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And yes, I am in Maceio, a place known to brasilians as a place for holidays, but not so well known to Gringos... From this moment on after Salvador, I decided to only go to places where the gringos do not go!!! It is easier, generally cheaper, and I have better insights about how the people live actually...

Yes here in Brasil it is a culture. All the main big cities other than Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo have beaches nearby, just remember you are in Brasil!!!! And generally staying around the beach areas is more pleasant than staying in other areas around the city. So this is the main beach "majuara" if I remember its name correctly, after there praia (beach in brasilian portuguese) ponta verde starts. By the way, my portuguese is good enough to communicate with locals from now on, so I will practice my brasilian portuguese throughout the trip to have a better understanding of brasilian culture =) , meet leticia

And meet the palm trees!!

And leticia with the palm trees =). Of course I was jealous of and I took a picture with a palm tree too =)

Meet Tais. She is an accountant who is one of the lucky ones to have work in Maceio for a few days.. And meet Nilda, she is a student in Maceio, will start university next year..

Meet Elizabette, right now she is studying on a course for law school.. And tired of practicing my portuguese, time for practicing my forro =) (Forro is a dance very famous in the north eastern part of brasil, its center is Fortaleza, and you can always find some bar playing forro with youngsters dancing it all night. It is easy to learn and has a very vibrant and energetic music)

And of course after all those nights we need a relaxing holiday, right =)? Now I head for the famous beaches of maceio, two of them who earned their places on hall of fame top 10 for brasil for me... Our first beach is Praia Frances..

I really loved those palm trees that are so dense near the praia, especially with the water evaporating from the sea and forming a mist around the jungle, it has a very mystic feeling, which reminds me of my times in Machu Picchu (man I have been travelling long, it seems so far but it was only 2 months ago!!)... After Praia Frances, we head up for the second best beach I have ever seen in my life after Lopez mendez, if not the first.. Meet Praia do Gungas. Located 50-60 km away south from Maceio, the beach surrounds the water nearly, and in the middle of the surrounded water there is another small island of a beach where the sand is barely above the water and island is impossible to locate when swimming as it is very low and hidden by waves. after that beautiful part of the praia, the second part starts where there is a peak of the beach with many palm trees on the edge, which is start of a continuous strand of beach that goes up more than 5 km. ( I only walked a little bit more than half of it..).. The water has a very beautiful variety in color and the beach is very deserted in the further parts. If I swam I would be the only one swimming within a region of 1 km.

You remember the island in the middle of water?

I told you that the beach has a very beautiful variety in colors didnt I?

And about the peak of palm trees.

Peak of the palm trees with me... And the beach from some other angle..

The thing I like about beaches in brasil is that the sand is extremely thin and fine grained, it is like as if it is a grain of salt. In Turkey the beaches are beautiful but the grain of the sand is not always so good as in brasil, it is more like pebbles around the beach, here it is all soo smoothed up thanks to the waves of the atlantic. And the second thing I like more about the brasilian beaches is the abundance of the palm trees just near the beach, which is also something you dont find that frequent in Turkey either. But we have definitely much more to show than just beaches (with all the archeological sites, bazaars and better handicrafts, and more interesting villages, with a heaven like cappa docchia (just being a little bit patriotic =) ).

The colors and palm peaks of sand revisited...

Me revisited =)

And of course time to get some interesting photography thanks to the lazy fishermen =)

I like the clouds in this picture, it is as if they are trying to tell a story, we are in the middle of a deserted island with palm trees and suddenly a genie comes up from the lamp of Alaaddin (look at the shape of the clouds), we have three wishes. Unfortunately we have nothing more to wish as we are already in Paradise =). And of course the clouds can form good composition with stuff other than the palm trees too =)

The part of the beach I was lazy to complete =)... The picture I tried to take to make up for the distance ( just an excuse)

Another beautiful coral giving a nice pose to me.. And my shoes want to join my lazy composition too =)

Always we look at the sea from the beach, we never wonder how the beach looks from the sea... As you see we may be missing a lot =)... And of course a goodbye pose from Praia do Gungas, the second most beautiful beach in my life...

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