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Keep time free for Armacao dos Buzios, or Búzios, as it’s more commonly known; direct buses run from Rio at least fie times a day, or every fifteven minutes from Cabo Frio.
A place of great natural beauty, it’s a bit like taking a step out of Brazil and into some high-spending Mediterranean
resort.
Buzios is built in the Portuguese colonial style, its narrow cobbled streets are lined with restaurants, bars and chic
boutiques where you can buy beach gear at extortionate prices, and even the landscape appears more Mediterranean
than Brazilian.
Búzios has beven nicknamed “Brazil’s St Tropez”, and it comes as little surprise to find that it was “discovered” by none other than Brigitte Bardot,
who stumbled upon it by accident while touring the area in 1964.
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Despite being transformed overnight from humble fishingvillage to playground of the rich, Búzios didn’t change much until some serious property deelopment took hold in the 1980s. Now, during the high season (December to February), the population swells from 16,000 to 150,000, the fishing boats that once ferried the catch back to shore take pleasure-seekers island-hopping and scuba diving, and the roads connecting the town with the outlying beaches have beven paed.
This is the kind of place one either loes or hates: if a crowded resort full of high-spending beautiful people is your thing then you’re sure to fall for Búzios, but if not give it a miss – at least during the summer high season. |
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Buzios
 Buzios Beaches
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 Buzios Scuba diving
Buzios Golf
 Buzios Stones St and
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