It's was a 2 hour ferry back from Ilha Grande to Angra dos Reis where we rejoiced at the sight of an ATM! From there we got a public bus to Paraty which took about 2 hours.
We had planned on staying for 3 nights in Paraty but because of a festival taking place in the town the hostel prices were too expensive. Waaay too expensive.
When we arrived there was a huge marquee, a stage and hundreds of stalls set up for the Cachaça Festival. Cachaça, as it turns out, is the main ingredient of Caipirinhas - to which we have grown very partial!
Our hostel, Geko, was ridiculously overpriced for the weekend but so was everywhere else, even the campsites were full (who would have guessed an alcohol festival would be so popular?!), but Geko could not have been closer to the beach without getting wet and our breakfast was served right out on the sand.
Paraty is so gorgeous, all white buildings and cobbled streets, it was like something out of a movie.
Unfortunately, no matter what flavour we tried, cachaça did not float our boat unless it was inside a caipirinha! So instead of sampling its million flavour variations we opted to spend the day on something that was loosely named a Catamaran, but we chose to call The Love Boat!
Whatever it was it served us well with a multi-tasking skipper/barman who brought us beach-hopping and swimming in perfect turquoise water, all the while mixing cocktails in his makeshift bar! What a life!
Paraty was buzzing that evening with live music streaming through the tiny streets and lots of cachaça happy people (can you see them in the background?!), I felt like I was on holiday on my holiday!
But after just 2 days it was time to leave Paraty, all too soon.
We have only a few days left in South America as our flight from Santiago to Melbourne is edging ever closer!
Next stop: Sao Paolo
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