Locate in the Porto Seguro District, and very near Arraial De Ajuda, Pitinga beach is for sure one of the most beautiful beaches in the state of Bahia, which means, one of the best beaches in Brazil. In front of the beach there is a big mountain, full of green vegetation, that gives you the idea, while you are swimming of being in a lost paradise. There are a lot of swimming pools in Pitinga Beach, and you can take a bath there while colorful fishes swim around you.

The beach has a very good infrastructure, because you can find almost whatever you want, but does not loose the sense of virginity.

WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO GO – HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
Is recommendable to book your accommodation before coming because you will not find good hotels in Pitinga Beach, although resorts and villas are excellent and put you more in contact with nature.

The best way to arrive to Pitinga Beach is to fly to the city of Porto Seguro, if you can find a direct flight from your home. If not you should fly to Sao Paulo, Recife or Rio de Janeiro and from there to Porto Seguro. You should check Varig Airlines, Gol Airlines and TAM airlines.

Morro de Sao Paulo (St. Paul’s Hill) is one of the most desired tropical destinations in the world, and ranks very high in the Top Brazil’s Beaches, because it still has clean sand, palm trees, crystal and warm water containing colorful fish living in deserted beaches.

Just for you to imagine, the Morro is a kind of volcano, with the beaches on the bottom, and the houses (or “pousadas”, as the local says) in the top. So you can live at the top of hill with a fantastic landscape, and go down just to go to the beach. To make things quieter, cars are prohibited in Morro do Sao Paulo. Only four wheel drives and tractors are used to access the more remote spots, and there are no streets, just alleys.

WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO GO – HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
The beach has a good infrastructure, and in recent years it has a big development, but it is still recommendable to book your accommodation before coming. You will not find good hotels in Morro do Sao Paulo, although resorts and villas are excellent and put you more in contact with nature.

The best way to arrive to Morro do Sao Paulo is to fly to the city of Salvador, if you can find a direct flight from your home. If not you should fly to Sao Paulo, Recife or Rio de Janeiro and from there to Salvador. You should check Varig Airlines, Gol Airlines and TAM airlines.

From Salvador you can catch a direct fly to Morro de Sao Paulo, and you will be there in only 20 minutes. Otherwise you can go by sea, bus or car and the travel is not difficult.

ACTIVITIES
But Morro de Sao Paulo is not only about peace and tranquility, as the village is an example of simplicity combined with all the attractions that you can imagine: restaurants and bars where you can always find “caipirinha” drinks with crazy Brazilian music, boutiques selling top brand products, “capoeira” dancers, and amazing dancing clubs on the beach with their exclusive beach parties.

MORE BEACHES IN MORRO
There are different beaches, most of them named by numbers, with their own particularities in Morro do Sao Paulo:

The First Beach is perfect for surfing: the best waves on the island that come with a swell that reaches its greatest height from the East, breaking from two to six feet over a coral reef.

The Second Beach is famous for its nightlife. Well known especially among young people, parties go on invariably until the sun rises. The staircase that leads to Second beach is amazing, you can see the vastness of blue waters that surround the island, and the sandy bottom during low tide.

The Third Beach is ideal for people who loves natural pools, and also is the best one for diving due to Caitá Island, formed by a large barrier of coral reefs, offering coral and fish of all colors and shapes, and also a great variety of equipment, from a mask and snorkel to a full set of diving equipment. If you want to make friends while diving, group boat trips can be arranged as well, but if you prefer being alone an interesting option is to paddle your way to the beach by kayak.

The Fourth Beach seems to have no end, having four kilometers of extension. It concentrates the largest hotels and resorts, and is definitely the beach where you will love to have your residence while in Morro, because is quiet but is also near to the other beaches.

The Enchantment Beach (Encanto Beach) is one of the most beautiful beaches in the Morro do Sao Paulo, as you have two kilometers of almost desert beach, creating the sensation that you are alone on a island. You can also take a nice baths in its deep ocean pools.

Garapua, is a beach isolated between mangroves, and you will only find a small fisherman’s village and some restaurants. The most exciting way to visit this beach is by hicking or renting a horse and taking an amazing trail through the forest.

Pratigi or Pontal Beach, is definitely the longest beach at Morro do Sao Paulo, with 10 kilometers, and also the most desertic. Is hard and complicated to access this beach, and you should take a three day expedition by trekking through danger hills, but you will definitely love the ride!

Gamboa, is a beach famous for its mud that it says to have skin treatment properties, and that the local says it improve your sexual capacity! You should take a day trip to know this beach, leaving from the village and if you are tired, returning by boat.

WHEN TO GO
The temperature is warm trough the whole year, with an average of 25.3°, but you should avoid the rainy season from May to July.

Canoa Quebrada is an old and small village installed on cliffs that was discovered and popularized by the hippies in the sixties. This beach has transparent water surrounded by enormous multicolored dunes. From the top of these dunes, you could see what the locals call “the magic sunset” or, at night of full moon, the sea becomes a silver mirror where you can see a dancing moon moving across the sea.

The nature of this beach is fragile, and for that reason a special attention must be given to the dunes and cliffs and any construction in the beach is allowed only after a detailed study and considering that destruction of the vegetation is prohibited. This beach is in a Protected Area that was created in 1998 to protect the area and keep untouched all natural attractions as well as local flora and fauna.

WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO GO – HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
The beach has a good infrastructure, and in recent years it has a big development, but it is still recommendable to book your accommodation before coming. As happens normally in this kind of beach you will not find big hotels like in other Brazil cities but excellent villas. The beach is located 164 Kms from Fortaleza. The nearest airport is Pinto Martins in Fortaleza, capital of Ceara State. To this airport there are local flights coming daily, mainly of the following airlines: Gol, Tam and Varig. If you are coming from Europe you can check Tap Air Portugal and if you are coming from United States or Canada, you should check United Airlines for flights to Rio de Janeiro and combinations. But the best thing to do is to check the web for cheap flights to Brazil.

The Ipanema beach is one of the best beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and one of the most famous of the world. Immortalized in worldwide well-known song of Tom Jobim, “Garota de Ipanema”, that in fact was based on the beauty of the beach and the grace and the sexuality of the Brazilian women, Ipanema is one of these beaches that not only stand out for his beauty, but also for the adrenaline that surrounds it: many persons, bars, restaurants, movement . exactly the opposite from a beach to find peace and calmness, but the ideal beach to know the Brazilian culture and to make friends.

Also, Ipanema is located in an expensive quarter of Rio de Janeiro, reason for being considered to be the beach more “chic” of the “wonderful city”. Ipanema divides his approximately 2 kilometers long, in different sectors like the familiar, the one for lonely girls, the homosexuals part, the sports one, etc.

WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO GO – HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
In Ipanema you can find great variety of hotels as it happens almost everywhere in Rio de Janeiro. In particular, Ipanema is an excellent zone of the city due to the safety levels that the government had developed in recent years.

Obviously, in order to come to Ipanema it is necessary to come first to Rio de Janeiro. This is very simple, since the principal cities of the world have several airlines connecting this Brazilian city.

ACTIVITIES
Ipanema offers many activities inside the beach environment, like aquatic sports, beach soccer, beach volley and others. Out of the beach, in Ipanema you can find many bars, restaurants and centers of spectacles that invite to enjoy the night of Rio de Janeiro.

WHEN TO GO
Ipanema is a destination for the whole year, since his warm temperature invites to visit it at all the seasons. Nevertheless, in the Brazilian summer, December to March, the temperature can be very high and although the Carnival is during this season, the city is saturated often of visitors and the prices of hotels and flights it can be high.

A lot of activities can be done in this beach: for surfing, Pipa has excellent waves; for canoeing this beach also count with calm waters surrounded by lovely sceneries; for horse riding you can explore trails through the Atlantic forest. In this beach the concept of luxurious villa has taken another step and you can find villas even better that some hotels in Brazil.

WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO GO – HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
Pipa’s beach is definitely an excellent beach to stay in one of its wonderful villas. Usually the room of the villas in Pipa’s beach have spectacular views to the ocean and keeps a high level of comfort.

The beach is located 164 Kms from Fortaleza. The nearest airport is Pinto Martins in Fortaleza, capital of Ceara State. To this airport there are local flights coming daily, mainly of the following airlines: Gol, Tam and Varig. If you are coming from Europe you can check Tap Air Portugal and if you are coming from United States or Canada, you should check United Airlines for flights to Rio de Janeiro and combinations. But the best thing to do is to check the web for cheap flights to Brazil.

WHEN TO GO
In Praia da Pipa the temperature is about 25° the whole year, so you can go whenever you want to.

OTHER BEACHES NEAR PIPA
In the nearby of Pipa, you could find some other beautiful beaches. Here are some of them:

- Baia dos Golfinhos (Dolphin’s Bay), is obviously, the dolphins´ favorite bay where you can see them play, move and dance.

Praia do Amor (Love Beach), is famous for the good conditions for surfing, and also is the beach for the young and cool people that find the place ideal for romance.

The Copacabana beach is probably the most famous beach in Brazil, and why not, one of the most famous beaches in the world. But what does that this beach so famous? The first explanation is that Copacabana is one of the beaches in Rio de Janeiro, the wonderful city, where resides Christ, one of the seven modern marvels and a symbol of Brazil. In addition to that, Copacabana is a 4 kilometers long wide beach framed by the hills of Rio de Janeiro and where millions of “cariocas” (the inhabitants of Rio) meet to enjoy what the Brazilians more like: beach, the sun, beer and nice women in bikinis.

It is certainly one of the most crowded beaches of Brazil, and for that reason it has the necessary infrastructure to attend so many clients. Restaurants, pubs, street vendors, infinity of courts of Beach Volley, and an incomparable whirlpool, turns Copacabana in the New York of the beaches, where everything happens, where the people socialize, coexist and enjoy the beauty of his waters. Immersed in Samba rhythm, Copacabana presents itself as the ideal beach to meet and to contact the Brazilians. Of course, when the sun falls down or when is very strong, there can be covered all the tourist attractions that Rio de Janeiro offers: Redeeming Christ, the Botanical garden, the mythical stadium Maracaná and much more.

WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO GO – HOTELS AND FLIGHTS
The 4 km of the Copacabana beach are full of hotels of all kinds, with which their more than 20 are 5 stars, of which the most famous is Copacabana Palace. The beaches in front of the beach are the most expensive, and the ones far from the beach are normally cheaper.

Going to Copacabana is quite simple: most of the cities of the world have direct connection with Rio de Janeiro, and once there, we are already in Copacabana. Besides several daily connections exist between San Pablo and Rio de Janeiro, so if your city does not connect with Rio de Janeiro, for sure it will connect with San Pablo.

ACTIVITIES
Rio de Janeiro has a wide variety of activities. The refined gastronomy offers all kinds of forms at the time of eating: the “churrascarías”, which are the restaurants where it is possible to eat everything what is wished by only one ticket, or also the most traditional restaurants à la carte. In some of these restaurants it is kind of obligatory to taste the Brazilian national plate: the “feijoada”, a dish made with rice and potatoes that combines several exotic ingredients.

When the night comes Copacabana has a strong offer of discotheques and pubs, which mix local music with international and which assure the diversion until the morning.

WHEN TO GO
Copacabana has a very tropical climate, which favors the rains and the moisture, and in the summer the temperatures can come to more from 40 °, for that reason is better to go after March until July.