Showing posts with label beaches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beaches. Show all posts

Tuesday

Nude beaches in Brazil

Galhetas Beach - Brazil Photo: Christian Knepper


Brazil has more than 2000 beaches.


Some are nude beaches.


Want to know what are the best nude beaches ?


Click here to see a page with the best nude beaches in Brazil (in portuguese).


Or click here to see nude beaches page in english (Google automatic translator).





Monday

Paraty - historical city with beautiful beaches



Built between the sea and the mountains, Paraty is one of the most fantastic destinations of the Brazilian coast.

Founded in the sixteenth century, the city preserves until today a remarkable architectonical set, built by the sea and hobbled by IPHAN (Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage National), with narrow streets, cobbled old, made of stones and irregular beautiful colonial houses.


Natal - the corner of America



The location of Natal already have yielded some color full of admiration and enthusiasm.

The city, which is nearest the coast of Africa that of São Paulo, is very developed during World War II, when served as a base for the allied troops, as defined by the Department of War of the United States as "one of the four points the world's most strategic, "along with Suez, Gibraltar and Bosporus.

Crucial, both for the defense of the South Atlantic, as for resumption of North Africa, the end of the Great War, the corner of the continent won the nickname of the Trampoline Win.

But it is with a nickname and more peaceful Natal that better identifies itself, and it was also by the work and grace of its special geographical position that the capital of Rio Grande do Norte received the title of the Sun City.

A name quite fair for a city that receives more than two million tourists and 300 days of sunshine per year. In the southern coast, 14 km from the center of Natal, is a beautiful beach of Ponta Negra, with a small bay of white sand, where the Morro do Careca, of 120 meters high, is one of the best known of the postcards city.

It is from Ponta Negra that begins to call Way of the Sun, with beaches and much more quietly beautiful as those of North Pirangi and South Pirangi, Parnamirim, Buzios and Barra de Tabatinga.

In North Pirangi, in addition to natural pools that, at low tide, are formed in less than 1 km from the coast, tourists will know the biggest tree in the world, a rare natural phenomenon, in which a single tree, more than a hundred years of age, occupies an area of 8,500 m².

In the opposite direction, toward the north, is the Parque das Dunas, another work of nature. Considered Environmental Heritage of Humanity, the Parque das Dunas involves the center of the city, along the Coastal Route, an area of approximately 1,172 hectares.

It is the second largest Urban Forest Park in Brazil, outpaced only by the forest of Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro. Built on sand dunes between the Rio arid and Atlantic coast, in the midst of lagoons and lush vegetation native, is not at random that Natal, in 1994, received from NASA (the North American Space Agency) another title: the More Clean Air of the Americas.



Read more about Natal (in portuguese) >

Beaches of Curuípe and Espelho - the paradise in Bahia



Among Trancoso and Caraíva, at the mouth of the stream Curuípe, a former village of fishermen houses two of the most beautiful jewels of the Brazilian coast: the paradisiacal beaches of Curuípe and Espelho (Mirror).

Thanks to reefs, which provide water quietly, warm and crystalline, with many natural pools, and the typical edge-Card postcard, full of coconut trees and cliffs, the real treasures of southern Bahia achieved international fame.

Moreover, thanks to the difficulties of access, done on the road precarious, and the awareness of residents, the place is still very well preserved, with its lush Atlantic Forest and the vegetation of sandbank, and mangrove wetlands in the midst of cliffs tone white and red.

By reforming the old houses of fishermen, there was a clear choice to maintain the original characteristics, enhancing the simplicity and ruggedness, with great charm and good taste.

The access to this marvel is also protected by a sophisticated condominium, the Outeiro das Brisas, with pousadas, houses of high standard and several options for recreation.

Besides Curuípe Beach, and the Beach of Espelho, there are others that deserve to be visited, as the beautiful Outeiro Beach and Amor (Love) Beach (or Setiquara), where the walks for the edge, taking advantage of the low tide, yield walks Soho.

In Curuípe, some hotels and guest-houses are not boast of offering television and warn the guests that there your phone is not "catch". Just watch the birth of the sun reflected in the mirror to discover Beach have all reason.

Curuípe is a special place within the peculiar and dazzling on the Discovery Coast, 25 kilometers from Trancoso and 12 km of Caraíva. A place made for rest and find the nature in all its splendor.

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Sunday

The Ten Better Beaches of Brazil


Brazil Blue selected ten better beaches Brazilian, leading in account not only of bigger scenic beauty, but also the level of preservation of each one of them.

The beaches of Fernando de Noronha had not participated of ranking, a time that the archipelago, one of the preserved places prettiest and of the planet, is simply hors-concours.


Although, to more than select only ten beauties in a country with 2045 beaches spread throughout 8 a thousand kilometers of the coast, to be practically impossible task, we obtain to arrive at an interesting result.

In our list of the Ten Best ones, the chosen ones if equalize to most beautiful beaches of Noronha, all very preserved well, thanks to the difficulties of access of the massivo tourism.


Confers our list of Ten Better Beaches of Brazil (in portuguese) >


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original text translated by the Google translator