The Beaches of Araial D'ajuda

Ahhhh...The Beaches of Brazil!

So the laziness of sitting on the great beaches of Brazil has begun.  After an amazing 12 hour bus ride from Salvador to the beach resort town of Araial D'ajuda, Bahia. Yes I truly do mean it was great I am not being sarcastic, full reclining chairs (like in Business Class on International Flights), great AC, a movie (in Porteguese though).  The town of Araial D'ajuda is this little coastal town in the same State as Salvador (Bahia) but significantly more south.  It seems to us that tourism is kind of a new thing here, that it has always been a coastal getaway but it seems in recent years it has become the new hotspots for both Brazilians from other parts of the country and also Argentinians to come and relax on the beach.  So basically what started as one day here has now turned in to three and a half days here.  Just waking up and spending the better part of the day on the beach enjoying fruit shakes, coconut milk straight from the coconut, grilled cheese on a stick sold from beach vendors, etc.

Emily reading in a hammick in our first posada

One of the many pictures of the beach we have (it was hard to choose which one to upload)

How the town operates has been kind of strange to us.  The first day we got in and checked in to our posada (guesthouse) we wanted to go in to town and get a quick bite to eat before heading to the beach.  But literally everything on the main street is closed during the day.  Almost nothing was open, the entire town both tourists and locals spend all day at the beach in the summer.  Then by 5pm the shops on the main street start opening and by the time everyone showers from their long stay at the beach they can go downtown and shop and eat dinner at a variety of places from nice meat resturants to cheapo burger joints.  And the opposite was true at night, as Emily and I wanted a drink on the beach no beach bars were open after like 7pm.   It's just kind of a weird dynamic but definatly is nice.

The small church in the middle of town

Tomorrow afternoon we are heading to Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, to use as a launching point for several other smaller towns in the same region.  We have heard the area is up in the mountains and cooler then the 90F we have been having for some great beach weather the last few days.  We also decided to save a little money and try a little less nice of a bus (we had two options either a bus similar to our previous bus ride or a bus which I have been told is more like riding in Economy class on a plane instead of First Class).

-Brett

P.S. Oh and by the way the long awaited menus in both Porteguese and Hebrew, actually because we were able to read the Hebrew we knew they had Whole Wheat Bread as an option for Emily's sandwich (they also have one sandwich title 'Tel Aviv.'