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Has anybody passed through Tefe, Tabatinga or Santarem? I've already checked out Manaus and Belem and want to join the dots!!

TIA

Has anyone been to Buzios? If so how's the scene over there? I'm planning a trip to Brazil in October and I can't figure out where to go. Any suggestions?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RioNut
[i]Anyone been to Maceio? Are there a lot of foreign tourists here? Any program girls? Boates? Thanks. [/i][/QUOTE]I spent a week in Maceio a few years back. I stayed in a high rise apartment on the beach. There are various huts all along the beach, with each hut having its own band and bar. The huts all come alive at night. I'm American, and I saw NO americans at all there, but there were quite a few German tourists in the huts, and one night, a British Naval ship pulled into port, and the huts were filled with drunken British sailors! Generally, you can meet girls in the huts, some are pros, some are not. In any event, you can dance some forro music with them, buy them drinks, talk, and more likely than not, get laid that night. In short, a very wonderful little town, and the birthplace of Djavan, one of the great Brazilian singer/songwriters. Enjoy.

Maceio extract from my full report, in the General info board (http://www.wsgforum.com/vforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=555).

Place: Maceio (AL)
Pousada: Pousada Shangri-La
Address: Rua Jangadeiros Alagoanos, 1089 - Pajucara - Maceio (AL)
Phone: (0xx82) 231.3773
Girl friendly? Yes
Price: r$20 (double, AC, Frigo)
Comments: Maceio is my favourit place, so far. Not so many tourists, the pousada Shangri-la is my second home...
Day 1: Tuesday. Went to Jatuca, on the beach, in a Forro/Lampiao club. 15-20 G outside the club, rated 5 to 8. You can call them, dance with them, drink with them and, of course, fuck them. They start asking unbelievable prices, but I closed for r$100 TLN with a very beautiful girl, an 8 or even more. Good experience, but after two or three hours she said she had to go, she had a child e so on. I let her go, without any problem.
Day 2: Wednesday. Went to Forro club again, but I wasn't in the mood. Later, my friends decided to visit the Cocktail club. If you go there with a cab, they ask you r$22 entrance, we lower it to r$10. There where so many beauties, there, I mean 25g rated 7 to 9, great place! I spotted a wonderful loirinha, named Kelly. Talked with her, "falled in love" with her. She was a true 9, but a personal 10+. I had to pay r$30 for exit fee, and r$150 for her. Note that you pay everything on your bill, so everything (even the girl fare) is subjected to the (in)famous 10% service tax. Went with her to my Pousada, and I had with her the best experience so far, in terms of GFE, in all my mongering life. Great!
Day 3: Thursday. Went to the Arena Disco Club. No pro action there, but great "normal" action. So easy to know and dance with very beautiful girls.
Day 4: Sunday. Went back to Maceio some days later, just to go back to the Cocktail Club, and to be with Kelly again. I had to confirm that she was the best experience for me, in terms of GFE, all over the world.

Other areas, with no action:

Place: Praia da Pipa - Tibau do Sul (RN)
Pousada: Landuà
Address: On the beach front, close to the famous (and expensive) Pousada da Barbara - Praia da Pipa (RN)
Girl friendly? Don't know, but I think yes (I had the keys)
Price: r$20 (double room, vent), r$50 (double, AC, Frigo)
Day 1 & 2: I wasn't able to find real pro action, in Praia da Pipa. Everybody there goes to two or three disco bar on the main road, you can't miss it. I saw several "unfair" couples, eg. FOBU tourist with some brasilian girl rated 8-9, but I don't know where they catch them, maybe in the disco bars, or maybe in Natal...

Place: Mangue Seco (BA)
Pousada: Pousada o forte
Address: Praia da Costa - Mangue Seco (BA)
Girl friendly? Not available
Price: r$50 (double, AC)
Comments: First of all, don't go to that pousada. The owner, an argentinian guy, is a racist against brasilians and against black people. Fuck him off. Second, Mangue Seco is a wanderful relaxing place, ma no action at all anywhere! The village has just 200 inhabitants, and you will find there only couples, go there just to relax, not for mongering.

Hi Montana Reality,

When you are looking for some professional action, definitely do not go to Buzios. There are some (street)-hookers, but the scene is really poor.

This is because Buzios is a wonderful weekend and holiday resort for Brazilians, but only if it is season, a long weekend with a holiday and during the weekends in Summer. At these times you definitely do not need any pro-action there if you are looking OK, are nice and have some basic knowledge in portugues. There are a lot of gorgeous "garotas" at the beaches and in the city at night that are on vacation themselves and looking for some fun.

On off season, it is really (!!!) quiet in Buzios. Actually my preferred time as you will be on a 2 km beach with only 40 other people and have the surf all for yourself with some locals ;-))

Conclusion: Buzios is great for a real vacation and some girlfriend action on high season, but poor for pro action.

Greetings,

Brazileiro (who is not a Brazilian guy at all ;-)

ARACAJU, BRASIL:

Lonely Planet calls this city (about 4 hours north of Salvador), the "Cleveland of Brazil." It is industrial, etc., but they claim there's enough to do to keep a guy busy for a few days. Dunno. It was pretty boring and poor. I guess there's an o.k. beach nearby.

I stayed in the "Grande Hotel" in the heart of centro. 30R a night with a leak coming through the ceiling's electrical fixture. 3 stars?!

Anyway, centro is a little skid row, but not that bad. The SW scene (which is plentiful) pretty much radiates directly from the front door of the Grande Hotel. It's bottom-of-the-barrel shopping here, my boys, and I doubt you'll find that little street-honey that you can in Recife, etc. Pretty poor and washed up.

To your left, with the Grande Hotel to your back, you'll find the heterosexual street scene running for about 3 blocks in the same direction. Can't miss it.

Directly in front of you are the trannie (ye gads!), and I only mention this vector because this street dead ends into the river, which has more female SWs to the right along the river road (with the Grande Hotel still to your back).

There're two sex venues in town (as far as I could tell): "Patricia" and "Vanda."

Patricia is a ranch-style brothel about 25 minutes out of town. It goes by other names -- and indeed the main sign for the place looked like it read "Princessa." Not sure; the script was SO stylized that I couldn't really read it. All cabbies responded to "Patrice/Patricia," though.

I was there on a Tues. night, and found about 10 pretty attractive girls. No 9s or 10s, but many sevens and one 7.5. Prices quoted were 100R for the girls and 35-45R for the room. No price gouging for the drinks.

I did not go to Vanda. It's in centro and apparently on the low-ish end. Dunno for sure. Check it out for me and let us all know.

So in all you have two clubs and a low-end street scene -- and nothing to see or do as a tourist per se. Still, it has some low-ball attraction for those Hunter S. Thompson types who enjoy a little adventure with there sexual orienteering.

Happy Hunting,
JWadd

MACEIO, BRASIL:

This is a nice, fairly moderately sized beach town about 4 hours south of Recife. The place is sort of built around a beach-going tourist city concept, so it's comparatively modern viewed along side other coastal Brasilian towns. Beaches were nothing special (IMO) -- but I grew up in Hawaii, so maybe I'm a little spoiled.

I stayed in the Priaia Bonita Hotel -- really nice for about 45R a night. Once again Lonely Planet recommended what looked to be the best hotel right in the middle of the SW action (see my Aracaju report below).

The main tourist/beach area is a section of the beach-promenade strip called Jatiuca. It's about a 4-5 min. cab ride to the north (or left when facing the sea), or a pleasant 20 min. walk.

The SW action starts a little later, here -- around 11p.m. -- and runs the OPPOSITE direction of the tourist beach area. The scene is good, with tons of girls hanging out on corners on both sides of the streets. The street runs about 10 blocks to the south (to your right when oriented with the beach in front of you), with maybe 50 girls to be found in this section.

The street then sort of dead-ends, turning toward the interior of the city toward Centro. Girls are to be found here, as well (along this continuance of the street), and along the street which intersects it running parallel to the beach-promenade (with car traffic going in the opposite direction). Have I confused you enough yet?

It's really easy. In short, SW action is dense along the beach street and the main street 2-3 blocks behind it, running (and starting from) about 10 blocks to the south of the Priaia Bonita Hotel.

As far as I could tell, there're two boites in town: "Cocktail Club" and "Club 209." Both were bad.

Cocktail club is sort of a brothel about 10 min. from the beach -- with certain apartamentos on site and (I think) residence of the girls. Not sure. Prices were cheap -- about 100R (give-or-take) for the girls and 20R for a room. You can take them out, too. Drink prices were "boite-reasonable."

But of the quality of 'tang was low. I think I was there on a Thurs. or Fri., and found about 10-12 girls ranging from 5-6.5. Blah. The girls were not aggressive, though. Maybe your luck will be better.

Club 209 (prounced "20" and then "9") was maybe the worst boite I've ever seen in terms of talent. The facility was nice enough -- beds on site, sauna and pool, etc. -- but every girl there was at least 20-30 pounds overweight. There were about 10 of them. That's 300 fucking unwanted pounds of garota, my friends! Again, maybe your luck will be better.

The town of Maceio is nice enough, with no visible crime problem as far as the tourist is concerned. I think your best bet is the streets, "to pick up the easy meat."

ItalyOnTheRoad mentions below the hut-bar scene along the beach. While plenty (of huts), I found no girls in 3 nights in Maceio. Dunno.

Incidentally, Lonely Planet recommends a "disco" in town called "Aeropourco" (I think that's how it's spelled). When asking the front-desk staff for directions to it, the girl smiled and said it was a boite. It was closed when I checked it out. Again, dunno.

Did check out "Arena" disco, though. It was your typical PACKED-TO-THE-WALLS Brasilian club. No apparent working girls, though. Kabang!


Happy Hunting,
JWadd

Can anyone provide a fuller sketch of Joao Pessoa?

TIA,
JW

I recently met in Barbarella those two brunettes cuties who came from Uberlandia (Minas Gerais) : they were fresh, very pretty and gave me the desire to visit this city : has anyone some infos about the scene there ?

Thanks in advance

Pro

JOAO PESSOA, BRASIL:

Well, the scene here is pretty primative. No boites, discos, termas or sex-clubs to speak of -- which is unbelievable in a city of this size (appartently there's one ultra-low-end boite in Centro that taxi drivers wouldn't even take me too 'cause it's too dangerous!).

But, despite all of this, there's an o.k. SW scene along the beach. The action starts just in front of the can't-miss round-about that has a Banco do Brasil a little up the street (away from the ocean). The SW scene runs north up the beach for about a 1/4 mile. On any given night, there're about 50 girls workin' it. Many surprisingly cute.

Many of the girls also hang out in the numerous open-air bars. If you see a girl (or girls) hangin' out solo and giving you the eye, well, enough said. The girls seemed to cluster on the far end of this section of beach, just past the last internet cafe, and running on for about another 1000 feet (again, all of this is "to the north" -- or, "with the sea to your consistent right").

Prices were the standard 50R. Irritatingly, there're no sex-motels close by. You have to jump into a cab and drive out to the big sex-motel complex on the outskirts of town (about 10-15R via cab). No big deal, but I personally hate these sex-motels. They typically take too much time to get to, get you a room, get you the bill, then a cab, etc. Maybe I should get back into the habit of bringing the girls back to my hotel room.

I'm sure I missed some basics in this city. I looked and looked and questioned about 10 cabbies -- and no one knew of any significant boites, discos, etc. Again, weird in a city this size. Maybe you'll have better luck.

Happy Hunting,
JWadd

JWadd, 'bout Maceio.

The working girl bar is not in Maceio, but some kilometers far away, going north. You can't miss it, is the only Forrò/Lampiao bar with live music all night long. It is 3 or 4 km north of Ponta Verde beach, any cab rider should know it.

I never visited the Club 209 boite, but I visited twice the Cocktail bar one. I had a very different feeling, 'cos I found there so many 8 and 9 girls... with just a couple of under 6 ones. Maybe I was very lucky.
One nite I went there on a saturday night, I thought it should be full of coustomers, but I was the only one and so many girls available. As reported, I had my best brasilian experience there, with Kelly, a little beautiful loirinha.
Of course, YMMV... but I'm sorry to read that you were disappointed.

IOTR

P.S. Aereoporco disco, such as the twinned Arena disco, are strictly no-working girl discos! Any working girls there told me that. Both seems to opens from thursday to saturday only.

ItalyOnTheRoad: Thanks for the info. I'm in Fortaleza now, gettin' more game than a ref.

Ciao 'migo,
JW

CANOA QUEBRADA, BRASIL:

Canoa Quebrada (CQ) is a very small town about 6 hours along the coast (NW) from Natal, and about 3 hours from Fortaleza (SE). It is primarily accessible from it's larger neighboring town, Aracati (in which there's nothing to see or do).

CQ itself, though, is somewhat of a local legend -- and I can't believe it hasn't be written up here before. It has a scene a little like Goa, India -- beach/hammocks, imported local chicks, reggae (wink), paradise beaches with no one on them, open-air palm-roof bars, one main road, cheap, etc. I really recommend checking it out.

I was there on a Weds.-Thurs. and the sporting scene was a little slow. Apparently the town parties until its foundation cracks on the weekend, though -- with many girls from the surrounding areas coming in for the sex.

Indeed, many pousadas list their prices with "guest" fees alongside the regular room rate. It's really mellow here. Everyone knows the function of CQ as far as the tourist is concerned -- reggae and pussy. Everything seems really out in the open -- but granted, there isn't much to do here other than drinks, screw, beach and buggy rides. Twist my arm.

No boites, discos, or sex motels. Prices are low. Just bring 'em back to your pousada or take them down to the beach. It's like that.

Happy Hunting,
JWadd

i was there more or less a year ago. i got there with a girl i brought back from Fortaleza. I didn't know that this small town had so much "business" otherwise i probably would have come alone...stayed at pousada California or something like that....the girl that runs it looked pretty open to her customers and i saw her hanging around at night in the bars of the main street: Broadway (i think it's the name of that dust street that cuts the village in 2)...
U R right Jwadd that this place deserves more attention, but who wants to get up early to jump in a van for a 3-4 hour drive after a night of drinking and pounding? maybe 3% of the fellow gringos...

cheers!

Haha. You're right. Here's to the 3%!

JW