Carnival in Camboriu

Our first stop in Brazil was a place called Balneario Camboriu, a popular beach resort town on the southeast coast about 90mins north of Florianopolis.  Joel and Sabrina, friends we met in London, had organised a flat for us to rent for a month so we were looking forward to chilling out by the beach.

We arrived at carnival time, so the first weekend we spent 3 days at different beautiful beaches swimming, drinking beers and getting tans.  You know you're in a great country when you can drink on the beach and it's not only tolerated, it's encouraged by getting drinks delivered to your sun lounger.  Brilliant.  

The town was packed - the normal population of about 100,000 swells to over a million during summer - and for 5 nights there was live music on the beach, with well over 100,000 people dancing and drinking.  There were no street parades or anything like the big city carnivals, but it was still a good atmosphere and heaps of people around.

Our month here was pretty similar to our time in Cabo Polonio - swimming, walking, sleeping and chilling out.  It was nice to slow down for a while, but we were getting itchy feet and ready to travel again after a month.  So we decided to swap the relaxed beach living for the hecticness of Rio.