After an evening in rain sodden Sao Paulo we headed to the bus station on the wednesday to buy our tickets to Paraty for Thursday. However when we got to the station it turned out that the buses were sold out until Sunday, and we would miss 3 days of paid for carnival! There were 5 seats left of a bus elaving at 10ppm that night and getting in at 4am to Paraty, and despite having paid for our hostel for that night in sao paulo we had to buy the tickets.
So we headed to Japan town for lunch which was cool and pretty but pouring with rain, and back to our hostel to pack and get ready for the bus.
We emailed the Paraty hostel to ask if we could wait in reception from 4 am as we didn't fancy a stint in the bus station. And we headed to the bus station for the 6 hour buse.
So the only problem upon arrival was that the bloody town has no taxis, we had no map and the town was deserted! Ah but the genius idea from our friend Rob, for John to take a picture on his phone of the google map on my phone when still in wifi area meant we had some idea.
The town was eerily dead when we stumb;ed off the bus at 3.50am, apart from some hobos and crazys and stray dogs. We started the hunt for the hostel and began to realise that we were being followed by dogs for at least 15 mins which was a tad unsettling, but we found the hostel thanks to Johns map reason skills as i had gone a bit nervous as three dogs and a hobo were lurking!
So at 4.30 we settled in to the wait for our rooms (1pm) and I did some serious internet surfing for about 3 hours! But at least we were in Paraty and ready for carnival.
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