Praia da Pipa (1-3/Oct/06)

Praia da Pipa, Brazil

It's quite a luxury when you can say "naah, not to impressed, lets just stay a couple of days" in a place with amazing long semi-deserted beaches, beautiful weather, and where you can swim with dolphins in one bay and with sea turtles in the next. But that is what has happened in Pipa, billed as "second to Jericoacoara" in the wonderful Lonely Planet. It's not bad here at all, just a bit too classy (and expensive-ish) for us. The town itself is a bit like Puerto Banus / Marbella (lately I seem to be comparing everything to Spain, am I getting homesick? I think not, more like life's a beach and therefore easy to compare to my home country), but smaller and with beaches a million times better. A couple of days seem enough, plus we have a few things to see before Ainhoa & Niall arrive in Salvador...