Campos do Jordão
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A piece of Bavaria in South America.
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or NOT.
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The weekend playground for the rich & famous from Sao Paulo
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The coast between Ilha Bela & Rio
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A coast of endless stunning scenery !
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Few people around the world are even aware that this amazing coastline exists !
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An endless string of bays, beaches and waterfalls.
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A thousand km of it !
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Ilha Bela
The coast south of Ilha Bela ( to Santos )
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Bertioga crossing, to the island of Santo Amaro.
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The Santos area
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Although the days of it's former repute as "a feverpit scumtown from hell" are long gone,
Santos is still not exactly an inspiring place.
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But It's definitely preferable to são Paulo.
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And once you get out to the Santos beach suburb of Guarujá...
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you are in the beach playground of the são Paulo crowds.
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This area has seen UNREAL development in the past couple of decades.
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Most of these hundreds of apartment blocks and minicities seem less than 10 yrs old...!!?
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I kinda expected to find something like this here on the SP coast.
After all a city of 20 million hardworking souls need somewhere to play,
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and build their dream homes.
South of Santos
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At Praia Grande starts a 50km stretch of uninspiring low class endless beach development.
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Then, the highway to Paraná.
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