Getting There (Is Half the fun?!) Flashing us back to India or Nepal, getting to Ilha Grande was the complete backpacker package to welcome us back to our fast travel month of August 2023. We don’t have days like this very often (anymore), so it’s always good to have a reminder of why we don’t. 🤣 It was complete with sweat-on-sweat…
Getting There & Where we Stayed From Ilha Grande, we took the local ferry ($5/each) to get to Angra Dos Reís, followed by a local bus to Paraty further west of Rio de Janiero. Paraty is one of those places typically known as "a colonial gem" by local and international tourists alike. Because of this, it was also a bit…
Getting There From Paraty, we boarded our first long distance bus in Brazil and had some major sticker shock at the price…far from the norm we’re used to in Latin America. For a 4.5 hour route, it cost 215 Reais or $44 for the two of us to Rio de Janiero. We then traveled an additional 1.5 hours north to…
From Letitica, there are two ways out of the Amazon. The easy way we came in (by plane) or the hella more interesting way (by river.) Within those water options, there are two boats: One is the expensive “speed” boat, which still takes 36 hours to get to Manaus (the nearest city in Brazil with an airport) and costs about $160…
At last! After three nights sleeping cozily near hundreds of people in a hammock on a boat, we had arrived to the Brazilian Amazonas capital of Manaus, also known as “The Gateway to the Amazon” which can only be reached by boat or air. The city, most notable for its peculiarly placed pink opera house and Amazon research centers, sits on…
