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[QUOTE=Ari Stevens]I've read through a ton of the postings and still haven't been able to find some good suggestions for what I am specifically looking for. I'm going to Brazil in August for a little more than 3 weeks. I'm flying into Rio and am planning on some fun and sun there for a few days. However, I want to move on. I'm into surfing and am looking for a place to go that has the following:

1. Good beaches and surfing;

2. Good nightlife (for partying, dancing, drinking, and most importantly finding both pros and non-pros);

3. NOT an overly resort type town. Something more laid back and organic rather than super developed with high rise hotels;

4. A place that is relatively easy to get to from Rio (I'm willing to fly).

Suggestions?[/QUOTE]

Near Rio you have Ipanema, Barra da Tijuca, Saquarema. Since you are not going until August, keep an eye on this site for current postings of activities:
[url]http://www.localbrasilsurf.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=Ari Stevens]I've read through a ton of the postings and still haven't been able to find some good suggestions for what I am specifically looking for. I'm going to Brazil in August for a little more than 3 weeks. I'm flying into Rio and am planning on some fun and sun there for a few days. However, I want to move on. I'm into surfing and am looking for a place to go that has the following:

1. Good beaches and surfing;

2. Good nightlife (for partying, dancing, drinking, and most importantly finding both pros and non-pros);

3. NOT an overly resort type town. Something more laid back and organic rather than super developed with high rise hotels;

4. A place that is relatively easy to get to from Rio (I'm willing to fly).

Suggestions?[/QUOTE]
PM me closer to your arrival time. I can put you in touch with the right people. You will need to become a paid subscriber to PM.

[QUOTE=Ari Stevens]I've read through a ton of the postings and still haven't been able to find some good suggestions for what I am specifically looking for. I'm going to Brazil in August for a little more than 3 weeks. I'm flying into Rio and am planning on some fun and sun there for a few days. However, I want to move on. I'm into surfing and am looking for a place to go that has the following:
1. Good beaches and surfing;
2. Good nightlife (for partying, dancing, drinking, and most importantly finding both pros and non-pros);
3. NOT an overly resort type town. Something more laid back and organic rather than super developed with high rise hotels;
4. A place that is relatively easy to get to from Rio (I'm willing to fly).
Suggestions?[/QUOTE]
If you want good surfing Brazil has lots of option. All the coast from Rio Grande do Sul up to Amapá.

However close to Rio and laid back results in less options. Saquarema might suit you.

To fullfill all your 4 demands (except pro's) I would recommend you to head north to e.g Itacaré, Bahia. It will take a busride but I assure you that you will not regret it.

Some info:
[url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=724828&postcount=330[/url]

[QUOTE=Ari Stevens]I've read through a ton of the postings and still haven't been able to find some good suggestions for what I am specifically looking for. I'm going to Brazil in August for a little more than 3 weeks. I'm flying into Rio and am planning on some fun and sun there for a few days. However, I want to move on. I'm into surfing and am looking for a place to go that has the following:

1. Good beaches and surfing;

2. Good nightlife (for partying, dancing, drinking, and most importantly finding both pros and non-pros);

3. NOT an overly resort type town. Something more laid back and organic rather than super developed with high rise hotels;

4. A place that is relatively easy to get to from Rio (I'm willing to fly).

Suggestions?[/QUOTE]I have a friend who is a big time surfer and he always told me that Fortaleza is great for surfing. Playa futuro and so is Guarapari in Espirito Santo. I personally have not been there but he is brazilian so I take his word for it.

Good luck

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I need to withdrawl some cash right now, 21.55 rio time any ideas?
Road name etc. Thanks

Hi, I have chatted with many girls from Belem some times ago because I liked to go to Belem. Now I have changed my programme because I have to reach Cuiaba. I'm chatting with some girls from Cuiaba but I am getting a bad surprise: in Cuiaba the girls are vely less friendly than in Belem and they don't have the curiosity to know a gringo. ;)
Brasil is so vast .... that they have a different friendly?
I am so sad for it. ;)
I'm making a mistake or it is right?

[QUOTE=FoxesHunter]Hi, I have chatted with many girls from Belem some times ago because I liked to go to Belem. Now I have changed my programme because I have to reach Cuiaba. I'm chatting with some girls from Cuiaba but I am getting a bad surprise: in Cuiaba the girls are vely less friendly than in Belem and they don't have the curiosity to know a gringo. ;)
Brasil is so vast .... that they have a different friendly?
I am so sad for it. ;)
I'm making a mistake or it is right?[/QUOTE]
I find the Cuiabá girls very friendly.
Maybe you have less response with the Cuiabá girls because they are not as gringo-oriented as the Belém girls?

[QUOTE=Sperto]I find the Cuiabá girls very friendly.
Maybe you have less response with the Cuiabá girls because they are not as gringo-oriented as the Belém girls?[/QUOTE]

Could yu tell me more on Cuiaba? If they have less response with gringos how can surprise them? Do you know an interesting hotel close to action?
On Cuiaba section there aren't any post fromm much time.
thanks for some info.

[QUOTE=FoxesHunter]Could yu tell me more on Cuiaba? If they have less response with gringos how can surprise them? Do you know an interesting hotel close to action?
On Cuiaba section there aren't any post fromm much time.
thanks for some info.[/QUOTE]
I've made a report on Cuiabá several years ago (it's maybe in the Other Areas section). Cuiabá is good for non-pro's, but I wouldn't bother to go there unless I planned to visit the Pantanal.

[QUOTE=Koolkid]I need to withdrawl some cash right now, 21.55 rio time any ideas?
Road name etc. Thanks[/QUOTE]A year or so ago I got some useful information on 24hr ATM that you can withdraw your daily limit at any hour. There is a a badresco ATM in the zona sul supermarket at praca general osorio, ipanema, 2 mins from irish pub. I have personally used at various times throughout the night, the first time was about 1am and was curious to see if it worked and it did, I used to be able to get a $R1000 or so as daily limit but these red ATMS have a $R600 limit per transaction this goes for all the free standing red badrecso ATM in pharmacys and supermarkets I believe now. You can obviously do more transactions providing your card issuers daily limit. I've had to rely on this ATM on a couple of occasions when been caught short with not enought cash and a GDP in tow in taxis etc.

[QUOTE=Bornran]Ok so I've come to the board to quell an argument with the fellows and myself. Would one agree that working women (terma, help, etc) most do what they do out of necessity while others to obtain wants. Thus attempting to diffrentiate their work life from there personal. So one can imply their mentality is I'm not cheating because this is what I do for a living, yet if I use my leisure time to chill with you it is because I have some form of attraction.

I believe its all what I call the Matrix all a game. While several dispute with statements that no she likes me because she spent time with me and didn't charge.

Whats your take.[/QUOTE]They ALL charge eventually. Marriage is the biggest CHARGE of all. You pay WITH YOUR LIFE! Enjoy her while you can.

[QUOTE=Sperto]I've made a report on Cuiabá several years ago (it's maybe in the Other Areas section). Cuiabá is good for non-pro's, but I wouldn't bother to go there unless I planned to visit the Pantanal.[/QUOTE]

I have just done a search in every section but I did not see your post.;)
I need some info because there isn't any post on Cuiaba here.
thanks

[QUOTE=FoxesHunter]I need some info because there isn't any post on Cuiaba here.[/QUOTE]
You'll find some info in the Cuiabá thread.
I don't know where my report ended up.

[QUOTE=FoxesHunter] how can surprise them?[/QUOTE]
As anywhere else.

Simply with good looks, language skills, cultural awareness, humor, initiative, imagination, self-confidence, charm, discernment, sensitivity, poise, time and of course cash.

Anyhow don't dream. The days when sex-hungry gringos on a one week holidays were an option for normal brasileiras are long, long, long gone. And don't think that less-travelled areas may offer you better chances with non-pros than cosmopolitan big cities. Even in provinces foreigners have a reputation as culturally inept sex tourists and girls have figured out since long that we only want to fuck them, so gringos are now more a curiousity to avoid than anything else.

BTW Cuiaba is a quite boring and uninspiring place. Better go to Goiania IMO.