RAFA - AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER

This work gives me a chance to improve my photography skills, I love taking pictures and Paraty is one of my biggest inspirations for so many images that once in a while you see in my blog or you simply get from me when I write my emails. I like sharing what my eyes see when I am visiting so many different places.

I am not a professional, I am too far to reach such a level, but I am soing my best. In my tours you can also practice this wonderful job. I have all the patience in the World and we can help each other. 

PARATY has such a unique architecture...barroc white constructions combining with the colourful vegetation...the blue sky, different people's style. 

This colonial city gives you a lot of inspiration and the city has a lot of personality. I love taking pictures of places with personality.

 
Pictures are my great passion...I love it...and I love exploring every corner...and the city is romantic, the city still keeps its mistery and we can find out more about Paraty together!

Oh well, you know...I am ready to meet you here. My name is Rafael, I am a tour guide for almost 13 years, so proud to use all this knowledge for your total fun in Brazil!

Rafael Torres Lopes
Tour Guide and Travel Planner

BACK TO PARATY - ONE OF MY BEST SPOTS AND FOR ONE DAY

Brazil is a big country...it is hard to choose where to go. I am a traveller in my own country, I love exploring my land and each time I travel I find a wonderful place that we can explore and have lots of fun. One of those places I keep on going many times and luckly it is very close to Rio...Well, 4 hours only...but 4 hours of watching beautiful landscapes bordering the ocean.

PARATY...it is just one city that makes the State of Rio de Janeiro one of the most beautiful states of Brazil. And a clear option here when you have a trip to Brazil...YOU WILL COME TO RIO, and once you meet me, we will have fun, lots of fun!!!!

So this time I am not talking about Rio, but what you can do when you have more days in Rio and PARATY FOR ONE DAY IS ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE TO DO, possible and soooo exciting!!! :))))))

If you are a real traveller, you will enjoy visiting virgin beaches, meeting small communities lost in the past, places where "power energy" is still a dream for people's future, beaches where sailors just picked up to spend a safer night protected by pristine inlets with lush green forests...places that simply by lying down in the wet sand and forget about all the troubles in life when just the sound of birds give you answers....

ISLANDS OF PARATY so possible to reach...all you have to do is renting a boat and the fishermen will take you to his favorite spots and in Paraty there are more than a hundred islands. And I know some and we can have lunch in so many fishermen communities in these islands!!!

Of course, Meghan and Vance agreed to visit Paraty for one day and I had to make 3 days tour in one day tour, and we made it...Coming to Paraty you will have to walk all the cobbled stones streets and alleys. It is time to learn about the interesting and full of gossips history of Brazil; and Paraty is one of the best SCHOOLS for that. Visiting Paraty is like visiting a little piece of Portugal, visiting Paraty will help you to understand more of the fascinating portuguese barroc. So charming, so fascinating and so tempting for its gorgeous and very well taken stores in super old buildings. 

A little walking time in Paraty will make your day in Rio something so unique and you will remember what I always say to you. RIO IS YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME!

It is a tour where your guide sleeps, it is a tour where you laugh alot, it is a tour where you just realize how wonderful life is when you are only with friends; it is also a chance you will have to see the real soul of Brazil.

My canadian friends had a wonderful time and I must say that I loved all the time I spent with them. You can easily spend the whole day in Paraty but you can also have the option to spend more than one night in Paraty, then your adventure will be way more complete!

If it is okay for you to spend 4 hours on the road (knowing that you will see wonderful views) then we can do it.

Rafael Torres Lopes

Tour Guide and Travel Guide

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COMING TO RIO???? GIVE ME ONE DAY FOR A WONDERFUL SURPRISE - TARITUBA

When people come to Rio they normally spend 3 days, sometimes a week. Enough time for you to relax in one of the most famous city in the World. No doubt, Rio is quite famous in the planet and I am so happy to right in the city that you choose to visit!

But when you come, you know that you will see Copacabana, you will visit the Christ and take the cable car in the Sugar Loaf. Normal Stuff, traditional and classic places...MY REQUEST...One day for the unusual, one day to see places that very few people see when people come to Rio...

ONE DAY TO SEE UNIQUE PLACES...and Rafa will take you to Tarituba!!!

TARITUBA???? WHAT IS TARITUBA??????

Tarituba is a very small village in the way to the famous and charming historical town of Paraty. A pleasant stop to forget about the buzz of a big city, a quick stop to see beautiful green surorundings and enjoy the calm rhythm of a fishing village!!!

All the way heading south of our State is full of stunning landscapes. But this needs one very big effort, waking up early and spend the whole day seeing new places, experiecing a different daily life and getting back to Rio late at night, unless if you want to spend the night in Paraty (or in Tarituba, lovely cottages available there) and return to Rio in the next day.

Tarituba means fun and opens your heart for new adventures!!! :)

Meghan and Vance, my wonderful friends from Saskatoon, the SMILES OF THE PRAIRIES, that is what they are!!! :)

We had a blast in our quick stop in Tarituba and a wonderful time in PARATY.

So if you have one day free and you need to experience unique places...well, I can do it, and all the road to Paraty can give you LOOOOOOADS OF FUN. It will be 4 hours of laughing and fascinating photos. A journey to the spirit of Rio is getting yourself lost in our paradises!

Many thanks to my royal couple from Saskatchewan (uff took me a while to learn how to write it) that shared this lovely day to the unknown places of Rio, we are naturally travel explorers and it is always a pleasure to see new places and just enjoy life!!!

This is what I love doing in my tours. ENJOYING LIFE and you are more than welcome to see more of Rio with me!

Tarituba and Paraty are places that you should see and tell to all your friends that they should experience Rio by the EYES OF A LOCAL! :)

Rafael Torres Lopes

Tour Guide and Travel Planner