Compared to our luxurious bus ride from BA to Iguazu, our trip to Florionapolis was horrendous. We crossed the border very smoothly indeed after deciding to take a taxi to Brazil, rather than 3 buses in the boiling sun, and chilled in the bus station for an hour and a half; the calm before the storm. The bus arrived and we boarded, slightly anxious as we had only booked semi cama due to the massive increase in cost in comparison with neighbouring Argentina. It wa...

We spent the rest of our time in Florionapolis chilling, enjoying the weather when it was good and getting lost in the sand dunes! The day had started off with reasonably good weather and although it looked the sun was going to come out, it was overcast enough to brave walking the sand dunes to the beach. We had been told it would take upto an hour so off we headed. When we reached the big hills of sand we turned off the main road and headed across. For a good wh...