Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

I had to break our Brazil trip into parts, since we did a few different tours and visited a few different places. Looking back at the pictures it sure makes me miss Brazil already...

Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco
It was about an hour away from the hotel we were staying at and when I told a few people that we were going to Pernambuco they suggested that we visited this place and even though it was cloudy and we got a little bit of rain it was so worth it. Tyler did so good on the whole trip which made it even more enjoyable..

We stayed at this restaurant at first, beach front very cute place with some good food.
Peixe na Telha means fish on the tile


We kept seeing people eat this "cheese on stick" and we had to try. Coalha is the type of cheese, the lady had a big block of it and dipped it in oregano and put it on the grill for a few minutes and OMG It was delicious. We got a few more after that, it was so good and Tyler loved it..

 

 

One of the nicest thing about going to beach in Brazil is that you can just pay to stay under the umbrella and all the vendors walk by and you can get drinks, coconut waters, food.. whatever you want they bring it to you!

 

 Porto de Galinhas means Port of chicken. During the slavery time the ships would claim to have chickens inside their ships/boats but they were smuggling slaves in. So they kept the name Port of chickens..

 

We stayed at this little village, it was nice and calm with shops and restaurants...

 On this part of the village they had a pretty nice restaurant with live music, it was so relaxing we enjoyed our food and Tyler took a little nap...

 

 
The water was super nice, no waves nice and calm...

 After Tyler woke up from his power nap he just kept running and running all over the beach, he made a few friends...

This was the last thing we did before heading to my hometown Campo Grande..
If I ever go back to this part of Brazil I will definitely stay in Porto de Galinhas for more than just one day. It was well worth the drive..

Olinda, Pernambuco Brasil

So while in the northeast of Brazil we did a few tours...
First one we did was the City Tour and Olinda..

Olinda is a very historic part of Recife its known for being the Old Recife.. Carnival is really big in the northeast specially in Olinda..

First stop downtown Olinda.. These historical churches were so colorful and so pretty!! Some of them were built in the 1500..

 

 

 

 

 

After we saw the main area downtown we headed over to the colorful streets, according to our guide they didn't used to have numbers on the houses so the only way to distinguish them from one another was by color. So each building was a different color and they kept it that way.

 

 

 

 

 

Next stop was to visit  the Giant dolls of Olinda.. Very famous during the carnival time. We were able to play with the outfits and see from up close the giant dolls that people carry during carnival in Olinda. This tradition started in Europe in 1900 and was brought to Brazil, the caricatures are mainly famous soccer players like Pele and some others  famous people like Michael Jackson, Frida (the Mexican painter..)

 

 

 

 

 

They were taller than Johnny!

 

Frevo umbrellas ( a dance popular in the Northeast)

 Next stop was at the Cultural Center that used to be a prison and its now a cultural center. Pretty interesting...
They sold all kinds of crafts and little sculptures and all other kinds of things ..

They kept the 106 jail cell intact and that was a little creppy to see how the prisoners were kept

After the cultural center we headed to the highest point in Recife were we could look over the city and the ocean.. It was breezy and cool... In the same area there were more shops and some food.. Johnny really liked the tapioca they made there... It was similar to an omelet but made with tapioca flour and for the filling you can choose from sweet or salty options.. coconut and cheese is the most popular there.

 

It was a long day and Tyler was so tired poor thing...but after this we had one more stop lol

 

 

Saint Bento Monastery

Masses are still being held on Sundays there which I thought was pretty cool..

 

 

This tour was well worth the price.!!