Canion do Itaimbezino
Against all the advice of our Brazilian friends, we decided not to stick to the main roads on the way back to Florianopolis from Canela, but to return through the Serra and visit the area of canyons around Cambara do Sul. This involved some difficult driving over rough red earth roads, but I'm glad we didn't miss this opportunity.

This particular canyon (and there are others) extends for 6000 metres and is 720 metres deep - in other words 'huge'. None of the photos I took do it justice. It was so deep that the shadows were very heavy and good photos were difficult to take, even though we were there in the middle of the day.

Its possible to walk all the way round, which evidently takes about 2 hours, but we didn't have the time and only the first bit of the track (to where the photo was taken from) had good access. Better than good. It was actually paved!