BOIPEBA ISLAND, BRAZIL'S BEST-KEPT SECRET? HIDDEN GEM OF BAHIA, BRAZIL
welcome to uebella we have just entered the tree line the perfect entry to a beach so we are at the famous widows which is famous for their seafood good morning from boy peppa aka paradise this is our first full day and boy peppa so we purposely didn't plan too much we're just gonna walk around and explore and see what we come across in this cute little town island first thing on the agenda already breakfast beautiful weather maybe a little too hot if we're not at the beach if we go this way we go to the beach and all the beach restaurants and if we go this way we go to the village so we're gonna go this way into the village we think we're on our way to the village but surprisingly this doesn't really seem like a route we would take to a village but hey island life operates a little different i guess we have a marsh here we don't know where we're going we don't know if we're going the right way but it's a beautiful walk we're just completely surrounded by these palm trees chirping birds butterflies so here they don't have any cars operating so they have to transport things by donkey so the donkey was carrying all the supplies right there pretty cool this place definitely has a charming little beach feel all these little buildings and cottages are all different colors pretty fun to look at okay it looks like everything was closed in the village we spent about half an hour walking through the village trying to avoid the beach because of the prices and all of that and look where we ended up the beach when we say everything was closed we actually mean everything we weren't being picky all the storefronts were locked no one inside so i guess i don't know why probably because of coven we're not sure if it's because of covid or the time of day but it's not that early or anything but it's probably like 11 o'clock there are a bunch of posadas which serve breakfast to anyone who comes by at least that's what it looked like a bunch of little restaurants cafes all these things everywhere that would normally be open yeah that catered to tourists but they are all closed so we have our options we have about three places that are open that we can see here so we're getting some obosi queso and some juice and coffee and thanks to you guys we learned that in brazil you use napkins to hold the food with this waxy paper so now our hands won't get greasy one great thing about brazil is their juices their fruits and they're for their juices they use fresh squeezed oranges in their orange juice and it is so much better than the juices we usually have back home how was it that is so good yeah back home if you want to get fresh squeeze you're paying like seven dollars for this cup and you get bits of pulp in there so you know it's real that's the coolest thing i've ever seen okay now we are ready to explore a little bit more of the village and then we're gonna go on a short hike to kiera and this is supposed to be a beautiful beach with maybe some snorkeling and great seafood we're thinking we should probably invest in a snorkeling kit because brazil has a lot of great snowfall places with coral reefs we just came by the three wise men i guess it's a christmas decoration they're huge nice baby jesus so we're in what might be the center of the village not many people around right now and we are on our way to a church we can see it up here a big blue church i i believe it's called museo de oso these days maybe turned into museum but it's a famous church pretty cool so this little island of boy peppa was discovered in 1537 making it one of the oldest portuguese settlements in bahia so here we are in front of the church one cool thing about it is you get a pretty good view at the top so in a lot of cities and villages around the world you'll see the church is a centerpiece when the city was being built sometimes it was built around a church but in this case you kind of have to go away from the village to get up here toward the church so that makes this a little bit different maybe that was a purpose maybe it's like a little pilgrimage to get up a hill to get to it one of the coolest things about peppa is there are no cars on this island the only thing that you might find are tractors we haven't seen them around yet but we heard their attractors here on the island awesome looking little village we don't really see many tourists around this area it's just us walking through with some locals you see all the bunch of different colors of the buildings each place is unique it's not very cookie cutter here everything is different this island is littered with palm trees with coconuts on them with mango trees fruits everywhere hopefully there's some acai here if we can find it fun fact coconuts are one of the most dangerous foods in the world i forgot the number but every year coconuts fall off of trees and actually kill people by hitting them on the head it's actually kind of a bigger number than you would think once you start traveling in places like this like southeast asia south america and you see how many coconut trees there are you'll see that they just fall off the coconut trees all the time and if you're below there it could be the end a lot of people have been telling us about moro sao paulo is another island but it's definitely more touristy so i would say in a way this is a hidden gem it's harder to get to so i think that might deter a lot of people who are limited on time or don't want to go the extra mile to make the effort to get here but we're glad we're dead lindsay's walking very flat-footed so that no sand gets on top of the sandal and i'm standing in the shade wow we're getting our first glances at this beach you can see how blue the water is and that's what we like we have just entered the tree line a bunch of palm trees the perfect entry to a beach all right let's go touch this water and see the temperature oh yeah that is bath water oh it's almost warm oh that is perfect all right let's go swim it's like bath water so we found this awesome palm tree here it's the only one on this beach that's kind of laying down over the water almost so i think we're gonna climb up it this lady was just trying to climb up it a few minutes ago and she fell onto this barbed wire fence which is kind of a quarter of the way up take a look at this hopefully we don't fall on it so barb wire you have to climb from over here so easy enough to climb over but let's hope i don't fall right over the barbed wire right now that's the dangerous part we're in the clear and this is how alex gets down this is how i won lindsay over look at that little parrot butt it almost looks like there are a bunch of abandoned huts and things along this beach seems like some people could still live here i don't know yeah this one may so we got this drink from a market before we got to the beach it's this one if you're brazilian you might know it i've never seen it before usadia i don't know what that means but it says it's morengo so that's strawberry from sabor morengo vodka so strawberry vodka 13 alcohol 13.5 have you read that before it was only six rails so a little bit over one dollar this is very cheap for alcohol all right let's try this cheers brazil once again you are strong very sweet very potent tastes like it's about half vodka half strawberry juice if you want to get a buzz going this is a good way to do it though i can't believe this beach the palm trees are just lining the whole thing it's the palm tree farm back there i think maybe we're gonna show you and the way we do best let's go it's at the end of the season little restaurants along here you can't have a restaurant much closer than this to the ocean here it is guido's restaurant so we are at the famous widows which is famous for their seafood people really know it as being a great place for seafood their lobster in particular i ordered a coconut water to start and he brought me two for one because they're so cute and little they don't skimp they could have just brought one of these and just said it's small but they decided to bring two for the price of one so for food no de siri is uh with crab okay because the regional dish here it's usually cooked with like coconut milk seafood it's a stew very common it's stewed with the dende oil which is palm oil so yeah it's famous around the area so we're gonna have some of that some french fries and some coconut waters and enjoy the view look how close we are to the water so we've been hearing about a little tip from you guys after we drink the coconut you can get it chopped open and you can eat the coconut from it and we haven't been able to do it yet but we're gonna do it now so once we're done with these we're gonna ask them to crack it open for us and then i guess you kind of eat it with a spoon look at that bubbling there simmering he said it's made of flour and cream but you eat it with the mulch and the rice and he said this is very spicy so this is the crab mulcaker this was 16 anytime you get seafood it's going to be a little bit more expensive but it's worth it it's fresh one of the best things i've ever eaten we tried okay the other day but this is way better it's amazing because it's a ton of food so it seems like a lot of these regional dishes from bahia the mokika the baywater a lot of times they give them to you in a large portion for at least two people i think that's what they did here again that actually has a really good flavor i'm not a huge seafood fan but if i were to eat a seafood dish it would probably be this one from this place it's awesome yeah it's so good volcano kind of reminds me of like a coconut yellow curry or something it is different it has a different flavor but if i had to pick something that's the most similar to it would be that finally we did it we asked them if they could cut open our coconut so that we could have the food in there and not just the water so they just have the coconut kinda there it is so you have uh about a couple centimeters worth of coconut on there we've been missing out on this after all these coconuts we've eaten or drank we've never had the actual flesh inside the coconut that's free food right there healthy food someone brought us some spoons let's see how it is you must have to scrape it out it's kind of hard i really like that it's crunchy not a ton of flavor but it's good we'll do this again it's a lot of work to get the coconut out of there though it's harder than you think so so that was a cool ride it did cost us about four dollars which is kind of a lot because it only took five minutes we figured it was worth it to try it once and it saved us some time walking back to the village time to catch sunset and we will see you guys tomorrow for our next adventure in boy peppa see you then you
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