Hotel Safari Natal

3 days became 10

So we were in Joao Passoa Rodavaria buying our bus ticket to Natal, excited for the sand dunes and beach buggys the city has to offer, when I started reading our rough guide. A little sentence catches my eye under the section of South of Natal. Praia da Pipa is in idyllic surroundings with dolphins regularly swimming ne...

So as usual a little prelude about our travel to Pipa. The grand plan was to leave Jeri for Natal (the nearest big city) and then get a small local bus to Pipa, about 4 hours away. As ever our bus was late getting to Natal and when we arrived we were told that there were no more buses till 8am the next day. We then tried to look in our guide boo...

Wir koennen uns** Glueck kaum fassen als Stefan am zweiten Tag sagt: "Jungs heute ist eu** Glueckstag, ich hab ein Haus fu** euch"... Er stellt uns noch d** gesammten deutschen Gemeinde Pėpas vor und wir du**fen uns auf einigen Party durchtrinken bevor wir in uns**e "Casa Kante" ziehen. Ein Haus irgendwie mitten im Wald mit Kueche und fu** jeden...

So am totally wasted, tired and drained, a bad combination when I fly as I get overly anxious and probably tend to freak out more and I generally never tend to fly with a carrier that I know nothing about which was always going to be a major difficulty in S America. So today I am flying with TAM and am pleasantly surprised. The plane looks like ...

Meeting People After my friends left me in Natal to wait for my flight back to Campinas, I really was sad, because I wasn`t used to stay alone. It is really strange when you travel alone, beacause normally you have to have somebody to share your experiences, I thought. But now after nearly one week I really have learnt to enjoy also alone. I wen...

Vi ankom Mirante de Pipa "resort" og var herlige bungalow kl fire om natten og var egentlig MEGET sliten, men.... damene satt i gang!!! Dusjing og det som trengs etter en uke i Andesfjellene, og matte feire med en konjakk og en vakker soloppgang fra terrassen var. To i hengekoye og to i delilige solstoler; vi kunne ikke vaere mer fornyod den mo...

Chillin in the courtyard of the pousada (hostel or whatever you want to call it) and I see 4 monkeys in the tree. Pretty sweet, they were like squirrels running around in the US but obviously much cooler because I have never seen monkeys outside of a zoo before. I wanted to play with them but my climbing abilities are not as good as Newmanīs (he...

This is in real time (nov 21), I just realized I had no idea who won the world series. So I looked it up real quick, and apparently it was the Boston Redsox. Congrats bmac. Beruman, really stalwort isnīt a word huh, i must have meant stalwart, words in english are starting to confuse me. btw: i must apologize for the 8th grade pedestrian writing...

After Manaus we wanted to spend a few relaxing days at the beach. We decided on Natal because it was close to the Equator and we figured the sun and the water would be warm. Little did we know that few people in Natal speak English. We are under the impression this resort town is a winter destination for people living in the south of Brazil. We ...

We arrive in Natal just south of the Equator where the prawns and sand dunes are king! The dunes here are truly incredible. Some places look like the Sahara where all you see is sand for miles. These dunes drop right into the ocean some several hundred feet high. The main mode of transportation around the Ponta Negra area is dune buggy. We hired...