On Monday, we packed our bags, ate our fill of buffet breakfast, and headed to the bus station… off to catch a bus to Búzios (pronounced “Buthio”), a peninsula to the East of Rio with 23 beaches and a tropical climate.
We’d booked an Airbnb there for our last 4 nights in Brazil after a random conversation with a random lady at the hotel we stayed at in Iguazu Falls. On our second day, when we were just chilling and swimming in the pool before our flight back to Buenos Aires, a lady came up to us and asked us where we were from. Turns out she was from Yorkshire originally, but lives in Barcelona now. She and her family were visiting Argentina following the celebration of her son’s wedding to his new Brazilian wife. We met the new wife too, and she told us all about a great place called Búzios – where they had just got married! She said it was an easy bus ride from Rio, with a chilled seaside vibe and much safer than Rio city. And from that conversation a new plan was born!
We arrived mid-afternoon and walked from the bus station to the house to meet our host and be shown around. Mauro was brilliant, and really helpful. The kids wasted no time getting into the pool, and we were delighted to have a washing machine after 2 weeks of travel! Clean knickers at last!
We decided to leave the beaches and exploring to the next day and just enjoyed swimming, chilling out and watching TV together for the first time since we left the UK.
The next three days are a blur of beautiful sandy beaches, gorgeous views, swimming, reading books, walking and eating. Perfection.
Surely there is only one thing that would make this even better??? A bright orange beach buggy of course!
Costing us only £40 for 24 hours – this bad boy took us all over the peninsula and around the beaches and shops. It was so much fun!
In the late afternoon, we headed to one of the areas famous for its beautiful sunsets… and we weren’t disappointed. We followed that with a lovely meal out, and then it was time to head back and pack our bags for the last time.
What a beautiful place to spend our last few days.
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