Porto Preguicas Resort Barreirinhas

... that all seemed to consist of a a couple of small shops , a white painted church and a concrete village square. Often women were washing clothes in a nearby pond while the village children played and splaashed each other. On arriving in Paulinho Neves, we swapped from a vehicle driven by the owner's son to one driven by his nephew, here the road disintegrated from a track to non existence, The car had to go over bumps and through ditches filled with water ...

... Park dos Lençois Maranhenes. Barrierinhas is a little fishing town. Perched besided a small river, with a tiny sand-dune beach. It's a really lovely part of the world. Due to its remoteness, it doesn't see many tourists. Mainly Brazilians and the odd foreigner, who, like us, had been told about the nearby national park by someone. This suited us fine because it meant everything was about half the price we ...

... maly ``jacht`` (cudzyslow nie bez kozery wstawilem bo zagiel mial jakby z platikowego worka, a styl plywania 2 braci co nim zawiadywali nie odbiegal od tego zagla ;)) i poplynelismy do pobliskiej wioski. Nastepnie powrot motoroka a potem busem do Sao Luiz - wszystko zazebione tak ze az sie sam zdziwilem ... potrafia tu tasmowo obslugiwac gringo. Sao Luiz wieczorem podobne choc wzbogacone o nowe elementy. Szkola ...

... tylko) mam pokoj z oknem, lazienka i AC. W zasadzie to powinienem w nim siedziec a nie tu na internecie ;) Ale do rzeczy - bo tu diuny sa najwazniejsze i to nie takie jak u F.Herberta ale cudownie przyjazne i umozliwiajace orzezwiajaca kapiel. Wyobrazcie sobie morze wydm (takich ze 20 wiec sporych) a wsrod nich jeziorka. Njaladniejsze z nich to 200 na 200 m ...

... to the base of the dune that still has a lake (Lagoa de Peixes, which means lake of fish) from the rainy season. (All the others have dried up.) We sat next to an older Italian couple and I giggled the whole way there as the man grunted and moaned each time we hit a bump. Not sure if he had hemorrhoids or what but it was rather funny. Once ...

... builed up in the valleys of the sand dunes - a truly awsome place. There were 5 lakes and I swam in 3 of them - the tempreatures here were unbelievable and even plastered in suncream i was burned - not too badly though. There are fish that come up to you really timmidly, I was just watching them as I was in a lake all by myself and then the little ones started eating me! They come up to you and then suck against your skin - I got a little freaked out affter bigger ...

... once again I was driven to the door of a Poussada which was nice enough concidering it was the only one in town (a town of 2 streets). I ate the only dish served accross the road at the only restaurant in town (rice, spaghetti, stroganoff & salad), watched the sunset on the only bridge in town and then went to bed ...

... celodenni vylet do pouste. Notnou chvili nemuzu narazit ani na blbou cestovku. Kdyz konecne zahlednu v dali nejake jeepy a tusim tak svou prilezitost, potkam toho blbce ze vcera, kterej me hned nekam tahne. Pac sem asi po 40 minutach bloudeni trosku nalomena, necham se odtahnout do nejake cestovky...delaji jen dopoledni a odpoledni tury. Ja chci ale na celej den. Kdyz uz sem jedu takovou ...

... as the jeeps seemed to race each other home in the near dark. Got home in one piece. Went out for dinner to a restaurant on the Rio Preguicas - had fresh fish and prawns which was v nice and then booked another trip for tomorrow. 1st - still here and up early and out to get a boat up the rio to a few towns still in the national park. First stop was Vassares where there are more towering dunes and a couple of cafes. This was even more hard ...

... mark a sharp curve in the land before the sea below. To either side of this curve, beaches untouched by man float off into distant disappearance. Rain-gray ocean tries climbing the beach in puffing waves. But, what sets Jericoacoara apart are the large, white-as-salt sand dunes that have been blown into their solitary positions all across the coconut-plam-dotted, sand landscape. At times, ten dunes can be seen at once: leaping along the beach or towering behind ...