Thursday, April 10, 2014

Weekend 3 - Paradise


So weekend 3 I decided to take a little R&R for myself. Lots of the teams stayed in Recife to enjoy the night life, but 2 other girls and I decided to travel to one of the more remote beaches of the area called Carneiros. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! 

Carneiros is about 2 hours from Recife, but absolutely a world of difference. Think of Recife as Miami Beach and Carneiros would be more like a deserted island off of Key West. I thought Porto was beautiful, but Carneiros beats it hands down. There is only one hotel on the beach, with a couple of restaurants spread out, but the beach and surrounding areas are pretty much isolated with very little civilization – so perfect in my book! It was a weekend of total relaxation. We got to Carneiros on Saturday morning and spent most of the day just laying out on the beach and taking walks around the area.

Our hotel: 



Our walks around the beach:




Imagine having to wake up to this every morning (yes, be jealous!):
On Sunday we took a bought trip around the area - basically the Carneiros beach is where the sea and the ocean meet. Our side of the beach is the sea side, so the tides are very drastic - low tides create sand bars way out into the sea and the boats take you out to hang out on the sand bars. Very, very, very cool:



These are the sand bars that the boat took us to (this is probably a mile out into the water from our beach):


One of the stops we made on the boat ride to some of the more secluded beaches:




One of the more interesting stops we had was when we stopped at a beach where a bunch of other boats had docked and we noticed people were gathering around these buckets of 'stuff.' People were rushing off the boat to get to this 'stuff' and then lathering it on themselves. We come to find out this 'stuff' is natural mud baths that are suppose to have special minerals. It was the funniest sight ever:

So when in Rome do as the Romans, right.. :-)



It was definitely the perfect weekend before a busy week of final presentations and wrapping up.






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