Paradise Found!

I’d like to say we spent a lot of time reading our Brazil travel guide, or maybe we asked some locals, or surfed the internet and found it, but those would all be lies. Truth is, I looked at google maps and saw a town a good distance south (about 6 hours by bus) of Rio. It was named Ubatuba! sold. With a name like that how could it not be amazing. So we booked overnight bus tickets and left Rio around 11pm. After a 6 hour bus ride in the dark, through jungles, we arrived in Ubatuba at 5am. yep 5am. We hopped on the city bus and rode it to our hostel, the sun rose behind the jungle covered mountains as we approached our new home.

With the peak season of Carnaval behind us, the prices for lodging have dropped significantly… we’ve moved into the off season for travel in Brazil. Yes! =) Our hostel is nestled on a remote beach 14km out of the small town of Ubatuba. The rooms are clean, the common area is huge, internet is fast, and the beach is all ours.