{"id":2078,"date":"2014-05-13T02:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/ilha-grande-rio-de-janeiro\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T02:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:17:53","slug":"ilha-grande-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/ilha-grande-rio-de-janeiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilha Grande - Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Much more than just an island.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crispelomundo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_4804-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"big island sloop\" data-id=\"2671\" class=\"wp-image-2671\" title=\"- Cris Around the World\"><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crispelomundo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ILHA-GRANDE-6-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"BIG ISLAND ACAI\u00c1 CAVE\" data-id=\"2668\" class=\"wp-image-2668\" title=\"- Cris Around the World\"><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crispelomundo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ILHA-GRANDE-5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ilha Grande Green Lagoon\" data-id=\"2670\" class=\"wp-image-2670\" title=\"- Cris Around the World\"><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crispelomundo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ILHA-GRANDE-1-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"BIG ISLAND (1)\" data-id=\"2667\" class=\"wp-image-2667\" title=\"- Cris Around the World\"><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilha Grande, one of my favorite places with its enchanting natural beauty, you can't help but fall in love. It's been a long time since I've been back to this place, which used to be a regular feature of my destinations. It was the first place I camped in my life and for seven consecutive years I was sure to be there, it was love at first sight.<br>Time passed, nostalgia set in and I decided to return, but this time I wasn't going camping! For the first time I decided to stay in a hostel in Vila do Abra\u00e3o, I wanted to get to know such an intimate place in a different way. I only had one Saturday and one Sunday, so camping would have been impossible because of the time I would have lost setting up the tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpwX-HgBGFw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I got up on Saturday and rushed to Mangaratiba, where the ferry to Abra\u00e3o (the cheapest sea transportation to the island) leaves from, but the traffic didn't help and I didn't manage to get there until 8 o'clock, when the ferry leaves on Saturdays, so I chose to go to Concei\u00e7\u00e3o de Jacare\u00ed, the closest port to Ilha Grande. I took a sloop, which is a bit more expensive, but much faster than the ferry and in no time at all we began to see the breathtaking beauty of the deep, crystal-clear waters, with dolphins putting on a show for visitors.<br><br>We arrived around 10 a.m., rushed to the pousada, dropped off our things and looked for tours. We chose one that left at 10:30 a.m. for Gruta do Acai\u00e1 and Lagoa Verde, two places I hadn't been to before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>TIP: It's easy to bargain for tours in low season and on normal weekends; this tour only takes place on Saturdays.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of the longest tours on the island. The cave is two hours away by boat, at the western end of the island. There is a fee to access the cave, as the entrance is on private property.<br>Yes, but can you get in by sea?<br>There is, but the entrance is three meters deep and six meters away, and it suffers a lot from tidal action, absurdly dark in the sea\/stream and full of sharp shellfish on its dark walls, so if you're not a professional diver, don't even risk it!<br><br>I went overland and saw how narrow the entrance was and the path to the cave's charms. I went down lying down, sort of sitting down, crawling until I got close to the water, obviously it was so dark that only touch and other people's flashlights helped me.<br>When I arrived, I put on my snorkel, dived in and felt supreme peace in a unique place. I saw that it was worth every effort to get to this place, which was one of the coolest of my life. A natural, fluorescent and beautiful aquarium! I didn't want to leave, but the tour had to continue. I left with even more difficulty, as I now had to climb and crawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>TIP: Be careful not to hurt your back if you go up sitting or squatting, as the space is really small.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We made our way to the next stop at the Green Lagoon and we were greeted by an abundance of fish in its crystal-clear green water, which lets you see the bottom even from a distance.<br><br>It's worth taking snorkeling goggles and swimming out to the rocks, the marine life is amazing and sometimes sea turtles show up.<br>I stayed there for hours, not even seeing the time go by, swimming and being amazed by so many beautiful things, and the next thing I knew, the sloop was honking its horn for us to continue the tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The next and last stop was Boipeba! A small and beautiful beach, but I confess that I felt a little sad when I went to take the trail to the beach, with pipes and full of sewage that did not match the place at all, I went on with tears in my eyes and arrived at the modest little beach!<br>I dived in and stayed there. To get back, I chose to swim to the sloop, I didn't want to witness the degradation of such a wonderful place.<br><br>The tour over, with many fond memories, I returned to the hostel, changed my clothes and it was time to enjoy the evening and have dinner!<br>The next day was packed with activities before we left, so let's go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Be sure to follow us on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/crispelomundo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and enjoy all our trips in real time! 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Foi o primeiro lugar que acampei na vida e durante sete anos consecutivos era certo estar por [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[718,719,720,721,722,139,140,723,724,725,726,250,727,728,39,252,396,729,730],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brasil","category-rio-de-janeiro","tag-abraao","tag-acaia","tag-angra-dos-reis","tag-barca","tag-boipeba","tag-como-chegar","tag-como-ir","tag-conceicao","tag-conceicao-do-jacarei","tag-costa-verde","tag-gruta-do-acaia","tag-ilha-grande","tag-lagoa","tag-lagoa-verde","tag-passeio","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-rj","tag-saveiro","tag-vila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispelomundo.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}