http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Cear-/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Brazil , Cear en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:11:48 BST Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:11:48 BST Sept 17 20 2008FORTALEZA BrazilWe arrived in Fortaleza on a beautiful sunny and hot day and spent our first afternoon relaxing at the hotel and a brief short walk to the beach near the hotel.Fortaleza is a big city about 2.5 million on the north east coast of Brazil 3 degrees south of the equator. Almost everyday of the year is hot and sunny with early sunrise and early sunset. This looks l http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-330798.html JericoacoaraJeri As we switched from the bus to 4WD and headed into the sand dunes towards Jeri Frank looked around and commented this must be the most remote I have ever been... and it certainly did feel like that knowing that the little town was surrounded by sand on all sides Jeri is a hippi town and a destination for windsurfers or kitesurfers and not the idyllic swimming and sun bath http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-330247.html Fortaleza is the Capital of Ceara' situated on the north east of Brazil.....it's hot all year round the beaches are beautiful and I can't wait to experiment the night life...Adrian should arrive tomorrow hopefully will manage to stand up and have some fun too....Just in case you don't know Adrian is old and has back pain these days but even than He's leaving tonight from London and should be h http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-329813.html Ciao sono arrivato a Jericoacoara appena faccio delle foto ve le mando.Itacare sembrava un paradiso questo e molto meglio non pensavo esistesse un posto cosi. Dune di sabbia bianca ovunque sembra un deserto ma in realta e pieno d'acqua.Finalmente un tramonto in mare. peccato esser soliBaci http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-308384.html After Itacare I headed up the coast a little to Salvador but we only stayed a couple of days there as the weather wasnrsquot great and it just didnrsquot really have a very nice feel to it so a couple of friends and I decided to move further up the coast where the weather is better so we embarked on a mammoth 22hr bus journey to Fortelaze and from there we had to get another 8hr bus with the http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-301998.html Dear Bob I quit. Please accept my conditional resignation as an educator in this district. Upon reflection and a threeday visit to Jericaocoara I have decided that the working for a living just isnrsquot for me. Getting to Jericoacoara is about as adventuresome as pronouncing the name of this idyllic location the onehour jolting trip in an open truck plowing through sand and surf wil http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-274197.html At first glimpse Fortaleza is what Natal will look like in fifteen years. It is little more than a broad imposing and expanding stage of high rise apartment buildings ranging from justfinished penthouses to sootstained stepsisters that should be used as training exercises for the local fire department. Fortalezarsquos vertical block residences surge into the sky as if the city were a Tetr http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-274196.html Beaches and beach communities have never appealed to me. Activities are paltry. People arrive in such towns which are devoid of meaning and cultural significance only to expose themselves motionless to the cancerous sun hours on end until they become red and crispy. Beach towns cater to those who come to forget something or never be found by the society from which they are trying to escape. I http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-274195.html Hola de nuevo a todo el mundo.Tras reencontrarnos con Aimar que como ya os podeis imaginar por su blog casi nos abandona por un par de razones...je je aqui os escribimos desde Belem donde ya estamos preparados para cojer el bote que nos llevara a Manaus cruzando el amazonas. Pues en fin nosotros dos antes de llegar a estos lares hicimos una paradita en Fortaleza para de ahi ir directamente a u http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-255048.html to be completed great pics coming soon http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-254365.html It had taken us 18 hours on the bus to get from Belem to Fortaleza. Fortunately it was the best bus we have been on so far but we are still yet to travel on one that can compete with our Argentine experiences From the bus station we had about half an hour on a local bus into town assisted by a very friendly and helpful conductor.After viewing the ldquoBackpacker Hostelrdquo we decided to fi http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-248235.html So after a brief stop in Natal I headed off to Fortaleza to meet Soraia. In fact we saw absolutely nothing of Fortaleza as our reason for going there was to attend Capoeirence 2008 the annual capoeira meeting of Mestre Espirro Mirrim Cordo de Ouro in Portal da Lagoa Fortaleza.We spent three days there doing workshops in capoeira afro samba and forr. For those interested in capoeira it http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-236762.html HelloAnother busride took us from Fortaleza to Jericoacoara and after a connecting trip with a special truck we arrived on the seaside again amidst huge sanddunes. Lovely views hot temperatures quite a bit of wind nice people and good food met a nice guy Leandro xamppoo in his excellent restaurant Bistrgonoff just off the main street across Cafe Brasil and found out that he had been http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-209441.html Fri 5th OctTook a local bus this morning to a different beach about 8Km out side Forteleza Priai Fortuna.. very upmarket and expensive they add service charges on to everything. However a lovely beach where I did battle with the waves for a while .... couldnt swim as the waves were very strong and also quite an undercurrent. Would have been fantastic for surfing but that was banned becau http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-208570.html Thurs 4th OctAn early start due to the hotel owners dog wanting everyone awake at about 5 this morning. Anyway decided to do my own cultural tour of Forteleza today. I found the tourist information very helpful and they gave me a pamphlet in English with all the key sites. Took an omnibus and got totally lost as it went to a different part of the city than that on the front of it. 'Eventually fo http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-208373.html Wed 3rd OctA taxi to the coach station ensured I was in plenty of time to catch the midnight trip to Forteleza. Not a very exciting trip faulty air conditioning and uncomfortable seats meant little sleep. Forteleza is 537 Km from Ponta Negra. 'Arrived in at 745 a little later than expected and got a taxi to the hotel. This was one of the budget hotels cheap but quite a step down from the pre http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-208097.html I finally got up to the northeast like I have been meaning to... but it wasnt easy. I got to the airport in Rio on time but it took a lot of bus and taxi and money to get there.. Then the plane was delayed ... since it was really foggy out i was pretty glad they didnt just send us off into the mist so I didnt mind waiting... but they only made the announcements in Portuguese so I was never http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-185255.html We arrived in Jericoacoara last night try to pronounce it what a journeyWe had to change the bus at some point as the normal coach is not accustomed to those sandy roads. will try to put some pictures later on from Karolinas camera.Jeri is a tiny town very tiny on the coast north from Fortleza. you need a good map to find it.Anita pamietasz jak mowilas mi o tym miejscu w sume to http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-176049.html We are in Fortaleza now I went through the contents of my backpack yesterday and realised that my mobile was missing Of course my memory card was there so i lost all numbersAnd no it wasnt in the bag that got stolen.At least a couple of local people approach us every day telling us to be careful not to hang around after dark even if its only 6pm watch our belongings w http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-175464.html I arrived here very uncertain of what exactly awaited me. Luckily I was welcomed to town by a man named Alvaro who was a local after having left his homeland in Uruguay and he spoke perfect english. He showed me around and introduced me to everyone so I spent a week here. What can I say... Its Jeri You may be mildly impressed by some of the images I have managed to capture on my modest 2 m http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-173300.html Well its been another couple of weeks and Ive been in country for five weeks now and when I last left you I was leaving Fortaleza heading to a funky little beach town called Jericoacoaca. Itrsquos a cross between Airlee Beach mixed with Coral Bay WA people will understand Dowdell with sandy roads everywhere and heaps of accommodation and restaurants for the tourists. It also must have one http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-151559.html After clocking up the miles these last two weeks finally in northern Brazil in Fortaleza. Has been a crazy couple of weeks. Firstly left Rio De Janeiro and headed north into the state of Minas Gerias the old mining center back in 1700s. Beautiful colonial towns like Ouro Preto Sao Joao and Tiredentes..... very different from rio.... churches with bells ringing on every corner all day eve http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-145201.html August 26 2006Greeted by a La Maison Hotel employee at the airport I was really exhausted upon arrival at our me and hubbys' I call him BIZ destination. My stomach was bothering me a bit so by time we reach the hotel 830am I was out for the rest of the day and night. I'm not sure if it was the food I had eaten the night before or if it might have come from the mosquitos that had their Ame http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-142545.html Hello allLatest stop has been in Jericoacoara or Jeri. Sposed to be a kite surfing mecca and as Tim had brought is kite gear we were all up for it. Spent four nights in total didnt get the kit out the bag once. It rained every day we were there on and off also not the high season for the surf scene hence wind was bit unpredictible. So it should have been a really crap stay but it didnt turn http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Jericoacoara/blog-137544.html Hello Again Just a quick note to say that I will try and improve punctuation and using Capital letters after a few comments from randoms condeming my blog for lack of the above.As I said in my previous blog plans seem to change alot here in brazil and as you can see i am now in Fortaleza which is on the northeast coast of brazil. It took a good 52 hour bus journey after a 3 hour bus and a 2 hour http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-134585.html Hallo FreundeSpaet aber doch gratulieren wir zum Guten Rutsch in 2007 Vor unserem einmalganzanderem Weihnachts und Silvesterfest berichte ich noch kurz von einem Urlaub im Urlaub naemlich ueber den Ausflug in den Norden Brasiliens.Anfang Dezember um Mitternacht in Manaus DER Dschungelmetropole angekommen ohne Unterkunft und Ahnung darueber startete ich meinen Trip in den Urwald. Aehnlic http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-116738.html Ofeliz anho novo para todos wir wuenschen ein glueckliches neues jahrleider waren wir in letzter zeit ein wenig faul mit den eintraegen in unserem travelblog aber das sollte sich ab sofort wieder aendern neujahrsvorsatz. tja weihnachten und silvester in brasilien zu verbringen hat schon was an sich allerdings ist es auch ganz anders als zu hause. von advents oder vorweihnachtlic http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/blog-116731.html oschon laenger nix mehr gelesen von uns oder ja uns gehts bestens geniessen unser leben hier noch immer in vollen zuegen obwohl wir auch schon in die letzte woche gehen. koennen uns gar net vorstellen dass zuhause schon bald winter es nebelig und kalt ist. am 4.12. gehts dann bei uns bereits weiter in richtung amazonas wo wir sicher wieder tolle bilder und eindruecke sammeln koennen. weih http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/blog-106383.html Canoa Qebrada26th November 27th NovemberA quiet fishing village perched between white dunes and sienna ocean cliffs...postcard perfectI came her expecting secluded and quiet town but found another tourist trap. filled with pousadas restaurants and tourist shops.However there was a reason for that...it was indeed beautiful. i took a run along the beach and was puffed out by the time i covered http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/blog-106016.html 20th november 26th NovemberFortaleza admittedly was probably once a very beautiful city. but huge skyscrapers and hotels now hover over the wide sandy beaches....so much so that after 4pm you cant help but be swimming in shadow as the sun moves behind the buildings...occasionally escaping through the dense buildings.That said...it has a killer nightlife i came in search of what has been deeme http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Cear-/Fortaleza/blog-105688.html