Pousada Calanda Jericoacoara

Jericoacoara is voted one of the most beautyful beaches in the world. I could argue about that but def Jeri offers a unique, one of a kind atmosphere and t's a remote, hidden from civilisation village that drives you in a relaxing mood.
Jeri lies approximently 300 km of Fortaleza and can be easly accessed by bus that departures from Fortaleza’s main bus station twice a day. Once it was a sleepy ...

... little longer to wear off than most.  By day, the town kept its relaxed, informal atmosphere – though I decided to put shoes on as I was finding the sandy streets quite irritating on the feet!

The town came right down to the beach  - with drinks and food carts lining the final stretch to the sand – currently boarded up but which boded well for later on.

I decided to take advantage of the low tide (and decided lack of surf) to ...

... 130R, for about a 5 hour ride, so we set of to the west of Jeri along the beach which strecthed as far as you eye could see, not long 25 mins in we stopped off by a river which was the eclogical reserve of the seahorses, so we got ina a small canoes with a guide who spoke no English and he took usalong the edge of this muddy creek searching foe creatures in the mud , we first spotted along the banks very easily due to their distinctive ...

... more difficult than the professionals made it look and we both ended up very sandy but luckily without any broken limbs. We also went on a dune buggy trip across miles of beaches in order to reach the beautiful Lagoa Azul - Blue Lagoon - where we swam in the clear waters, chilled out on hammocks and ate a ton of freshly caught fish chosen from a live menu. We went on the tour with a Brazilian couple who were from Sao Paulo - we got along really well as Sam ...

... how heavily they were marketing this place to get it going, because there was not really anything there! It will be a cool place if it takes off, because between the ocean and the beach, there is a skinny piece of land that protects an area next to the beach where there are no waves. It gets REALLY windy there so can be a bit choppy however. I was nervous, especially since we were there only ones there, and ...

... which wasn't easy wearing flip-flops!

We made it down safely and were rewarded with a really good view of the famous arch right in front of us.



I walked through the arch to sit by the sea crashing into the rocks and Katie followed, posing for a photo underneath the arch ...

... hotels are directly in front and the main town spreads out to the right. Our little hostel was off the screen to the right.



Once at the top it was great to sit down and just relax!



It would have been a beautiful sunset had it not been for the very strong storm on ...

... that we had already contacted one, when one of the guys said that he had the campsite with the best view in town. So we followed him, and were thrilled to find that he had a clean, secure site right on the beach that was actually just R$ 10/night for each of us. There was a nice breeze and a handful of other tents up, so we picked a nice shady spot and put up our tent. It was already ...

... al een eind gelopen naar het ruigere strand aan de andere kant om vanaf de rotsen naar ongelooflijk behendige parasailers en windsurfers te kijken. We besluiten daarom de duin aan ons voorbij te laten gaan en kiezen voor mooie ligbedden op een wat hoger gelegen plekje. Het levert, naast een mooie ondergaande zon, vooral leuke foto's op van het gekrioel op de duin! De volgende ochtend staat Syl al vroeg op. Op een rustig plekje op het strand, begint ze ...

... 70 year olds we saw with 14 year old girls to prove it as we couldn't believe our eyes. The following morning we went into the nearest travel agency and spent about 4 hours trying to get a flight...to anywhere in South America we could get a cheap flight too... in order to get out of Fortaleza. 6 hours later we were on a flight to Sao Paulo.