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Well we have been pretty poor over the past few weeks with updating on here, mainly due to a lack of reliable internet access and all the fun we have been having, and maybe a little of laziness thrown into the mix as well! We will try and rectify the situation quickly!
We left Rio and took a bus down the coast to a place called Angra dos Reis. The road from Rio to Angra heads south traversing the Costa Verde (green coast), treating you to some spectacular views. To the right rows of mountains tower above the road, each one painted green with Atlantic forest, and to the right a mixture of cliffs, pristine beaches, an ocean littered with groups of tropical islands, and bizarely lots and lots of oil tankers - I`m only being so descriptive as we didn`t take any pictures!
Once we reached Angra dos Reis we took a local ferry out to the main town on Ilha Grande, the island itself looks incredible, a piece of the Costa Verde ripped off and placed an hour and a half out to sea. Once we were there we realised that we had forgotten the name and location of our hostel, but after a long walk around town and a trip to an internet cafe we managed to find it - and as we were the only people there we got a ensuite double room for the price of a dorm, bargin.
I won`t go into a lot of detail about what we did, needless to say on a tropical island we went to the beach a lot, but I will elabourate on a few of our more memorable days out. There are no vehicles aowed on the island (and no roads to drive them anyway) so to get anywhere you have to either walk or catch a boat. The first full day there we took the boat around the island to `the best` beach there, and to be fair it was a very nice 2km strectch of untouched coast with nice sand, a warm sea and (for Jack) not too much sun. The way out the sea was very calm, however on the way back it was choppy to the point where the waves were the same height as our (admitadly quite small) boat, and despite only being 20m from the coast it did provide a little excitent - especially when we started taking on water!
Dodgy boat journeys asside, the lack of vehicles provided the opportunity/motivation to walk through the joungle roads. During which we managed to see some natural pools, a waterfall and monkeys, not to mention some pretty nice beaches!
Hi Thida and Jack, sounds like you are relaxing into traveller mode. We had not looked at the blog for a couple of weeks so it's good timing that we checked this afternoon and you had just blogged! There are not too many comments from your hundreds of viewers maybe a little encouragement would help?
ReplyDeleteWe have just returned from filming at the Giants Causeway and I wish it had been more blue like in your pics rather than Storm grey! Where do you head next and when do you get to Curitiba I am looking forward to you impressions of the city. Send us a photo of your map! all the best Jon Kate and Rose