Hotel Pousada Tatuapara
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Travel Blogs from Praia do Forte
Portuguese Man of War
As I hiked 3 hours along the beach at 7am this morning - I know, really not like me but I am starting to channel the Bear Grylls way of things - I came across these critters. Pretty colour but I dimly recalled something from my days of researching sea hazards (if you like swimming, it's best to be acquainted with what lies beneath) that said 'purple=Portuguese man of war'. And so I proudly present to you my first bona fide venomous hazard on this trip. I somehow think it won't be my ...
Fauna
I really came all this way to see monkeys, but there aren't any here, so I'm photographing whatever else I see. I will keep a cumulative Monkey and Mosquito score, so today's total is: Monkeys 0, Mosquitos 0. Obviously we want to keep that Mosquito count at ...
The Sea
Although the sea looks calm it packs a bit of a punch and I've been knocked flat on my bum by the waves (no mean feat) and been scraped along the sea bed (painful and definitely not elegant). It is however warm, I can never get over the miracle of warm sea, it somehow feels ...
Finally....a beach and even better....
....I'm watching 'Hellboy' in Portuguese. Well I don't speak any Portuguese other than yes, no, please and thank you and they speak very little English here, so I thought a comic book adaptation of a supernatural red devil might give me an appropriate vocabulary - ...
Beach, Turtles and Beans
Just up the coast road from Salvador is Praia de Forte which is a very up market resort - we stayed at the campsite 3k from town. To get to the beach we walked down jungle clad lanes and across an airstrip - the horses were grazing so we reckoned there were no incoming flights due!
The town has a lovely shopping area on the way to the beach and the turtle reserve. ...
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Kids activities or Babysitting