Natal Travel Guide

(Last update: Dec 13, 2011 )

Many and varied beaches, warm sea, white sand, sunshine all year round, beach bars are always full of people smiling and funny, glasses brimming with cold beer or tropical fruit juices, music, dance, joy, fun. Natal, the capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, is everything you want when you think about perfect vacation. In Sun City life runs like a perpetual summer in which people dance day and not sleep at night.

Among shake and shake, the region offers to the north and south of Natal, incredible string of beaches, lagoons, mountains and dunes, which come as summer oasis in which to recover dead batteries in the city moved beaches.

To enjoy the natural beauty and the climate always festive of Natal, nothing better than starting the holiday spending at least one Sunday in Praia da Rendinha , gateway to the beaches of the North Coast, to which can be reached by raft from the district of the Rocks.

Among its calm waters and white sand, the hours go by with dreamlike serenity among contagious rhythms of northeastern sounding loud in the bars and night clubs that sit on the sand, next to each other, to care for fregueses (clients) as they deserve. This beach is frequented by locals, so the attention is homemade and nothing stereotyped as those providing by places designed for tourists. For this reason, it is unthinkable to expect reading a book, take a nap or listen to the whisper of the sea. In this remote beach the natives, who treat you like a distant cousin who comes to visit from another world, spread you their boisterous joy and teach you to move your body like you never thought to do in your life.

To become a Northeastern, it is recommended to lunch between dance party and dance party in Rendinha Public Market, where you can taste the delicious traditional dish of the region, "ginga with tapioca" fish fried in palm oil (dendé) together with tapioca (pancake made from cassava starch). A "caipirinha gelada" and an "Allspice" (those that do mourn), irrefutably complete the conversion process.

Those looking for oustanding services to tourists should avoid Rendinha and fall directly on the famous and beautiful beach of Natal, Ponta Negra, which in paradisiacal landscape crowned by the magnificent Morro do Careca dune-covered with lush vegetation, is added a first -Worldist variety of hotels, restaurants, bars, travel agencies, malls and everything you need to pamper visitors. The beach shows also a wide pedestrian way along the coast, where can make a great walks and buy souvenirs. That beach, four kilometers long, has spectacular reefs that protect bathers from the strong currents of its waters. In turn, its impressive dunes define urban areas with the wilds of the place.

The surprise of the dromedary

But the icing on the cake in Punta Negra is undoubtedly the camel ride which starts from the highest peaks of the dunes and is one of the most fantastic attractions.

Excitement and adventure in Genupabu

For those looking for quiet beach, nothing like starting at the North Coast, beginning the tour at Santa Rita beach, small and without much structure to get the star of the region, Genupabu, distant 25 km from Natal. Its imposing dunes bordering a beautiful freshwater lagoon, creating an ideal setting for practicing esquibunda, a sort of ski on sand that ends with a dip in the lagoon.

Among the many proposals offered by the region, one of the extreme sports can be practiced in Genupabu are buggy rides, which can be chosen "with emotion", up and down the huge dunes, or "without emotion" along the beaches and making stops at the best places to dive and capture incredible images.

In addition to concentrating all the natural charms of the beaches of northern Brazil Genupabu resort is an excellent host who has a huge variety of lodges, hotels, tours and top quality restaurants.

Other nice and fun rides for the North Coast include a cross by raft across the Rio Ceará-Mirim, a quiet and romantic stay in the fishing village Grançandu, where it is also customary practice Jet-sky, the glamorous Pitangui, with its fairly urbanized center and its beautiful lagoon in which air vertical leap is practiced, the Cape San Roque, Brazil's closest geographical point of Africa, and Caraúbas, where you can enjoy a delicious bath in the natural pools formed by coral .

A romantic weekend in Punaú

Few things should be as romantic as a weekend in the quaint and comfortable cabins offering Punaú Beach, located on the confluence of the dark river Punaú the Atlantic Ocean. The dream scenario, framed by towering white dunes are one of the most beautiful North Coast of Natal and is one of the favorite places for those seeking serenity, seclusion and tranquility to crown your deserved vacation.

Other must at northern Natal

The largest Latin American Lighthouse: Located on the praia de Toros, the Farol do Calcanhar, seventy feet high, is Latin America's largest and second largest in the world. It can be visited daily in the morning.

Cajueiro Beach: In a quiet and unfrequented, where go to spawn huge endangered sea turtles.

The south also exists

North has not only natural wonders worth mentioning. The Natal South Coast is also endowed with spectacular places like the Laguna de Carcará that surprises visitors with a beautiful cascade of eight feet, and two lovely beaches North Pirangi and South Pirangi, separated by the river of the same name, and where you can enjoy boating and taking baths in incredible placid pools.

But if you want to get a true paradise in this charming provincial capital, the must-see destination is the town of South Tubau, where the landscape amazes visitors with a sanctuary for dolphins and paradisiacal beach inlaid between the lagoon Guaraira and the Atlantic Ocean.

Pipa: The queen of Southern nights

If your vacation arrived to Southern Natal, certainly the glamorous Pipa beach will make you succumb to its charms owls thanks to its "under" style their eternal nights, her unforgettable parties and their intense fleeting loves, walking with bold sensuality along the main street, not in vain called Broadway. Pipa is the beach that attracts more foreign tourists so its aesthetic, its cravings, its urban style and confusion include the most remote cultures on the planet. In Pipa you can eat Greek food like in Athens, make whiskey like in Scotland, eat pasta like in Italy or dance a samba in Rio de Janeiro. The voluptuous flirting night, often lead to the mostly young players in this sort of endless crazy life, to Playa del Amor, perhaps the most visited beach in the world at night, in its darkness, whose intimate complicity have sealed countless forbidden and secret loves.

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