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Lencois Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lencois
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Hotel Canto Das Aguas Lencois
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De Lencois Hotel
9 reviews -
Portal Lencois Hotel
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Pousada Villa Lagoa Das Cores Lencois
6 reviews
Lencois
Travel Blogs from Lencois, Brazil
Sand, sand and guess what?
This is a top pick! ... and watched the brilliant orange sunset with the view. Fantastic and just what we wanted to see. Never thought it would be in Brazil though! Back to the hostel in an even more precarious ride as the jeeps seemed to race each other home in the near ...
Chapada Diamantina National Park
This is a top pick! ... much of this even though I was sure my camera would burn out from the soaking rains. Fortunately it still works and plenty of pix are posted here. Now I have to go back to Salvador and extend my passport stamp... still lots to see and do here in ...
The Brazil Countryside
This is a top pick! Finally, a change of scenery! My current travel partners and I, Guillermo and Jerome from Spain and France respectively, jumped on an early morning bus for Lençois, a small town 7 hours away from Salvador of about 7000 people making a living from ...
bahia é alegría
This is a top pick! ... - a diamond-rich area, whose precious stones have been forced through the earth's outer crust and washed into riverbeds - creating Brazil's most diamond-laden region, attracting feverish miners in search of a lucky buck since the mid-1800's and leading to ...
Brazil!
This is a top pick! ... great regularity and we spent many an hour checking out the foxy capoueira boys practicing on the beach.... And now Im in Lencois, further inland where there is amazing hiking and lots of beautiful waterfalls. I will probably head off in the next day ...
Chapada Diamantina
This is a top pick! ... of waterfalls, large caves, endemic flora and fauna and some lovely walks. The area is only accessible through a local town called Lencois which was just gorgeous. A small town, whose whole business is supporting tours, trips and people who go into the ...
Chapada da Diamantina
This is a top pick! ... to start another trip. A tour where you go by car and you visit many different places ... And even Martin wanted to join us, and originally he only came to Lencois because of the festival and now he is making a sightseeing tour ;) BUT No Problem ...
Lost Guide and Biking Tour with Problems
This is a top pick! ... Salvador, because somebody tried to rob her, but he couldn`t get her bag. But of course she was really afraid. Porto Seguro we are coming! The Music was not really good and so we just bought some things and left Lencois at 11 pm to Salvador ...
Waterfalls, caves and a lot of rain
... last 2 days and so I was worried I would fall asleep and get robbed! Fortunately that didn't happen and I arrived safely in Lencois at 4am. The following morning I got my first proper view of Lencois, which was a very pretty town with cobblestone ...
Lençoís- Chapada Diamantina
... got to see a really cool capoeira class/show with little kids and a midget. Oh and I cannot forget my most glorious moment in Brazil, we found a Mexican restaurant!!!!!!! Anywho, Lençoís was a great way to end our stint with the boys, very nice, and a ...
Blue lagoons
Just a few hours away from São Luis lies Parque Nacional Lençóis Maranheses, a coastal desert of vast shifting dunes and isolated communities cut by broad rivers and sky blue lagoons. ...
lencois
I spent in lencois 2 days of hiking. the views there are quite similar to those of the golan heights and the upper galil. on the first day i went on a horse-back riding trip with a group of israelis i met on the bus. i was amazed of their incapability ...
Music, Capoeira, Hawking and Hiking - BAHIA!!
... au brésil. Nous avons lue qu´il y a du hiking spectaculaire à faire. Nous avons pris un bus de nuit de Salvador à Lencois (on commence à être pas mal bon pour prendre des bus au brésil ... du moins je le pensais...). Le bus est seulement de 6 ...
Hardcore Trekking at Chapada Diamantina
... I enjoy the natural park a lot more. The landscape is amazing, specially on the bottom of Cahoeria de Fumasa, the highest waterfall in Brazil, water comes from so high that it vaporizes on the way, producing the effect of been smoke instead of water. The ...
Posauda Rita
... went into a cave. With a couple of days relaxing by the river and some great food thrown in the mix, we left lencois feeling healthier and rejuvinated....... just so we could waste our newfound health on a night in the seediest town in brazil (feira ...
Der Trip ins Ungewisse
"Fuer 140 Real bekommt ihr keinen englischsprachigen Guide" - Fuer 210 wohl leider auch nicht! Englischsprachig ist ja auch relativ. Hat ja keiner was davon gesagt, wie viele Woerter er sprechen koennen muss und ob er die dann auch versteht oder ...
THE MASSIVE UPDATE
OK, heregoes: gonna try to do a rundown as quick as possible of the last couple months. Feel free to leave a comment or question, family or just a visitor, as there is a lot more to say about this time period. Pictures are few and far between because ...
Im so sick of waterfalls
To escape the heat i went inland to the mountains. the climate here is slightly less oppressive than Salvador! Set in the mountains there are stunning views and valleys cut by beautiful waterfalls and rivers. in the two weeks i spent in the chapada ...
Days 56-62 Waterfalls, Caves & Grutas By ES
... out with them and some other people they met from Rio at a Cachaçaria (cachaça is the most popular type of liquor in Brazil). We had little shots of cachaça mixed drinks and headed back to the campsite after a long day. Day 2 The random people ...
Chapada Diamantina
Happy Birthday, Dad!!! Lençóis is a very pretty little town. Cobbled streets, very hilly, and definitely touristy. Lots of pousadas and "Extreme Adventure" stuff around. Just hung around for a bit, met some people at the hostel, and we went on a ...
Weekend trips
We went on two weekend trips to other cities in the state of Bahia. The first trip was to Morro de São Paulo, which is an island paradise a few hours off the coast of Salvador. It´s so remote that we had to take 2 buses, a ferry, and a ...
Chapada Diamantina national park
... . It was perfect to recharge my batteries after the excesses of big cities. Highly, highly recommended. Hint: The treks are a bit expensive. If you want to save some money, walk back to Lencois (if that's where you're based) instead of getting the ...
Lovely Lencois
... covered in sterile, breathable dressing - thanks very much Mum & Duncan!! That evening we enjoyed our best meal in Lencois at a fabulous restaurant called ¨Slow Cooked Restaurant¨. Richard enjoyed a local spicy goulash dish and I had an amazing ...
into the wild, again!
Although we said we were finished with trekking, we couldn't resist checking out the Chapada Diamantina, a huge natural reserve "just" 6 hours bus journey from Salvador. We arrived on a Monday morning, well 4am, in the lovely town of Lençois. Nobody was ...
Free Fallin´
(Post by a very tired and sore Sam) I´ve felt a lot of things at the end of a big party- exhaustion, muscle pain, headache, etc. But when the Bahians collapsed in on eachother at the end of the last bloco of Carnaval, it wasn´t from fatigue- ...
A breath of fresh air!
Resume francais a la suite du texte! Lencois is a small town near the National Park "Chiapada Diamantina". We spent a wonderful four days there, hiking in the National Park, including a day trip to Fumaca Falls which are the highest falls in the country, ...
Een bijzondere ontmoeting
De omgeving van Ilha dos Lencois Vanuit de oceaan moeten we wel 10 mijl richting de kust door een geul varen om in beschut water te komen. We hopen vanuit het westen alsnog in Lençois de Marenhenses te kunnen komen nadat we aan de oostkant van dit ...