Brazil beaches: Our 3 days in the hippie beach town of Jericoacoara, Brasil

After the amazingness of Lençóis we continued our tour of Brazil beaches! The next stop on our itinerary was Jericoacoara, which is a little hippie beach town on the north coast of Brasil. The drive from Barreirinhas (where we stayed when visting Lençóis) to Jeri was supposed to take close to 7 hours, so we decided to split…

Our four days of touring the Lençóis Maranhenses landscape!

Wow, just wow. Honestly, I don’t know where to start this post, because I still feel at as much a loss for words as I did when I first laid eyes on the stunning landscape of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in the north of Brazil. This literally has to be one of the most beautiful and unique and…

Being quintessential Rio tourists – visiting Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf mountain!

Before we left Rio de Janeiro we knew there were two must-do, tourist-y, activities that we had to check off our list.I know seasoned travelers can be wary of super popular tourist destinations, and we include ourselves in that bucket. However, I also subscribe to the mentality that popular destinations are often popular for a reason and…

April 2018: Monthly Roundup

So, I’ve seen other travel bloggers do this (a monthly recap or roundup or whatever it may be called!) and I really like the idea – taking a minute to pause and reflect on the month, and record down little tidbits from travel and life that may otherwise go unnoticed. So, here we go, the first monthly round…

Three days in Ubatuba, Brasil – a beach lover’s haven!

Note: I have a working phone, woohoo! The whole thing went kaput and I had to get a totally new handset – the folks at the Apple Store told me that everything on it was gone (which included all our Ubatuba pictures) but somehow they have showed up on my new device. I’m not asking questions and just…