Top Paraty Sightseeing Tours

See all the important landmarks in Paraty during this 2-hour guided sightseeing tour. Stroll in the pedestrianized historic city center of this Portuguese colonial town on the Caminho do Ouro (Gold Trail) with commentary from a local guide. Along with your group 25 people or less, visit the city's important colonial homes, museums and churches. Round-trip transportation from Paraty hotels is included.

Boat tour NETUNO II at 11:00 am, and enjoy the best of the Paraty Bay in one of the best schooner of the city. This tour has the duration of 5 hours making the most tipycal tour visiting 2 paradisiacal islands, Long island and Lagoa Azul, and 2 incredibles beaches Vermelha Beach and Lula Beach. Discover the magic of the brazilian sea while you swim between the color fishes. At the end of the gour, you will have coffee and fresh fruits for free. We wait for you!

Paraty is a popular coastal destination between Rio and Sao Paulo in Brazil. For a deeper understanding of this peaceful town, join this brief but diverse walking tour. Visit colonial churches, learn about Portuguese heritage including Portuguese royalty, see how sugar, gold, and coffee booms shaped the town, and taste cachaça, Brazil's national drink.

Welcomed by a Bilingual Tourist Guide at your Pousada, we take you to traditional communities and tourist spots in Jeep 4X4 due to terrains that require four-wheel drive. With narratives about the history of Colonial Brazil, a UNESCO Heritage Site in Mixed Site, and the historical importance of Paraty from the 15th century to the present day. For the visits ordered to the Indigenous territories; Caiçaras Villages; and Quilombo do Campinho, we support community-based tourism with knowledge, making the immersions allowed, as a conversation circle in the Indigenous Villages; experiences, arts, way of life and gastronomy in the Caiçaras villages; dances, rites and customs in addition to the restaurant at Quilombo do Campinho.

Stunning waterfalls, natural pools and lots of greenery await you on a delightful walk along the ancient Gold Trail. Knowing all that nature offers us in the Atlantic Forest, as well as sampling the region's sweets and cachaças, is an unmissable tour! Two waterfall complexes will be visited. The first is inside the Pedra Branca Farm, where the Usina and Pedra Branca waterfalls are located. After a refreshing bath we head to the Alambique Paratiana or Pedra Branca, where we will have a guided tour to know all the secrets of the production of the famous cachaças in Paraty, including the very famous GABRIELA clove and cinnamon! Then we will go to the second waterfall complex in Bairro do Penha. There are the 2 most famous waterfalls in Paraty: Tarzan and Tobogã. The latter famous for the natural slide of approximately 20 meters. We will have lunch at Tarzan's restaurant and return to the city.

Paraty Bay has 65 islands, it is a very special place to boat ride. It is protectec from the ocean waves by a peninsula named Juatinga, an ecologiacal reserve that preserves the rain forest and also traditional fishermen´s villages.  The tour goes to the most beautiful islands and coves. Places to see wildlife such as Mantimento Island where the boats give banana to marmots, iguanas and agutis. Other stop to spot the tourtles at Jurumirim Bay. If you want to see fish, the stop is at Comprida Island.  The ride and the stops can change according to you interest. If you want just to lay on the sand and relax, having a drink, we will take you there.

Surf is a sport to interact with the nature. According to the swell, wind and experience of the participants, we choose our destination with spots for begginers, intermediates and advenced. The best waves near Paraty are: Laranjeiras, Cepilho and Sono; and the ones near the border of Ubatuba, Camburi, Vila do Cambury, Praia da Fazenda e Brava da Almada. The access to the spots are drive (30 minutes) plus hike (30 minutes).

By bike is a great way to get to know a new place! Paraty has lot´s to offer to the bikkers, bike lanes, trails, dirt roads, waterfalls... The local guide tour has interesting information that you will not find on the travel book. By bike is eco friendly, fun and the best way to go to the waterfalls in the Serra da Bocaina Mountains.

Explore the charming neighborhood of Santa Teresa known as the Monmartre carioca with its secrets unknown to tourists and at the end of the day participate in a unique experience totally different from the activities that foreigners have contact in Rio. During the clay workshop you will be in a cozy atmosphere. It is creative that you will learn new techniques and have new artistic skills and will also produce your own souvenir by joining a worldwide DIY trend. Take home a piece that will perpetuate memories and be different from the traditional Chinese souvenirs that most tourists buy on the streets of Rio. * After finishing the clay piece it takes 10 days to finish the art in the studio (drying, burning in oven and enamel). If you are in Rio after this period, delivery to your hotel is free. Shipping to your country will be charged extra fee. * The workshop is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

This tour is for those who like adventure and empty beach. The day starts aboard a beautiful catamaran sailboat. We raise the sails and we leave straight to Bonete Beach. From there, we will take the trail to Fortalez Beach, passing through the incredible photogenic rocks of "Ponta da Fortaleza". Then we will visit the small Palmira Beach, a piece of paradise that few people know. This tour can be adapted according to clients interests. Here at Brazil Routes we always think of you first. In this tour you will understand why the Green Coast of Ubatuba is considered one of the places with the most preserved Atlantic Forest in the world. We will visit beaches that can only be accessed by sea or by trail. Palmira Beach has no trail. All are surrounded by lush forest and, in the sea, we always find colorful fish and turtles. With luck we will see dolphins. With great luck we will see whales.

To know the Caminho do Ouro is to enter the history of the formation of Brazil. There, they began to conquer what the bandeirantes at the time called Sertões, so indigenous people, slaves and colonizers passed through these paths. What we are today went through this trail.