Buzios, Brazil

On May 4th we left Rio and took a 3 hour bus ride to Buzios, Brazil. Buzios is a peninsula, in between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. It has about 17 different beautiful beaches, and it is one of the best known beach resort areas in Brazil. It has tons of bars, restaurants, night clubs, hotels and shops. We arrived and went directly to the beach!

We stayed on the beach to see the beautiful sunset:

The boats and the islands reminded me of my time in Halong Bay (Vietnam). The boats almost look like the boats in Vietnam and in Thailand (with the pointy front). It was so beautiful!

The following day we went on a trolley tour of the peninsula. Buzios is a really ritzy area! The shops and restaurants are really expensive, and some of the beach houses are incredible! Going on the tour really gave me a chance to see the big differences in income/living conditions. Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world, where the gap between the rich and the poor is really large. Many of the football players and CEOs of big companies have beach houses in the area, and some of them sell for around $6 million CAN! We saw a number of helicopters, and some of the houses have private helicopter pads!

Below is a photo of one of the private residences with a pool overlooking the water.

Although there is tons of greenery and vegetation, the area gets very little rain, and so there are a lot of really large cactus all over the island.

Everyone here has cute little convertibles:

We spent the afternoon cruising around on a boat.

We stayed on the boat until sundown:

Our boat:

Overall Buzios was an amazing city and I had a great time there! If i ever come back to Brazil I will definitely make another trip to Buzios!