Heeey Readers! How are you? Fourth and final post about Rio Grande do Sul, my beautiful home state in Brazil.

What a cold day, lovely readers. With frozen fingers let's continue the series about my home state, Rio Grande do Sul - the southernmost state in Brazil, where climate can be freezing during the winter, where we have mountains and beaches, where people drink Mate and ride horses. You can check the first and second post down below:

Road Trip Serie (Part I) - Visiting Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

Road Trip Serie (Part II) - Visiting Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil - Welcome to Porto Alegre

Road Trip Serie (Part III) - Visiting Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil - Welcome to Cambara do Sul

When I first started this series I found inspiration on a road trip I did with friends back in 2016. The whole idea was to get off the beaten track, of showing cool tropical beaches, that everyone is so used to see over the internet when talking about Brazil.

In some way or another I think that this series has inspired people into exploring a different part of Brazil, I'm immenselly happy with the support and interest you guys have shown on the posts, if you ever decide to come to Brazil, don't hesitate into contacting me.

On the first three posts I brought you with me on a tour through Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, where we visited one of the most beautiful parks the Parque da Redenção and some of the historic buildings. After that we hit the road north-eastbound, where you've visited Vacaria and Cambará do Sul with its amazing national parks Aparados da Serra and Serra Geral.

On this post we'll leave Cambará do Sul through steep rural roads, going down the mountains back to the shore, where I'll show you the amazing beach called Torres. I won't have many words to describe this place, hope the images can speak for themselves.

Leaving - Cambará do Sul

^{Leaving Cambará do Sul.}

It's always sad finishing a trip, you start to have some sort of post-trip depression, you wish you could live there for some time. For the grand majority of my past trips I thought - Why not? What on earth tells that I need to be stagnated in the same place?

I guess that this trip was the beginning of a mindset adjustment in my life; after that I started travelling much more, leading to my contemporary self - a man who's just quit his job to pursue his freedom dreams. If I fail, well... it's just another fail.

Going through those sinuous dirt roads we were all silent, sometimes we'd say a joke and laugh, or we'd share snacks. As for me, I was thinking "this is what I want to do for a living, to explore".

Our destination could barely be seen from the mountains, sadly no one recorded that in a photograph, the thin ocean line on the distance.

Welcome to Torres

^{Torres as pictured by Jean Baptiste Debret in early XX century. Source: Wikipedia commons.}

Torres is a very touristic beach due to its unusual shore; well, it is at least very different from the other beaches in Rio Grande do Sul, which are in its vast majority long flat lines of sand.

The coast of Rio Grande do Sul is famous for being flat, a nightmare for navigation, but in Torres there are four high rocky formations standing in the sea. These vertical columns are almost 40 meters high and contain several caves created by the action of the waves over the years, locally called furnas. These rocky formations rise up from the sea creating an impressive scenario. That's where the name Torres comes from, it means in english "Towers" a name in allusion to the rock formations, uncommon in our coastal line.

When you first enter the Parque Regional da Guarita (Guarita Regional Park) this is what you'll see. This is a protected zone, thus, a small fee is charged for visitors, nothing expensive. Enjoy the view!

^{Guarita National Park.}

^{Watch your steps adventurer!}

^{Close view from one of the caves.}

^{The famous furnas.}

Torres in general is free of charge, apart from some protected zones. The beach itself is opened for everyone and it can receive up to 300.000 people every summer; it's also very popupar for surfing and other water sports.

On the other side of the beach you can go up another tower which will give you one of the best and scary views of the coastal line of Rio Grande do Sul, note how it's a vast sandy and flat line southbound, until you lose it from sight. This is the Atlantic ocean, the water has different colors, depending on the day; temperature for swimming can be quite cold all year long; and currents can become dangerous.

^{Coastal line of Rio Grande do Sul from Torres.}

^{Left tower in Torres.}

^{Don't do that at home.}

^{Nature is superb.}

After Torres we went back to Porto Alegre concluding our roadtrip. On this series you also visited Porto Alegre, Vacaria and Cambará do Sul, if you like those places and plan on going there be sure to contact me and I'll link you to more in depth articles on accomodation and restaurants. As you may know, those subjects are not my strongest hand, as I'm broke and usually sleep and eat as cheap as possible.

Hope you've enjoyed knowing a little bit about my state and stay tunned for my upcoming trips, where I'll explore more of Rio Grande do Sul. If you'd like to know more, feel free to leave a comment down below, I love talking to you all.

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Disclaimer: The author of this post is a convict broke backpacker, who has travelled more than 10.000 km hitchhiking. Following him may cause severe problems of wanderlust and inquietud. You've been warned.

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