Brazil Roadtrip 2023

[Canuckster]

Beautiful pics man, and not a chemtrail in the sky in any of your shots.......looked. Like a lot of fun

[Som-Pong]

It's a living country

[Masato]

The next day we woke up and went to the old part of the city. Hundreds of years of history in this city, it's pretty weird as a Canadian to see

There was a weird Alcatraz looking building half a mile from the shore, it was explained that it was where the slave ships would drop off their slaves from Europe/Africa etc before taking them to the market. Many would have been ill from the boat conditions, or had already died. The surviving stock would be held there until ready for sale. Anyways that building is still there, it just sits right in the main port. Super weird
I didn't take a picture of it
...but if you turned 90degrees to the right from this picture you'd see it out there in the water


I forget how old this thing is but its pretty old lol. Was used to lift goods from the boats below to the city above. The history here is almost palpable in the air


Anyways here is the old part of Salvador. I'd been here before 20 years ago, in the sunlight it is a color wonderland. But this day was cloudy so it was almost unrecognizable lol



We found this church that is like 350 years old that claims the inside to be all gold. It kinds looks like it and is damn amazing but I think a lot of it was just golden paint lol Maybe I'm wrong but it would have been a lot of gold lol

[Masato]

Then we finally got the rental car and started driving north.
GPS fucking rules, I don't know what else to say. I almost can't believe people used to do road trips without them back in the day lol

Here is some place that had a Turtle preservation sanctuary or something like that. But it was not the time of turtle season for much to see. Was a cool little town and beach though

[Masato]

Next stop was ARACAJU

We came in late at night. Driving at night in Brazil is weird because night time there is somehow WAY darker than in Canada. The sun goes down and there is simply no more light lol its dark as fuck.

Here is a skatepark I found walking around at night by the beach after we arrived.


Hotel view from Aracaju


The beach was huge, and nobody was there lol


My kids wanted to surf, so we found a local surf teacher to give them a lesson. He said he had some suit job but recently gave it all up to teach surfing to tourists and apparently it was a good decision lol


My son however pulled his shoulder out from a previous injury. We couldn't pop it back in so my wife took the kids to the hospital and sent me back to the hotel. I did not complain lol and finished this book by the pool until they were back
The book is excellent by the way, I might make a thread about it one day

[Masato]

Next stop was Maceió

View from hotel room - across from another skatepark


View from the hotel top floor:


There are some top beaches around here so we drover around and found a few. Spectacular indeed


BRAZIL HAS THE BEST FOOD IN THE WORLD
Challenge me, lol

This pineapple is FILLED with fat shrimp and a cheese sauce. I ate shrimp almost every day lol


We found a lookout tower that had a pretty great view:


More beaches to check out. Each one was a slightly different vibe/geography it was pretty interesting

[Masato]

I will post more chapters later

Cheers

[Lester Burnham]

Thanks for sharing, Masato!

[Masato]

Then we drove late again (sun goes down hard like 5-6pm) and arrived in MARAGOGI at night.

A funny little beach town known for good scuba and snorkelling. The smaller the town, the cheaper you can get awesome places to stay. This little pousada was a hidden oasis. It was down a shitty sidestreet, but you go through the gate and there was this awesome little world right on the beach










We took a whole day to chill here, wash some clothes, sleep, and re-group.
Everyone was OK with that lol






The tide was SUPER far out that morning. Very cool to walk around. Amazing how much water rises and falls its pretty weird imo.

[Masato]

We took a small boat out to go snorkelling. At low tide in the mornings these natural tide pools form, and tons of fish are trapped in them until high tide. They are perfect for swimming in with fishes

I don't like using my camera much when I'm out on the water so all the snorkelling pics are on Mrs Masato's or the kids' phones.

Sorry, lol

But it was pretty good. tons of fish everywhere swimming around you.

this is the only picture on my roll: