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Accommodation in Barra do Sahy, Barra do Una and Praia do Forte

We’ve made another update in Accommodation in Brazil, with three new blog posts with full listings of accommodation in Barra do Sahy and Barra do Una in the state of São Paulo and Praia do Forte in the state of Bahia.

Top 10: beaches (seen from above)

You might remember this blog’s entry on our top 10: beaches, published quite a while ago. This new entry is a reworking of the original list, to which we have added satellite images of the beaches. Sweet dreams of crystal water beaches!
1. Praia do Sancho, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco.
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2. Praia dos Porcos, Fernando de [...]

Costa dos Alcatrazes

I have recently published a series of posts on my Blog de São Paulo (in Spanish) on the Costa dos Alcatrazes, a stretch of coast on the state of São Paulo that contains some really wonderful beaches (see map next).

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The Costa dos Alcatrazes is a couple of hours away from São Paulo. [...]

Birds from the Atlantic Rainforest

One thing that makes the beaches of the northern coast of São Paulo (and the southern coast of Rio, and other bits further south) unique is that they are found right by the Atlantic rainforest. The biodiversity of the Mata Atlántica, as the forest is known in Portuguese, is unrivalled. The scenery too. The sequence [...]

Beaches on the state of São Paulo

The distance from the city of São Paulo to the shore is relatively short, and there is no shortage of beaches along the coastline.

The coast of the state of São Paulo is divided in two large regions:

the north coast (litoral norte), from Ubatuba, on the border with the state of Rio de Janeiro, to Bertioga. [...]