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The apartment gives you all the privacy you need. It has its own bathroom/shower, water heated by gas, a spacious room, and cooking facilities in the main room. If you like there is another extra huge kitchen, fully equipped, shared with others if you decide to have a company. It is located in a unique place, in the south of Santa Catarina Island, inside a research project, just by an amazing freshwater lake. The apartment is located inside a project, totally safe, between a freshwater lake and a great beach. There are other shared rooms for ecovolunteers, researchers and students. You can go walking to the beach, shopping or to a local fishermen village for a local seafood restaurant. If you like you can even join the staff of the project to feed the neotropical otters orphans kept in captivity for recovering. What you pay for the place also helps the project. Besides your own apartment, you have also a shared fully equipped kitchen if you like to meet other people, another great room with a fireplace, library, and TV, in an old mill. The garden is amazing and there is a great place for a barbecue. You also have free access to the Animal Refugee where you can see the otters in captivity. It is a Scientific Breeding place for research. You can talk to the students and researchers and learn more about this amazing species. It is a great place to meet great people. There are people from all over the world that come to work with the Brazilian Neotropical Otter. If you are there it is because you have something in common. All our guests are special, love nature and want to make sure that what they are paying is helping the conservation of ecosystems and endangered species. You can meet people in many different places such as in the shared kitchen, in the old mill, or just join a talk in the Visitation Center. We give regular talks and all are welcome. You can go walking to a fishermen village, very traditional, where you will find local crafts, seafood restaurants, and a healthy restaurant and market. You can catch a bus or huber to anywhere, such as Ribeirão da Ilha, where the colonization of the island took place. There you can see the historic houses and a road with hundreds of seafood restaurants of all kind. The local oyster and mussel farms are very famous in this area, and you can taste them in the local restaurants and bars. If you decide to stay within the protected area where the room is located you have plenty of options, walking along trails in the forest, bathing in waterfalls, photographing the wildlife, or kayaking in the lake. It's easy to go to town or to Lagoa da Conceição. You can catch a bus or huber, rent a car and go to many places around the island. If you decide to walk you also can go to many different places in the south of the island. The room is located within a protected area, surrounded by the Atlantic Forest, but only 10 minutes walking to the bus stop, local markets and restaurants. You will be between a fresh-water lake and the Atlantic Ocean. You can go to a spectacular beach, just walking, and coming back to swim in a lake of fresh-water. The lake is also great for fishing or kayaking to watch the local biodiversity of vegetation, birds, and mammals.
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Brazil · State of Santa Catarina · FlorianópolisGot questions?
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