Aparados da Serra National Park

Cambara do Sul is the nearest town to the national parks Aparados da Serra and Serra Geral. These parks are visited mostly by Brazilians and very little by foreigners, even though I found them to be extraordinary. The two parks are great canyons formed by towering rock walls, surrounded by Atlantic forest and Araucarias trees. In Aparados da Serra National Park you'll find the canyon Itaimbezinho ("stone cut out" in Guarani), which measures 720 m deep and six kilometers long.

During my visit there was a natural phenomenon caused by high humidity and high temperatures that kept me from seeing the full extent of the canyon, because at the time the canyon looked like a factory of fog.