BEST OF BRAZIL BOIPEBA ISLAND | BAHIA 2021
good morning everyone so it's day two on the beautiful island of boipeba here in bahia so if you watched yesterday's video we came from that direction over there which is where we got the boat to arrive on the island, and today we're going to explore the side of the island which is this way so over this hill here theres supposed to be the nicest beaches here on the island, so we're gonna check those out. looks like we got lucky with the weather today. yeah finally yeah the previous days was just rainy. yeah yesterday it was rainy and then it opened up a bit but it was too late to do anything so we just stayed home and we walked a little bit but we couldn't do much because we didn't know if it was gonna rain but today we have this good weather yeah it looks beautiful today so hopefully it stays like this all day. so right next to the beach there's this trail here and this is the trail that will take us all the way to the other beaches so when we arrived it looked like our bungalows were the final ones on the beach but there's actually loads of other buildings all the way down here. what is that? i don't know. eat it. no it's not safe. the poison yeah so these are the beaches that we want to go to tassimirin, cueira and morere so they're all in this direction and this is where the proper jungle trail starts, so just like two minutes from where we're staying it's all wild. the cool thing about this island is the majority of the trails are like this aren't they? yeah it's like a big jungle everywhere and they're like different species of plants and trees like it's very different from other places that we've seen especially in rio. yeah i think this is wilder than rio even? yeah it looks like it.
yeah there seems to be more of a variety, look at this like proper jungle around here. so when you're walking around the island there isn't really that many proper roads, so a lot of the places are just like this to get between the different areas, just these cool trails everywhere so this is apparently the fanciest resort here on the island. pousada mangabeiras, so it's up there can actually see some of the the buildings on the hillside, and check it out they even have an elevator in the middle of the jungle to take the guests up pretty sure that's the only one with an elevator here how much was it to stay here? i think you checked didn't you? yeah i think it was two thousand reaiis. two thousand reaiis. maybe too expensive for us yeah. yeah so you see this big thing everywhere around here on loads of the trees so i think it's termites, we think that's what it is anyway i'm not not sure. in portuguese you call it cupim, like a big termite nest huge they're everywhere right? yeah we see some big ones like there's one over there oh look at that one. oh wow yeah, look at that it's a huge one they're taking over so like we mentioned it has been raining a lot so this area here is all like swampy no way to avoid it and this is the first beach so i think this one is tassimirim isn't isn't it? yeah the name, tassimirim yes it only took about 15 to 20 minutes overall from where we're staying and it's way more beautiful on this side so this area here has some natural pools when the tide goes down it's supposed to go down today around like 1 - 2 p.m so i think when it's really low you can even just walk to it
so i don't know if we'll be doing that today, i think some of the beaches that we are going to in a in a while also have the natural pool so yeah maybe we will be able to see them. we're not planning on doing the boat trips though but you can do that so even though the beach is pretty remote you still get some little shacks here, restaurants and bars. i think they only open later on when we came here the the other day they were open. look at this one so it's called cabana flor do caribe, flower of the caribbean check out this donkey here "bom dia" yeah so you'll see donkeys and horses all over this island, a lot of people ride them around here since theres no cars and then they use them for transport like that one so we decided to stop at one of the little beach shacks that are open to get some cold coconuts. yeah i'm thirsty. yeah i'm thirsty too. ah this guy's got a surfboard i guess there's surfing around here. so for two coconuts and a water it cost us 19 reais overall wow yeah this coconut is extra sweet, have you tasted it yet? yeah it's almost like they put sugar on it but i know they wouldn't but it's very very sweet. yeah i honestly think that's the sweetest
coconut i've ever tasted, like carol said it's like they've added sugar bizarre. so we kind of screwed up, we forgot to bring our wallet with all our money and our cards in and the guy already brought us the drinks but luckily here in brazil they have something called pix which is an online transfer, so since i have a bank account here with bradesco a brazilian bank i can pay them over the app. but we did need internet so we got lucky that this little shack here has internet didn't expect it to have wi-fi but yeah they have good wi-fi here so i was able to pay that way so this right here is the second beach called praia da cueira, the same beach where we just drank the coconuts. so the first one was just back there a small one, but this one cueira is
huge it goes all the way down there. and then i think the the final one morere is over there isn't it? yeah it's around the corner. and how long did the guy say it was overall from where were staying? i think around seven kilometers, seven kilometers. yeah something like that. yeah so quite a bit of walking. so just like everywhere in the northeast of brazil you have the never ending
coconut trees all the way down, even going inland it seems to never end when i filmed with the drone. so i know that a lot of international travelers usually go to rio de janeiro probably the most famous spot for international tourism in brazil ,so if you go there there is an island that's pretty similar to here called ilha grande which translates to big island and that's actually mine and carol's favorite place in rio so if you want this kind of experience definitely worth going to there, it's only a few hours from the center of rio and it's just amazing, super relaxed, also doesn't have cars and stuff so it's a very similar vibe. a bit more touristy than here but you can still find loads of empty spots so to get to this final spot we have to cross this river, i think you can only cross really at a low tide without getting soaked anyway so i'm not sure where the best spot is just like a lot of the rivers in northeast it's the brownie orange color. i guess there's some sort of substance in the water that makes it that color around this region. i don't know where the path is though to the other side? yeah i don't even know if we can cross without getting wet because i can't see the floor or anything. yeah look how nice this looks though so you got the huge beach back there, some black looking sand and then this calm little river here so we just saw some locals cross this part here and they didn't even look knee height so we're gonna cross this part where they crossed, seems safe. wow look at that color
carol's got her waterproof camera not waterproof at all. no that's why i'm holding like this. just don't fall. yeah. yeah so we've also got to pass this part here but super shallow as well man this island is absolutely beautiful though, look at this i think this is probably one of the most peaceful places we've ever been? yeah yeah for brazil that's a bit rare to find especially in the beach destinations of bahia and the northeast so yeah i think we found a hidden gem, all right flip flops back on That's what i call a nice pathway. yeah. i think these horses are wild aren't they? yeah they look they look like wild horses. yeah they're not tied up or anything hello don't think we had seen cows yet on this island? no. just horses and donkeys yeah baby cow and then big family back there and i think the beach that we're trying to get to is just right here now all right this is it morere so this is probably the nicest beach of them all out of all the ones that we've visited so far on this island, got the nice powdery white sand and this has the nicest ocean color, got loads of different shades of blue there. a lot clearer than the other places. carol i had no idea that bahia had water like this?! yeah it's a surprise even for me it's like a water of uh different shades of green and blue. yeah so it's almost similar to porto de galinhas and maragogi. yeah but here is empty which is
great. yeah those places were jam-packed. yeah this place almost looks like caribbean style really so right here on the coast these are already some of the reefs the boat tours will take you all the way out there though, you could probably even walk i don't know it looks pretty shallow sleepy beach dog of the day, chubby beach dog, been eating well you want some belly rub. look at that big belly big belly so look at this part here, the reef is joined right next to the beach like this area has nowhere that you can swim really, literally touching the sand so i could see that on the drone from above how close it was. all this region here ah those guys got a little pool over there though so we're walking to the far opposite side of the same beach morere and this side is less deserted so there's some spots to stay here. kind of looks like more of a hippie vibe, the people
that we saw look like hippies and the places that you can stay look a bit like hippie-ish. carol i think if we were to come back we would have stayed around here. yeah we we asked the recommendations from our friends and they said that area is more lively so that's why we decided to stay in the center of velha boipeba but i think we prefer this area here because it's way more beautiful, the beach and also the vibe of the places that we we keep saying. it just seems to be better. yeah especially the beaches these are the best beaches that we've seen on the island by far, looks amazing. and even back here there's still loads of nice accommodations as well so
it's not all hippie places. got this area here that kind of seems like fancy bungalows, moda & africa so we've come to this really cool spot here to get a bite to eat, it's called ventos super cool and here's the menu. so i think i want to get a juice that's 10 reaiis i think for the juice. what are you going to eat? oh maybe fish i don't know, they also have a vegetarian dish but i don't know, maybe i'll stick with the fish. is that for one person 76, 76 okay
and i think i'm going to get a falafel which is 60 reaiis, don't usually eat that we're heading back to the center of boipeba now but we don't have to walk back, there are forms of transport so you can get like a quad taxi that's an option but there's also a tractor that takes people there. a tractor that pulls a cart so gonna try and get that. yeah i think we need to run. need to run? theres one over there. is he waiting for us? i don't know. yeah, haha run! carol the first time in a tractor cart, tractor bus i dont know i have no idea how much this is yeah that's some of the coolest public transport i've ever seen that was an adventure yeah the dog was enjoying it people surfing on the outside so i think out of all the spots in bahia this was by far the best yeah and yeah we we didn't stay in the best area but still i think we loved boipeba a lot yeah. yeah we wish we had stayed in murere but even around here everything's awesome. it's all super local
i think that's why we like it so much, it's like really local, it doesn't feel that touristy at all. yeah the nature is just so beautiful everything is like a jungle it's beautiful and the the beaches are awesome so everything is perfect. yeah and just super peaceful, everything so this is the end of our trip here in boipeba tomorrow we're going to be leaving unfortunately and it's the end of our trip in bahia, we really don't feel ready to go yet we're loving exploring these remote beach destinations in bahia and this place just has a unique vibe it's different to rio. i think overall in brazil this is the place where we've enjoyed the vibe the most the people and it's just an amazing place to visit. and i might as well mention that there's a cool restaurant here that we went to for our wedding anniversary called ceu do boipeba so it's a restaurant that's high up and we didn't get any sunset shots because it was cloudy but you still get some amazing views so definitely worth checking out if you're coming here it's really close to where we're staying like a 15 minute walk since we're in brazil we always get asked about how safe places are, so places like this are just insanely safe probably safer than where a lot of you guys are living if you're living in cities. so brazil always has this thing with the safety, a lot of people abroad have this image that it's just super dangerous everywhere but that's just not true at all. it's like any
country, so in the main capitals the big cities you obviously have more problems, more violence, more chance of being pickpocketed, stuff like that. but if you go to quiet places like this there's no risk at all, even on the beach here you can leave your belongings on the beach unattended, nothing's going to happen. so it's a similar thing to any other country really, if you go to little quiet villages in any other country the chance of having issues are way less. so it's not all of brazil at all. and even in the big cities i still think it's a bit over exaggerated, some people make rio out to be like the gaza strip or something super dangerous like that and it's not that at all, if you if you pay attention the chance of anything happening to you are still very slim. i mean i've been coming to brazil ever since i was
a kid, almost every year and i lived in rio for six years and nothing ever happened to me here now like four months filming with cameras and nothing ever happens, so yeah it is exaggerated that's for sure. but there are many places like this, amazing places like this where you can basically be completely risk-free. so if that's something you're worried about just avoid big cities and come and relax in beautiful places like this. so hopefully you enjoyed this video there's a lot more to come here from brazil if you did just drop a like to support us subscribe like see more videos like this follow us on instagram and we'll see you in the next
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