed 300 years ago they designed it so that at high tide the streets would flood and would be cleaned off by the sea with the sea residing again at low tide and taking all the filth away. Pretty cool design which was still evident but not to the same extent it had been in the past apparently. Not really ideal for the environment either.
A river also runs through Paraty so these buildings have been built right on the river. Very cool town that was also very different to the rest of the Brazillian towns I saw.