Sunday, 2 March 2008

Paraty

We spent 3 days in Paraty ... Ray's favourite place in Brazil. It was the coastal town at the end of the gold trail; but then got abandoned as a trading centre a couple of hundred years ago. So the buildings (and cobbled streets ... no vehicles) are more or less as they were in the 18th and 19th century.
We stayed in a very nice pousada: every chalet overlooked the sea.


Then we went on Tony's boat for a day out in the perfect swimming waters, lovely islands and (for Malcolm) spectacular birdwatching terrain!


Here we are; four intrepid travellers about to descend into strange caves:








We emerged unscathed and went swimming. Tony presented Malcolm with this star fish


... and here is Ray, in hois element, looking out across the water whilst lying on Tony's boat











1 comment:

NormanP said...

Hello you two.
Being clever people, you realised that "Paraty" was an anagram of the name of your blog, didn't you?
Norman