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[Sperto]

I ended up in Maragogi north of Maceio. A small city becoming very popular among brazilian tourists. They go there for the beaches and the piscinas naturais.

Regarding P4P, I didn't see any pro's strolling along the orla. However I did see a small bar with lots of goodlooking girls. It was very obvious they were pro's. The place was very anonymous. It's quite easy to find. In centro there is a small comunidade / favela. In the middle there is a very long stair heading up. When reaching the top you'll notice the bar close to a spot where there are moto-taxis. I was in a rush to meet a regular GF so I couldn't take time to sample the goods.

Note: Be careful if going there after dark.

[Sperto]

Maceio deserves more attention. A very pleasant city. Nice beaches and a beautiful Orla with lots of restaurants and bars. No gringos around and the girls gives a lot of attention to gringos. Stay in Pajuçara or Ponta Verde.

I heard there are some boates, but I was too busy to check them out. Some streetwalkers stroll the orla looking for customers.

Note: Lost of weird crackudos smoking their shit openly.

[Izl80]

AFUA in Para: population=39,500.

Slathered on some thick sunscreen here at the equator.

Macapa-2 hour river journey to Afua at 930 am.

Or.

Macapa-4 hour river journey to Afua at 8 pm (arrive early and find a spot to install your store bought (80-120 reales) hammock.

Having no idea what to expect in AFUA. I just brought the basic items for an overnite and left the rest of my luggage in a hotel in Macapa (near equator).

Arrived and showed proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

Hired a bici-taxi driver for (30 reales / per hour) as my tour guide. The place has boardwalk above the river waterline and the locals use bicycles to get around.

As this is a day trip, purchased my (60 reales) return ticket departing at 4 pm. Or choice of next day return in the morning.

Place has the obligatory football field, a short small plane airport runway and riverside boardwalk commerce. Driver indicated that around evening (after 7 pm), the tiny alleyways nearby billiard bars has rooms with garotas or garotas drinking at said bars.

Per driver: he pointed out a green house that operates as a house of pleasure in the evenings.

Unconfirmed: but driver said that in quantity about 50+ Garota de programa. Unknown quality. Prices 40-70 reales?

For the adventure minded with more time, Stay the night and let me know what you find in this hot, slow paced, river town with a lumber yard across the river spewing smoke at the smokestack.

[Bearsi]

Yeah. Maybe if you were coming from Afghanistan. How about a Pepsi challenge. One of these photos is of Arrial do Cabo and one is of Cancun. Both were taken by me with the same phone within 1 month of each other from the condo I stayed in in each place. Can you tell which photo is which place?

If I was you, I would adjust my expectations.

Did some preliminary research and talked to several Brazilians and it all led me to believe it's a nice backpacking nature getaway with a SO. Does look a bit barren since it's not a city like rio but wanted to go and explore more of Brazil since I've been to rio twice now and although fun want to travel more since I've been just been doing the same SP / RJ routine 3 times last year. I don't like to repeat so much. I appreciate the heads up and info you given and will adjust my expectations and will report back what I find out!

[Mr Enternational]

Arraial do Cabo is called the caribbean of Brazil and from the pictures looks amazing!

Yeah. Maybe if you were coming from Afghanistan. How about a Pepsi challenge. One of these photos is of Arrial do Cabo and one is of Cancun. Both were taken by me with the same phone within 1 month of each other from the condo I stayed in in each place. Can you tell which photo is which place?

There's a great tourist agency that I found there that offers tons of great fun activities in the area which made me consider AC to begin with honestly.

If I was you, I would adjust my expectations.

[Vagabundo1]

I must admit in recent years, I have just ubered to Buzios. It is easy to get a car. You can also ask uber drivers on local trips for their numbers and schedule a drive ahead.

I'm staying a bit on the outskirts of downtown by Mirante Estrada Praia do Pontal. It's a nice AirBNB location that people did mention in the review that UBERs don't usually go there so a taxi would be needed to be called a head of time. I'll have to ask the host for some good taxi drivers. Thought about renting a car but as others have stated you can get slammed with fines for any scratches and dents and so not worth it. I just have to call ahead to get around with the taxi it seems at least from the Airbnb.

Arraial do Cabo is called the caribbean of Brazil and from the pictures looks amazing!

There's a great tourist agency that I found there that offers tons of great fun activities in the area which made me consider AC to begin with honestly.

Insta at ondaarraial.

Weather seems to be decent when I get there so should be really good but I'll post updates once I arrive and leave.

Thinking of heading up to buzios for 2 days after AC but not sure yet. Kinda winging it last minute but all good adventure starts with the unknown.

[Bearsi]

Right now Uber is showing 2 and a half hours for 279 reais. In December my girl went back and forth thinking about the bus (hard to match times up) or Uber then she finally decided to drive her car. And I am glad she did. You should have no problem getting an Uber though. I did not when I went the other direction to Angra. I probably would not expect to get one from AC to Rio though. Might have better luck from the Buzios area.

I don't know what part of AC you are staying in, but we stayed in Loft Condos. If you do not have a car there then you are pretty much fucked. It would be best to stay in the downtown (used lightly) area because there was really nothing in the area that we stayed in, and what was there closed like 5:30 pm. So we had to always drive downtown to eat. Like I said before, if you do not go there then you are not missing anything.

I'm staying a bit on the outskirts of downtown by Mirante Estrada Praia do Pontal. It's a nice AirBNB location that people did mention in the review that UBERs don't usually go there so a taxi would be needed to be called a head of time. I'll have to ask the host for some good taxi drivers. Thought about renting a car but as others have stated you can get slammed with fines for any scratches and dents and so not worth it. I just have to call ahead to get around with the taxi it seems at least from the Airbnb.

Arraial do Cabo is called the caribbean of Brazil and from the pictures looks amazing!

There's a great tourist agency that I found there that offers tons of great fun activities in the area which made me consider AC to begin with honestly.

Insta at ondaarraial.

Weather seems to be decent when I get there so should be really good but I'll post updates once I arrive and leave.

Thinking of heading up to buzios for 2 days after AC but not sure yet. Kinda winging it last minute but all good adventure starts with the unknown.

[Mr Enternational]

Hope they fixed the toilets there because during my visit (a long time) it was. Damn! And the beach was packed beyond belief. Didn't like it at all and never got back there.

There are 5 beaches on Koh Larn. You don't go to the one where the ferry drops you off. You take a motorbike or baht bus to a better one.

[Xpartan]

But you just hop on the ferry at the end of Walking Street and be at Coral Island (which has great beaches) in 40 minutes for $1.

Hope they fixed the toilets there because during my visit (a long time) it was. Damn! And the beach was packed beyond belief. Didn't like it at all and never got back there.

But seriously, on the same note it would take you only an hour drive from Copa north or south to find better beaches. Recreio is like 40 minutes, although I didn't like it that much (packed). Prainha is better. Also I read that Vermilha is suitable for swimming again. If so, it's a great beach, too.

[Vagabundo1]

Concur with Xpartan. RJ optimal.

Rio's outlying beach towns -- beginning with Barra -- are where it is at.

As I said, I went on a very non pro hike Sunday morning. We step off at 7. Ironically (because it is a religious organization), our link up point is less than a futbol pitch from the top tier hoarhouse in Zona Sul. We hike transcarioca trail. On times when we have finished, fellow hikers and I go to Barra p3.

Barra P3 is described by the youtube blogger that Bearsi recommended as the best beach in Rio.

https://youtu.be/ihNqHLsvsw0

It is. Chege, SocratesNY (a generous and good wingman, BTW) and I have been hitting Barra P1, which is where Perola Negra is, and is where Metro Jardim Oceanico is.

You go to Perola Negra. You get numbers. The girls at PN are the same as 4 x4. They go back and forth, for example Callsign Penelope, whom I designate Callsign Annette Schwarz. She can be found at both.

The girls will come to work for PN in the afternoon, and go to the beach. They will sit there on the beach in front of Na Brasa Colombia, and zap (whatsapp) you and tell you to come find them, which me and SocratesNY did. You could then order them if you wanted their price (I didn't) of 500 r and hour. Fug that. But it is high season. Summer Solstice was 21 Dec, 2 h50 m longer than winter solstice 21 June, and the earth is tilting back, but high season will be an affliction on spartan mongers until carnival passes. So you can go back and forth between the beach and arguably one of the best if not the best termas in Rio, all at Barra P1. OK, some of you argue P10 is better, maybe. Pesquera, a great insta photo spot is about P8 or 9. P12 is Recreio, and IMHO unexplored and probably awesome. Papatinho the prince of Brazil lives there in a surfers run down ap and surfs daily, his success on pineapple notwithstanding. Keep going up the road, and you have praia abrico, half nude, half clothed. Keep going further still and you come to Guaratiba / Marambaia. The best paella is at Cafe Marambaia and a good pousada is probably at Pousada Marambaia.

And that's not even getting into Angra, or Buzios, or Arrail, or Cabo Frio, or Saquerema, or Paraty -- all those are venues of super beaches, which, again, you can hit with a unlimited supply of 18 year old Rio hoars. Just go to trash casas and VM, 116, and PN, and get numbers, and make a market, it will take 3-5 to find a few regular, buttman backpacker sex hotel fuck companions to make those short trips pretty awesome.

Finally, Vagabundo has been to Thailand, as a non pro (not hobbying) Lieutenant of Naval Infantry, to include a side trip to Cambodia as a Phnom Penh fireman to get Swiss folks out, and the simple fact is that Latinas and negras and mulatas are hotter than asian women, IMHO, though I did sleep with a hot Thai girl with huge natural super fit tits for free. So, Rio really is the capital of the world, and its own planet. Now that Copa and even Leblon are basically toilets, Barra is the place to be. A MILF blonde super hot AMERICAN woman Vagabundo met in the Transamerica pool totally concurs, and I got her zap so I will be tagging that loira tail along with the locals soon enough.

I'm not sure about the purpose of this intellectual exercise. Rio's are urban beaches, so blaming them for their lack of serenity in a megapolis of 7 millions is not really fair. You won't find any huge city in the world that would meet these demands. And bringing up Pattaya couldn't be more wrong; Pattaya, being the only urban open-air hoarhouse in the world, is an amazing locale, but it has no historic value, no architectural or natural beauty, no usable beach, nothing except good food and that famous in-your-face, 24-hour a day nightlife. Which, by the way, is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but you aren't even comparing apples and oranges, more like apples and beetroots.

My point is that Rio has the best combination of natural beauty, decent beaches, amazing nightlife and even bits of colonial history for those of us who aren't scared to venture downtown. Does it have serene beaches like Fernando de Noronha? No. Does it have fewer GDPs than Sampa? Probably. But in all seriousness, one would have to live several lives before they'll have an opportunity to get lonely in Rio..

[Sperto]

Yeah that place pretty much sux. Nothing but hills and mosquitos and US $6 for a gallon of water. I could not figure out why people go there.

People go there because it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for having the most beautiful beaches in Brazil. The island only allows a limited number of visitors to avoid the island to get exploited. Nature and wildlife is impressive. The diving is outstanding. Dolphins, turtles, sharks etc. The hiking is great, you can circle the island in half a day. The nightlife is very limited, but it's not hard to get laid with a native or tourist girl.

Fernando isn't necessarily expensive. Go there without booking a hotel. On arrival it's easy to find quite cheap lodging in the vila, just ask the locals.

I've been to Fernando several times but I can't recall any problems with mosquitos.

[Mr Enternational]

And bringing up Pattaya couldn't be more wrong; Pattaya, being the only urban open-air hoarhouse in the world, is an amazing locale, but it has no historic value, no architectural or natural beauty, no usable beach,

But you just hop on the ferry at the end of Walking Street and be at Coral Island (which has great beaches) in 40 minutes for $1.

[Mr Enternational]

Does it have serene beaches like Fernando de Noronha?

Yeah that place pretty much sux. Nothing but hills and mosquitos and US $6 for a gallon of water. I could not figure out why people go there. If it was not for scuba diving I would have counted that as a wasted trip.

[Mr Enternational]

This illustrates why I am interested in the Beaches of Northern Brazil. I wonder if they are worth the trip with one of my favorite gals along for the ride

I can tell you that right now. Hell fucking yeah. Right before the pandemic started me and my girlfriend took 13 days to drive from Natal to Salvador stopping at all the beaches along the way. Even got the chance to hit up a nude beach in Bahia. Only thing we had was a car and a hotel on each end. Every night I would make the plan for the next day. It was wonderful. Our next one will be from Sao Luis to Natal.

[Xpartan]

OK, let's talk about the trade off between high quality, world class beaches which RJ is NOT and places where you have a ton of girls and a decent beach which describes RJ pretty well. IMHO. The theory is that the better the beach the less opportunity there is for poon. Examples:

1. Pattaya: The Sex Capital of the known Universe. More girls / more bars / more everything than RJ, but Pattaya Beach is totally polluted. The Beach sucks although it looks nice from a distance.

2. RJ: a good combination / tradeoff of decent beaches & plenty of attractive, friendly girls. Maybe the best combo in the world, but RJ beaches are not world class! They may be considered iconic, but I can think of at least 30 beaches more beautiful, more serene, more natural. The problem is these spectacular beaches have no girls or very few, so they are strictly bring your own girl type beaches.

3. Patong, Phuket: a much nicer beach than RJ, IMHO, although not the prettiest beach on the island, but there is plenty of nightlife in Patong, although not as good as RJ's nightlife and most certainly not even comparable to Pattaya's nightlife.

I could keep going, but I think you get the drift. RJ is a great place to monger and shag friendly, attractive Brazilian girls and relax on the beach during the day. But if you want a better nightlife than RJ, you have to give up the beach and go to Pattaya, SP, or BKK. And alternatively, if you want to spend time on higher quality beaches you have to give up on the nightlife. That is the tradeoff.

BTW Barra Posto 10 IMHO is better, cleaner, and more natural that Barra Posto 1, but it is farther out, so you got to BYO. This illustrates why I am interested in the Beaches of Northern Brazil. I wonder if they are worth the trip with one of my favorite gals along for the ride or if I should just settle on nearby Buzios side trip. I guess I won't know the answer to this burning question until I find out for myself. KKK.

I'm not sure about the purpose of this intellectual exercise. Rio's are urban beaches, so blaming them for their lack of serenity in a megapolis of 7 millions is not really fair. You won't find any huge city in the world that would meet these demands. And bringing up Pattaya couldn't be more wrong; Pattaya, being the only urban open-air hoarhouse in the world, is an amazing locale, but it has no historic value, no architectural or natural beauty, no usable beach, nothing except good food and that famous in-your-face, 24-hour a day nightlife. Which, by the way, is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but you aren't even comparing apples and oranges, more like apples and beetroots.

My point is that Rio has the best combination of natural beauty, decent beaches, amazing nightlife and even bits of colonial history for those of us who aren't scared to venture downtown. Does it have serene beaches like Fernando de Noronha? No. Does it have fewer GDPs than Sampa? Probably. But in all seriousness, one would have to live several lives before they'll have an opportunity to get lonely in Rio.

In terms of beaches in the North, I took a couple of boat trips to different beaches when I visited Salvador. They were both gorgeous, but not more so than Lopes Mendez on Ilha Grande or Trinidade in Parati, and both are just a few hours away from Rio. So no, I wouldn't fly there for the beaches, but I would fly there to see Salvador again, which is a unique and amazing city, or to discover new places in the North I've never been to. I think it's ridiculous to fly away from Rio for the beaches, but what do I know.

Now, if you're looking for a place that should be in everyone's bucket list, monger or not, try Lencois Marenhances (sp? It's a long journey, but it really is an otherworldly experience.