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Praia do Forte: photo album

I have finished uploading the Praia do Forte photo album, with images of the village, its beaches, its natural pools and its turtles.
A charming square with a chapel right by the beach.

The wonderful natural pools.

Where you don’t have to get your feet wet to have fun following the little fish comings and goings.

The Projeto Tamar [...]

Penguins in Brazil

During the subtropical winter, penguins appear along the Brazilian on a regular basis. There is hardly anything unusual about a penguin found along the coast of São Paulo, for instance. From the border with Uruguay up to the state of Rio de Janeiro, Magellanic penguins are spotted on a regular basis.

The incredibly unusual fact widely [...]

Quero-quero

If walking outdoors is your kind of thing, you are likely to come across a couple of quero-queros (Southern Lapwing, Vanellus chilensis), a very common bird in South America outside the Amazon basin and the Andean region.

Quero-queros build their nests on the ground. If someone comes close to the nests, they defend them very aggresively. [...]

Top 10: strong emotions

I am presenting my very own personal list of 10 moments lived in Brazil filled with emotion. They do not follow any particular order.

a huge turtle (up until then you had never stopped to think how large turtles can be) swimming placidly next to you, in complete silence; suddenly a shoal of fish swims by [...]

Where can I see dolphins in Brazil?

There are dolphins all along the Brazilian coastline, as well as a river dolphin, pink in colour, that lives in the Amazon, the boto (Inia geoffrensis).
A few places where dolphins can be seen real close:
Fernando de Noronha

From the viewpoint at the top of the Baia dos Golfinhos you can contemplate on a daily basis the [...]