Tamlyns on Tour
Grand Finale in the Amazon
The adventure we’d hoped for, but sensed we’d have to leave on our bucket list for a little longer, suddenly became a reality when promotional flights luckily gave us the pass we needed to disappear into the thick of the Amazon forest. We felt as though we were...
Fun and colourful Bahian beach towns
Our 1am bus from Lencois landed us in the city of Feira de Santana (apparently one of the most dangerous in the world, get us out of here quick!), where we changed buses for Itacaré on the east coast. Thus began our Bahian colourful coastal adventure... 1. Itacare A...
Lovely Lencois and the Chapada Diamantina
I don’t know where to begin with this post, because we had such a unique experience in the Brazilian Diamond Highlands! Famous for diamond mining long ago, it remains a special cluster of hidden gems. Taking a 5-hour bus from Salvador, we reached Lencois, a small town...
The juxtaposition of Salvador
Salvador is the capital of the state of Bahia. It’s big! As the 4th largest city in Brazil, after São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, it has around 2.9 million people living there. Poverty invades the city’s sprawl, noticeable as you travel in and out by bus....
Turtles in Praia do Forte
Wanting to experience another area of Brazil, we decided to fly up to Salvador and explore the state of Bahia. What a colourful welcome at Salvador airport! Having heard that, unfortunately, Salvador isn’t one of the safest places to stay, we first travelled north to...
Cool vibe in Rio de Janeiro
Famous for its breathtaking scenery and position on the South Atlantic coast, everyone thinks of Rio when conjuring images of Brazil. We stopped in the country’s second largest city, for a couple of nights, on our way up to Bahia. With only a couple of days to...
Paradise in Paraty
Historic Paraty (pronounced Parachi) is a preserved Portuguese colonial (1500-1822) and Brazilian Imperial (1822-1889) municipality with a population of about 36,000. After the discovery of the world's richest gold mines in 1696 in the mountains of Minas Gerais,...
Magical Ilha de Santa Caterina
We knew Brazil was huge, but it’s only by being in this staggering 8.5 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles) of country that its serious size has fully sunk in! Determining where to travel, on our budget, has been the most difficult of our travelling...
Wondrous waterfalls: Iguazu or Iguacu?!
Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls, depending on whether you’re in Argentina or Brazil, are waterfalls (cataratas) of the Iguazu River. They cascade over the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná. Together, they make up the largest...
Caiman in Los Esteros del Iberá
The second largest wetlands in the world (after the Pantanal in Brazil) are found in the northeast of Argentina. Such reserves house unique and rich ecosystems, so we were keen to visit one. Sadly, it appeared to us that accessing the wetlands in Brazil would be...
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