Arraial do Cabo - day 3

Today we planned to visit one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil - Praia do Pontal do Atalaia. There are two ways to reach the beach by taxi or by boat taxi. We decided to order Uber after we bought drinks and food for a day. First two Uber rides got canceled and second drove us for two minutes and then we had to get out. Apparently only official taxis are allowed to enter the road and there is a fix price 15 reais per person for ride. The advantage of taking the Uber is that the money gets deducted automatically from your bank account, official taxi is paid by cash. We run out of cash again and no ATM for foreigners is available here. 😅 so what can we do now?! We were negotiating with taxi drivers and with my bad Portuguese we could at the end pay in the shop nearby and she gave the taxi driver cash. Extra charge for the service 5 reais. The bumping ride with 8 other passengers in the taxi was okay and we were shocked by amount of people going to this famous beach. The beach was really nice don’t get me wrong but the amount of people, boat tours stopping for swimming and big waves didn’t make our stay that pleasant … also sun beds and umbrellas for almost 30€ 😅 am I in Saint Tropez or Santorini?! We decided to enjoy our day anyway and spoiled us with Açaí and caipirinha 😍. For the way back we decided to try to the water taxi and then explored the area around the port. It’s time to pack our bags again as tomorrow afternoon our bus goes to Rio 🇧🇷もっと詳しく