Jericoacoara - The hippie experience - Part II

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As I've mentioned in an earlier post, the highlight of the day are the sunrise and the sunset, specially the sunset, everyone comes out to enjoy the experience and right after the sun is gone, they light a fire on the beach and you find yourself in a party... every day, but I'm getting ahead of myself here... let's start with the sunset. :-)

Getting to the right spot to enjoy the sunset requires some effort since you have to climb a good sand dune in order to get a good view.

You can see the little people down below...

And this is not a photographic trick... it was that steep!

You may think it gets kinda boring waiting there for the sun to disappear... but we had plenty of entertainment while we waited, from people doing sand-surfing




A guy doing some amazing acrobatics



and even we decided to have our little fun too. };-)

While we were travelling with Sandro, he gave us plenty of experience on how to push people down the dune so we thought it would be only fair to help out Javier to enrich his life with such an experience... after some careful planning we got everything in place, Susana distracting him, me ready to pull him down and María recording the event, Javier's sand babtism



In the end I ended up eating far more sand that I had anticipated and doing some acrobatics myself... but nothing like the taste of sand in your mouth when you are on holidays. :-)

On the positive side, I reckon that day I managed to provide my body with all the minerals I may require in my entire lifetime and the next one too.

There were quite a lot of people waiting to see the sunset

Finally, the sun decided to leave us for the day so everyone took their cameras and started shooting pictures.

As we were leaving the dune and making our way back to the village we heard some music so we decided to investigate, there was a small crowd making a circle and as we approached them we realised we were witnessing a Capoeira demonstration. The videos are quite dark but the sun was gone so I'm afraid that's as good as it gets.







But that wasn't all!
Out of nowhere, the main entrance to the village was filled with trolleys selling caipirinhas and caipiroskas of any flavour you can think of, strawberry, melon, mango, anana, ...

They also had a fire and everyone was around chatting and drinking caipiroskas so we obviously decided to join them and embrace the real Jeri experience

Tough life!

Apart from laying down by the beach and enjoying the food and the sunsets we also did some minor trekking to check out the surrounding areas.

Jericoacoara it's a weird place full of weird people indeed but I would totally recommend the visit.

After this, Rio de Janeiro was next. :-)

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