We leave Caraiva with heavy hearts...it's easily our favorite place in Brazil so far and we'd love to stay. But all good things must come to an end and we know the vibe is about to change there anyway. It's no hardship going back to Arrial though. It's much busier than when we left but is still holding onto it's relaxed beachtown charm. The main beach here, Praia Mucuge is the busy party beach, lined with barracas playing loud forro or reggae, but walk a mile south and you get to the beautiful Praia Pitinga. Sometimes we hang out at Mucuge, but most of the time we head for 'our beach' Pitinga, and the chilled Barraca Pirates, complete with resident talking parrot, becomes 'our bar'. A funny thing with Brazilian beach behaviour...faced with miles of pristine,
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