Parque Municipal da Muritiba — Attraction in Região Geográfica Imediata de Seabra

The park is really nice, but I wouldn't go back here again. The park mafia is there. We paid 20 reales each for entry, it's fine, it's standard practice. We were also warned that because we were without a guide, we couldn't swim (?!) or take pictures of nature (???). Although the road to Cachoeirinha is marked, and as far as we have read travelers' reviews, easy to find, we were not allowed to go there. Already behind the ticket booths there were guides who blocked our path, started filming us and threatening to call the police. Even though we don't speak Portuguese, they kept trying to explain something to us. We are tourists, we didn't want any trouble, so we headed down the river towards the town. We took a dip in the river with the locals near the town and had a nice time. My friend and I travel around the world a lot, we like to hike and visit nature parks. We have never seen such a mafia anywhere before. The nature is beautiful, but the tourist scam...

I'm not Brazilian, I'm a tourist who came with cash money only, I don't have PIX nor a bank card. There's a visitor's stand at the entrance where the lady kindly advises there's a "voluntary contribution" to access... When I showed her the money bill she replied that unfortunately they don't accept cash, and I was denied the entry!!! There's no voluntary contribution, IT IS MANDARORY. And now reading other traveler's reviews which I didn't do before coming... OMG I can't believe how they ruined a touristic place by trying to take advantage of tourists money, I work with tourism in my country and this is all what we try to...

We accidentally stumbled upon this path whilst walking on a nearby trail. Immediately, multiple guides started to stare at us and were very rude and we felt very uncomfortable. One lady clearly took a photo of us as we walked by. 5 minutes later another lady stopped us, took a photo and threw us out of the path and we had to pay 20 reals for being in the park (which we didn’t mind).

However, the treatment of the staff was very unpleasant. Furthermore, they charge 200 reals for a guide to explore the majority of the path. Complete rip off. Charging such an obscene amount will have the opposite effect of attracting tourism....