A two-days travel over Santa Catarina State

Santa Catarina is well known for its amazing beaches. In the summer (mainly January and February) the coast welcomes a lot of Brazilian and South American (maily Argentine) tourists. 

But that time I will talk a little about a travel that I've just performed over Santa Catarina's countryside. In Portuguese, this region is known as Mid-West and West of Santa Catarina. The highlight in this region is the people's origins, formed maily by German, Austrian and Italian descendants. Cities are very small, very well organized and the local economy is strong (based preponderantly on agriculture and livestock). 

As per map below, it was traveled around 500 km in this region. Roads are paved but in single lanes. Terrain is moutainouns which means roads with a lot of curves. The travel was made in June 16th and 17th 2016. Temperatures were very low (ranging from 3ºC to 12ºC) and heavy fog was our partner all over the two-days travel, 

Highlight is Treze Tílias, a notable small city with an architecture and people that remember something in Austria and Germany. In that city, it is a good idea to try the very nice brewery BierBaum.

Enjoy!