Cruise Port Guide · 13 cruises visit Paraty →
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Sail a private schooner across the jewel-green waters of Paraty Bay, dropping anchor at secluded islands, crystalline coves and snorkel-perfect coral gardens that day-trippers never reach. This is the quintessential Paraty experience — unhurried, sun-drenched and utterly breathtaking.
Step inside one of South America's best-preserved colonial towns with an expert private guide who unlocks the stories behind the cobblestone lanes, gold-rush-era churches and baroque mansions of Paraty's UNESCO-listed historic centre. A living 18th-century stage set unlike anywhere else in Brazil.
A private 4×4 Jeep expedition through Atlantic Forest trails to Paraty's legendary natural waterfall slides — including the famous Tobogã rock toboggan — and the seven cascading pools of Sete Quedas. Pure exhilaration wrapped in jungle grandeur.
Glide by private boat into Saco do Mamanguá, a breathtaking 14-kilometre fjord of still, mirror-like water enclosed by vertical Atlantic Forest mountains — Brazil's sole tropical fjord and one of the most strikingly beautiful waterways in South America.
Journey to a working 17th-century sugar-cane estate along Brazil's historic Caminho do Ouro (Gold Trail) for an intimate private tour of one of Paraty's oldest artisanal cachaça distilleries, followed by a farm-to-table lunch that celebrates the flavours of the Costa Verde.
Escape to Trindade, the wild Atlantic Forest coastline village south of Paraty, and hike to Lagoinha do Leste — a breathtaking lagoon-and-beach combination backed by mountain forest that consistently ranks among Brazil's most beautiful and untouched beaches.
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