PARADISE IN BRAZIL! MARAGOGI ALAGOAS
good morning everyone it's day two here in maragogi in the brazilian state of alagoas and we're just about to do the main attraction here which is a boat tour to some coral reefs right near the shore, but we haven't booked it in advance. we went to the beach yesterday to make a reservation and all the boat guys had already left but a lady, a local that lives on the beach said that all you need to do is arrive on the beach early and there'll be loads of people that will be willing to take you there, so that's what we're going to do now. don't know how much it's going to cost but i'll let you know soon. so if you didn't watch yesterday's video this is the beach right in front of the place we're staying in the area of barra grande, really nice beach so that was really easy within a minute the guy already approached us and he gave us a good price i think. carol saw her online that it would be 100 right? yeah but that would be with a snorkeling gear included oh okay i guess it's just the same price. yeah if we get the snorkel gear because he just said it's around twenty to twenty five here. so eighty plus twenty it's gonna be
the same price. yeah i think we'll only get one set of snorkels though, i still don't know if i'm going to do it because i've got the cut on my forehead so i shouldn't really go underwater but we'll see. and now we're just waiting here, i think they have to wait for enough people to fill their speedboat and then we'll go. so Carol just got a coconut like yesterday. yeah nice and cold. same price paying five reaiis again. yeah this is a big one, bigger than yesterday
so it only took about 10 minutes to get out here to the coral reef, as i mentioned it's super popular here so there's boats everywhere but it's a huge area so even though it's busy there's loads of empty areas around everywhere. i think we got about an hour here so a good amount of time. water is beautiful isn't it? beautiful color so carol got some snorkel here as well it was 20 right? yeah 20 reaiis, 20 reaiis that's pretty good yeah so it's really cool it's just a huge area where you can stand up, i think it's shallow the whole part isn't it? yeah, you can see there's people all the way over there and the boat guy said there's six different pools so there's more pools down that way as well so the main reef is this here i don't know if you can see on the gopro it's like a brown looking rock right now, apparently it's 130 kilometers long. so me and Carol decided to do something that we've never done so far, a photo shoot. how much is it? 100, yeah it's 50 per person. yeah we're gonna do it with this guy here after he does it with that couple so we're now at the second and final stop, we're not going to film much here because our last video we filmed here this is caminho de moises. so if you watched the last video you remember that
during low tide we walked all the way from the coast and there's usually a pathway here . right now low tide was like two hours ago so it's all underwater, but it's still a pretty cool shallow pool. yeah i guess if we knew that this was included in the boat tour we wouldn't have gone walking but it was nice walk either way because we could come at the right time, like at the lowest tide it looks better than this now that the tide is going up so we did ask the guy if we could do the tour without this part but there is no such tour. all the tours do the the same thing. it's because the majority of the people here aren't staying around here, they're in other cities, other areas so they just come here for the day and then go to the two locations that we did on this tour. check this guy out, we got the floating ice cream salesman
got all his ice cream in that floating box so we're in our rental car now, we're going to head down the coast to a beach called praia patacho looks pretty nice. just to check out some more beaches and different areas while we're here in maragogi, and we gotta drive 40 minutes now to a ferry terminal i think we have to get on a ferry or something, that's something different so we'll see how that goes so we're here at the ferry terminal now, gotta wait in this big queue i think the ferry already came once but then it filled up with all the cars and now we have to wait for another one, hopefully we'll get on the second one. really beautiful drive though, it just looks more and more like the caribbean around here, pretty much identical. so
as we were driving up the coast there's just so many deserted beaches with pretty much the same colored water as maragogi. so your just spoilt for beaches around here and just billions of palm trees everywhere. alright after about 40 minutes i think it's our turn finally, yay.
now i just need to drive into the ferry yeah yeah look how small the ferry is, i thought it was going to be around 20 cars or something but i think it's six. this way go run over the guy all right here we go so it was 16 reaiis to cross and i think it goes until midnight. pretty nice river check this out, huge river so if your coming to this beach patacho just keep in mind that it's off-road during the last five minutes. looks amazing though so far check it out
this is like identical to the philippines, yeah so many coconut trees it looks like philippines. and these off-road dirt roads it looked like we were coming to a beach in the middle of nowhere, deserted beach but then right at the end there's this beach club here called sonhos do patacho, so you have a restaurant area over there and the restaurant area where we are at right now right on the beach. you can also eat on the beach but the tide's coming in so the guy said it was better to come to this part yeah to not drown. yeah and it was 10 reaiis per person and that includes the parking and also the pool. there's a pool over there and you can just swim there if you want but we're not gonna do that we're just gonna eat here and then enjoy the beach. yeah i think it also
includes the sun beds and the umbrellas. yeah and there wi-fi as well. yeah just for 10 reaiis. that's cheap even for brazil i think? yeah yeah it's a good price, yeah great price. cheers today we went for a shared dish for two so all this was a hundred and ten reaiis and we got the grilled fish, so we got four nice pieces there got the mashed potato, some veggies not sure what that is, it looks like yeah some sort of salad tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce and the rice as usual and then this coconut was 5 reaiis and this was also 5 reaiis. it's pretty much the same price everywhere around here so far
and if we eat too much and get sleepy we have the hammocks here. brazilian music. samba! samba or pagode? I think its pagode. pagode is a type of samba though right? or is it different? they have the same roots yeah. yeah it's similar. Yeah you will hear a lot of pagode in brazil we've come a little bit further down the beach from the beach club back there. i've never really
been into music on the beach, i don't know why, even my own music i usually don't listen to it that much unless i'm walking or something. it's hard to say if this beach is as nice as the ones around maragogi because the sun's going down and that always changes the color of the water a lot so it doesn't look like that super turquoise color but i think if the sun was vertically up it would look like that also. and the guy was right, the beach is disappearing so they're taking all the the chairs away now and the sunbeds, even here there's barely any beach anymore. the guy
that we did the boat tour with he actually said the beach where we're staying barra grande, he said when he was little it was a huge wide beach. they had little beach shacks and even houses on the beach but now with the rising sea levels it's removed around two-thirds of the beach he said said, and now there's no longer any beach shacks or anything and you probably saw in the videos they've even had to build this concrete wall to block the ocean from coming in. so yeah i guess the beach would have been way bigger back in the day so you can probably see those boats out there, those little colorful ones. so you can also do boat trips from this place as well, pretty much the same boat trip that we did today minus the the moses pathway. because here has the coral reef, as i mentioned earlier it's
130 kilometers long so a lot of the towns and cities on this coast have the boat trips to the same coral reef. but over here it's cheaper it's 65 reaiis but i think you only go to the reefs the boat tour we did had two different things right, so that's why. all this coast is pretty much like this i think, all the way up to Recife which is another city way way way up the coast completely other state, so yeah it's just non-stop beaches. deserted beaches so next to the parking lot we have these little houses here, traditional houses made out of mud so in the villages nearby we actually saw houses still made like this. yeah not like entirely but some parts, some of the walls are a bit like this but just the minority of the houses it's like a more simple way of living and simple houses made like this. well it's for free
i think as well right? you just grab this over here, i don't know probably. i don't know yeah i think it's supposed to be pretty cool as well, it's super hot around here so we're coming to a spot for the sunset but we're too late, the ferry back took a bit too long and it's this ruin of an old church i think it's called igreja de sao bento. so it is in complete ruins. i think the sun went down here, but yeah i can't really see anything right now and that's the ocean over there. i think you can go inside though so yeah we'll check it out. so there's some information about the church, wow it's from 1643 didn't realize it would be that old, from a community called sao bento so that's why it has that name. so it's pretty cool, we got here at night but the they have lights here
on the floor, i thought we were coming to some deserted place but it is a tourist attraction got lights up there as well what's this the graveyard? yeah like a cemetery yeah. yeah tiny little cemetery
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