Exploring Brazil’s most beautiful, and most expensive, vacation destination…
Oh so beautiful...
Ok so yes it was expensive… but it was worth it! The water is so clear and so beautiful. I flew from Sao Paulo to Recife in North Eastern Brazil and then on a smaller plane to the archipeligo of Fernando de Noronha. About a half day trip altogether and I arrived in humid and warm Fernando de Noronha. I headed down to the nearest beach called Praia do Cachorro at sunset to check it out. I stumbled around the rocks and say hundreds of crabs that kind of looked like tarantulas in the almost dark. It was a silly idea actually to go walking on the rocks in the dark but I made it back up to the little village safely with just a few scratches on my ankles and some fresh mosquito bites.
The next day I headed out on a boat trip with some new friends –it is such a small island you cannot help but make friends– and we saw dolphins! So many dolphins! They came up to inspect the boat. Then we did a tour of one coast of the archipeligo. It was a beautiful morning and I was luckily wearing lots of sunscreen. We got to do some snorkeling. THEN, I went scuba diving! Also a rather expensive endeavour but SO worth it. It is surprisingly easy to do and you can see corals and fish so much closer than when you are snorkeling. The colours are amazing. Overall it was a great way to spend the first day. I finished off the day with a my new friends and a really nice dinner of the island’s specialty fish cooked in banana leaves.
See that hole in the rock... it looks like a dolphin!
