"The Sweet Life" of Canoa Quebrada, Brazil.

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With the internet we take flight (850 euros) for a book and Fortaleza Canoa Quebrada, a country of 160 km. South of Fortaleza in the pousada La Dolce Vita "with B & B and I already agreed to come and take us directly to our arrival at the airport. On 8 November to 19 starting from Milan at a time of Fortaleza (via Recife) where we arrive at 3 at night. At Beto ahead, the driver of the pousada and after the greetings ritual will lead us to Canoa. Arriving can immediately change the money in exchange on the right inside the airport, 1 euro = 2.70 reais, or about a Canoe to do Banco do Brasil Rua in the main. At 6.00 ns the arrival Canoe is a country still desert but with a sunny blue sky. The pousada is + beautiful than we expected, a tropical garden of palm trees, flowers, a beautiful swimming pool and an apartment with wonderful views x 100 reais per day (about 35 euro: 17 euros per head). We do breakfast (there x all tastes) and I know two tourists in Venice (Emanuela and Mirella) that will become the companions of our adventure for 7 days. Then let's enthusiasm towards the sea through the rua Brodway still deserted. Broadway is the main road that crosses Canoe, is full of bars, shops, restaurants, clubs, particularly colored and decorated, with the passing of the day comes alive with tourists and local and then give their best on Friday and Saturday evening when they arrive from all neighbors x fun until dawn. Arrived at the sea there is a beautiful landscape, an overhanging cliff for 10-15 meters above the sea, with colors ranging from red to orange, to yellow, white, beach long (hundreds of km) and large, full of "Barracas" (the bar on the sea) were built of wood and colorful, where all day listening to reggae and Brazilian music and where you can eat fish x 20 reais (6-7 euros) and great drink beer or caipirinha x 2 -- 3 reais (1 euro), insignificant price for us! After a long walk we will stop in Barraca "the ghetto" (the last on the right) of an Italian boy (Mark) who has traveled half the world x then stop here with fellow Brazilian and the baby. It eats fish and excellent drink at reasonable prices as in other Barracas. After the bathroom and took the sun (protect yourself is very strong) to 17 when the sun sets we return in pousada, shower and then leave with Emanuela and to go from Mirella Marino (Emanuela brother who has opened a pizzeria-churrascheria ) to eat for 25 reais (8 euros) a tasty picanha argentina. Rua walk in and then we go to bed exhausted by the day and the sun caught. Friday at 5.30 we have x raised to see the sunrise on the beach, and make us a nice walk when the sun is still high, but increased for most internal streets of Canoa where we get a more authentic brazil, shops Super Cheap, colorful houses put on the good, the dusty streets where children play, however, still barefoot with smiling faces, a poverty of dignity. We do breakfast with the pleasant company of a family of small monkeys that are typical of Brazil enjoys eating the fruit that stretched them. Take agreements with Sivaldo x Saturday for our first excursion with buggy Emanuela and Mirella. The day passes to the sea to calm Barraca "The Ghetto", 17,00 we go on sand dune higher Canoe and see the beautiful sunset. In the evening we go to eat at the restaurant "Terra Nostra" in rua principal and then to make a trip to see all those little shops of local handicrafts. On weekends the town fills with tourists and locals, Brazilian cities nearby who joined the foreign tourists create a nice mix of people having fun until dawn. Saturday at 10 am starting with the buggy at a time of Sivaldo Ponta Grossa 40 km. south of Canoe towards Natal. After several miles of beach, the first stop is at x Majorlandia visit the refuge "Dourado", the villa built by a doctor on the cliff where a peasant of the place named Toninho has carved cliff that obtaining the biblical, the last supper statues and various decorations, entry 1 real (35 cents) and internal guidance. Will then continue in the direction of where we meet Quixaba sources of mineral water in a very suggestive: the Garganta do Diablo, a canyon white water has carved into the cliff and that we go up to the top to see the whole panorama ocean from above. The cliff on the surface appears very dry, with sand of different colors as in the dry desert, but it preserves and expels a lot of fresh water so that the passage you will see many vs rigagnoli water that flow from it, some can also go under to swim! X km continue along the sea on the left and right up the cliff to get to Ponta Grossa, a beautiful orange sand dunes that ends directly on the black sand of the beach and at sea, we go on top to take pictures and then straight to the Barraca a fisherman where lobsters and prawns us for modest sum of 25 reais (8-9 euros). In the evening we all drink a caipirinha by Marino and then walk in rua full of tourists. Sunday morning we go to buy a hundred notebooks that along with pencils, pens, gum, markers and deliver clothes worn by the wife of John (director of the public school) that will deliver to the poorest children, if we go to bring what you can Some really need it. Then right on the beach all day to enjoy the blue sea, calm and full of kite surfing and jangadas (the typical local boats). In the evening we go to the restaurant / bar Sauro eating typical foods of the region northeast of Cearà, all very good and as always at reasonable prices. Monday with Emanuela Mirella and book the trip for Tuesday to Morro Branco (60-70 km. West of Fortaleza Canoa direction) with Caio, after all, where on the beach all day stop the various "sellers" who spend buying of everything and more. Here in Brazil the number of sellers are very discreet, you ask if you want to buy, but enough that you respond with a "no, obrigado" (no thanks) and you just smile and greet you without rancor. People smiling, friendly and a little sorniona these Brazilians! In the evening we go to eat a tasty pizza from Marino. One of the few times that I can say that I have eaten pizza in Italy as abroad, he has all the components used lacks only the oil! Tuesday at 9 x Caio starting with the second hike in buggy. After km beach come to the first sand dunes, white and orange that go up with buggy x see beautiful landscapes, continuing until the mouth of the river that we cross Jaguaribe on a boat. Let the carinissimo Fortim country, situated on the river and a beautiful church to the Praia Fontes where many sources of water flow from the cliff to the sea x then arrive in the desert region of Cumbo, with beautiful white sand dunes from which you can see the valley below with oasis, a lake of fresh water and grazing animals in areas where the grass grows abundant. Descend from the highest dune (a real blow to adrenaline) in the direction of the fresh water lake where we swim and a rest there. Start at a time of Morro Branco, where we do a short guided tour. The landscape is beautiful, a cliff in 12 different colors and sculpted by the wind, seems to be in a large Cany