Route of Emotions

Pick up at the airport and transfer to the hotel.

Night at the pousada Casa Lavinia (breaksfast included). Standard room.
Included : transfer arrival, reception with english-speaking guide, room & breakfast

Private transport to Barreirinhas, a quiet town sprayed by the waters of the Río Preguiças.

Go and discover the lagunas and dunes of the surrounding area. After an hour in a 4WD on rough sandy tracks, you will reach the desert. There everyone can stroll freely to discovery the landscape hidden behind each dune and enjoy a refreshing bath.

Return to Barreirinhas in the afternoon.

An english speaking guide will accompany you during the day.

Night at the pousada Sossego do Cantinho (breakfast included).
Included : private transport, english speaking guide, room & breakfast

In the morning, board a private motorboat to follow the Río Preguiças until you reach the Atlantic Coast. The river shores appear in their full splendor: mangrove, igarapés (waterways), buritis, açaizeiros (a native palm tree in the rainforests of northern Brazil), coconut trees, tucunzeiros and the never very far colorful fauna: herons, kingfishers and if you are lucky, guarás (a striking red ibis typical of this area).

As you will approach the coastline, the dunes will start to appear. At the Rio’s mouth, you will have a break in the minuscule and picturesque village of Caburé. The river flows along one side of the village while, on the other side of the dune, the ocean spreads over miles of deserted beaches.
Then, continue to Atins, on the other side of the river (30 min).

Night at the hotel Maresia Atins (breaksfast included). Bangalow.
Included : private transport, english speaking guide, room & breakfast

Transfer by 4WD to the desert door, 4 km from town (20 min or 11/2hrs by foot). An isolated restaurant where you can taste the best shrimps of the area, will be your base camp for your half day trip in the desert (lunch not included).

Enjoy the visit of the Lençois with its 100 km of dunes and lagoons. They seem at hand reach although you can only get there after a few minutes walking (and up to a hour depending of the lagoon visited).

Return to Atins after 4 hours spent in the desert.

Your guide will accompany you.

Night at the hotel Maresia Atins (breaksfast included). Bangalow.
Included : private transport, english speaking guide, guide expenses, room & breakfast

In the morning, transfer by private motorboat to Caburé. From there a 4WD will drive you to Tutoia. The track will takes you successively from deserted beaches to virgin dunes, and you will cross a few modest fishing villages appearing to have been through the last 5 centuries without changes: here are one of those places where you can feel the so particular atmosphere of "end of the world"...

After a 2-hours drive, arrive in Tutoia, the entrance to the delta das Américas, where you will board a private motorboat for a good half-day cruise. The delta, including sections of the States of Piaui and of Maranhão, spreads over 2700 square kilometers and includes 85 islands. It offers a natural setting equal in complexity to those encountered on the Nile or the Mekong. The same ecosystem contains mixed contrasting landscapes: rivers, lagoons, gigantic dunes, wetlands, deserted white sand beaches and their diverse type of mangroves. The fauna in all its diversity is not far behind: crocodiles, monkeys, turtles and crabs cohabitate with different bird species, (notably herons and guarás, the striking red ibises typical of this area).

Your guide will accompany you.

Night at the pousada Casa de Santo Antônio (breakfast included).
Included : private transport, english speaking guide, guide expenses, room & breakfast

In the morning, private transfer from Parnaíba to Camocim (120 km). Starting from Camocim, the 4x4 will be your mean of transport.

The departure time from Camocim to Jericoacoara depends on the tides as you will have to get over the Coreau River (flowing to the ocean) in a barge, before progressing on a succession of deserted beaches, each one more sublime than the other, until Tatajuba. You will cross tiny fishing villages, before reaching Tatajuba in the middle of the afternoon.

Around you, 20 miles of white sand dunes and coconut trees will seduce you for a rest. Second crossing on a barge at Guriú beach, a fishermen’s settlement located between Tatajuba and Jericoacoara. You will finally reach Jericoacoara, where you will be welcomed by cows strolling in total freedom in the sandy streets of this quiet village.

Actually, not so quiet: for those who want to party like only Brazilians know how, with the help of large amounts of cachaça and to the sound of the forró, Jericoacoara is a perfect place…


Night at the pousada Vila Kalango (breakfast included).
Bungalow room or palafita.
Included : private transport, room & breakfast

In the morning, departure in a dune buggy for an excursion around Jericoacoara. 2 passengers with their luggage + a Portuguese-speaking driver by vehicle (no English-speaking guide). After a swim in the fresh waters of the lagoa Azul, you will have a lunch break near the lagoa Paraíso. In the afternoon, you will continue on to the "pedra furada" (the pierced stone), and the "pedra do frade" (the monk’s stone). Return to Jericoacoara at the end of the day.

Option: extra(s) day(s) in Jericoacoara with many activities (kite surf, windsurf, trek, horse rides, massages…), check with us.

Night at the pousada Vila Kalango (breakfast included).
Bungalow room or palafita.
Included : local guide, private transport, room & breakfast

You will leave the hotel at 9am, heading East.

To reach Guajiru, you will have to drive through 200 km of breathtaking coastline. 12 beaches follow each other and after Itapipoca, a city lodged between the sertão (arid region) and the coast, you will have time to think about your next step at Guajiru, where the river of the same name flows into the ocean drawing a large 8 on the sand at the bottom of great sand dunes.

Night at the Rede Beach hotel (breakfast included).
Confort room.

Included : english speaking guide, private transport, room & breakfast

You will depart the pousada at 9am.

You will leave Fleixeiras, its palm trees, lagoons, reefs and natural pools, under the bright sun.
You will then cross different beaches: Pericoara, Barra, Carnaubinha, Pedra do Mole, Lagoinha.

Then you will have to cross the Suipé River, between sand dunes and swamps, to reach Pecém and its long isolated beaches. After that, on to Taíba, a small village built around a street with more palm trees than cars, before finally arriving at the lagoons of Parnamirim and Banana.

Included : english speaking guide, private transport