Vila Gale Fortaleza Hotel

Travel Blogs from Fortaleza

Kite Safari - the start

A travel blog entry by cat6698

... of short local downwinder 4. Central line snapped so another kite rescue!, This is after only 4 days.... DAY 1 : 20 k +. Downwind Pecem to Taiba. Lovely downwind - one section with scary waves for Mrs F. One nitemare for Mrs F when waves knocked me into little cliff bay....the only hazardous place en route. Managed to get back out & riding but gave everyone a ...

Beach

A travel blog entry by kirsty_joe

Arrived back to Fortaleza and checked into our hostel had time for a quick walk along the beach and watch all the surfers and bodyboarders from the pier before sunset.

Next day headed to the beach for a nice relax and sunbathe, well until i was stirred by someone shouting and looked up to find a gun being waved around over my head by a police man and found 4 lads behind us who he was targetting, I didn�t know whether to ...

Flight

A travel blog entry by kirsty_joe

We boarded our flight from Sao Paulo at 12pm arriving at 2:30am. After a taxi to the hostel we were in bed by 4am.

We forced our selves up early the next day to catch the morning bus to Jericoacoara only to find after an hour walk to the ticket office that we had missed the morning bus and needed to get the 7pm bus.

We began walking to the bus station to book tickets to Salvador and after 2 ...

Kite surfin' Cumbuco

A travel blog entry by mimicracra

Quelques jours loin de la grande ville de Fortaleza et de la civilisation, au paradis des kite-surfeurs. Cumbuco, petit "village de p�cheurs", b�n�ficie d'un vent constant tout au long de la journ�e et tout au long de l'ann�e et en fait un spot id�al pour les amateurs de sports de voile.
J'en profite pour prendre deux petits le�ons, qui me permettent d'apprendre a manier ...

Le départ

A travel blog entry by mimicracra

Dimanche matin, d�part de Paris avec 13kg de bagages en soute et un petit sac a dos bien rempli. Deux vols nous separent de Fortaleza au Br�sil, les deux vols avec du retard... Ca commence bien, mais on est pas press�es.
Arrivee en fin de journee a l'hotel Casa de ...