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Experience Florianopolis

A 5 days tour to experience the live culture of Santa Catarina Island: fish with the locals, dance capoeira, learn how to prepare caboclo coffee or spend a day at an oyster farm

Price Includes:

Transfers to/from airport on private basis with English-speaking guide
4 nights accommodation on bed and breakfast basis in a Pousada
two experiences of your choice.

Price does not include flights, travel insurance.

Additional Info

Minimum of 2
Fisherman’s life not available from May to June due to Mullet fishing season

Other Services

On top of its diverse nature and outdoors attractions, the Island of Santa Catarina has a local community which keeps its rich and intriguing heritage alive. This package offers you the chance to get to know the Ilhéu people and the places that makes Florianopolis a unique destination. Spend a day with a local fisherman, dance capoeira in a beautiful natural setting, visit an oyster farm and taste the local cuisine or exchange ideas and knowledge with local artists.
The possibilities are endless to meet and exchange life experiences with the local community in some of the most picturesque areas of Island.

Day 1: Arrival at Florianopolis airport or bus station. Transfer to the accommodation. Rest of the day free.

Day 2: Experience of your choice.

Day 3: Day free

Day 4: Experience of your choice.

Day 5: Transfer to airport or bus station

Experiences avaliable

Fisherman’s Life

Take part in an authentic traditional fishing. Fishermen from the community of Pântano do Sul will introduce you to the “trap fishing”, the removal of a fishing net, as well as collecting and classifying the fishes inside of a “baleeira”. A boat trip and typical lunch is included.

Capoeira Palmares

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that mixes magic and dance, as well as fighting. More than that, it is a cultural movement that keeps alive the history of Afro-Brazilians. This experience takes place outdoors in the beautiful Galheta beach, a nature reserve on the East Coast of the Island. To get there and back you will need to hike for approximate 40 min each way. You will be accompanied by members of the Cultural Association Ilha de Palmares. They you will give you a private lesson at the beach and share with you their knowledge of this fascinating art.

Oyster farms of Ribeirão da Ilha

Florianópolis in recent years became the centre for oyster production in Brazil. The old Azorean fishing village of Ribeirão da Ilha is one of the main areas for oyster farming on the Island. On this trip accompanied by a local producer, we will follow all the stages of the production then taste the local produce accompanied by the most Brazilian of drinks, the caipirinha. During the boat trip to the farm from April to October we may also visit the Cardos island. This little bay island has one of the largest concentrations of migrant Cayenne terns in South America that come here to nest. A short stop at the old village of Ribeirão on the way back makes it a perfect day trip.

Caboclo coffee

Florianópolis early settlers, the Azoreans, introduced subsistence farming to the island with coffee, cassava and sugar cane being the main fare. Around the island there are remains of many mills used on the processing of these products. We will visit the Andrades casarão, one of the oldest buildings in the area, in the picturesque Azorean freguesia de Santo Antônio de Lisboa. In the preserved mill we will participate in the whole preparation of coffee from roasting and grinding until the tasting of the authentic Caboclo coffee.