Camping Ilha Redonda

When you’re not bathing at the mineral springs or catching fish from the Uruguay River for dins, you can find out about the local area’s experience with colonisation in the 1930s and 1940s at the Casa da Memória de São Carlos museum a 40-minute drive away. Once you've thoroughly explored Santa Catarina, it might be time to move on to your next destination in Brazil: it’s a seven-hour drive from here to the unmissable Iguaçu Falls, the world’s biggest waterfall system, on the border with Argentina, and nine hours to the beaches of Florianopolis on the eastern coast in another direction. Alternatively, guests can check out and head west into Paraguay or south into Uruguay to tick a couple more countries off the list on their tour of South America.