We finally arrived in Jeri on the Friday after 3 days of travelling..to be fair we had seen some amazing sights in those 3 days so it wasn´t all bad...and as soon as we set eyes on Jeri we knew it was worth it! The village is set on the beach with 3 main streets (not really streets, more like sandy paths- there is sand EVERYWHERE!) leading up from it. The village is full with lovely little restaurants, cafes and fancy boutiques packed with tiny little Brazilian bikinis and beach wear. We wandered around on the first day and loved it, the atmosphere was so laid back, people saying hi and walking around with no shoes on-it was the most chilled out place we´ve been in a long time. Another reason we loved it was our hostel, it was lovely! There was a pretty little courtyard full with hammocks leading onto a huge sparkling blue swimming pool-and this is where we spent at least 3 hours of every day!
In fact we loved everything about Jeri, the more and more we explored the more and more we loved and found we didn´t ever want to leave this place! We found a DVD rental shop and gave a lot of business to the owner! The restaurants were fab, and of course we found a sushi bar that served excellent sushi- and 20% off on certain days-perfect! Jeri is surrounded by huge sand dunes, and there is one in particular quite close to our hostel called the Por do Sol (sunset) dune and everyone walks up at about 5.15pm everyday to watch the sunset over the sea- such a beautiful sight.
Every evening around 6pm there were impressive sunset performances of Capoeira to watch on the beach, the amazing martial arts dance. Around this time too the cocktail carts would be setting up- providing the most amount of alcohol concoctions ever- my favourite was a maracujaroska- freshly squeezed passion fruit and vodka...lovely!
The beaches were great too although Jeri´s best quality is said to be the wind- apparently the east-west aligned coast brings excellent breezes every day and it was fantastic to sit and watch the kite surfers and windsurfers from the beach.
The beaches were great too although Jeri´s best quality is said to be the wind- apparently the east-west aligned coast brings excellent breezes every day and it was fantastic to sit and watch the kite surfers and windsurfers from the beach.
However, I think our favourite part about our stay in Jeri was the Monday night. Chris and I were sat eating at a little cafe we had spotted during the day and thought looked quite nice. We had just finished our yummy fish stew and were discussing which DVD to rent for the night. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I notice someone running towards our table..it was Rich our friend from Trekforce!! We actually couldn´t believe it, and I still can´t quite believe it as I write this now, but Rich and Jo - our very good friends- were on a 3 week holiday in Jeri! There was a lot of screaming and so many shocked double takes at each other- we couldn´t believe they were in this tiny little place that took us 3 days to get to..in such a huge country as Brazil!! It was simply amazing!! It was so so good to see them! Unfortunately they only had one more night and were returning home to England the next day! But at least we had one night..thank goodness Rich had spotted us!! This was becoming a bit of a habit- the same thing had happened last summer when we were both on long weekends in Cornwall!
We had a crazy night out spent mainly sat by the cocktail carts drinking various mixtures and saying ´I can´t believe you are here´! We tried to make the night last as long as possible and finally retired around 4am- we were walking back to our hostels and suddenly realised that our hostels were next to one another- how had we not seen one another!! Chris and I noted that maybe we had spent too much time watching DVDs in our room and eating sushi..whoops. Anyway, at least we had seen them! We met the next morning too and sat by our pool mainly just saying ´I can´t believe you are here´! We waved them off when our time was up, absolutely gutted that they had to leave and incredibly hungover. We decided to get another DVD to cheer ourselves up!
We had a crazy night out spent mainly sat by the cocktail carts drinking various mixtures and saying ´I can´t believe you are here´! We tried to make the night last as long as possible and finally retired around 4am- we were walking back to our hostels and suddenly realised that our hostels were next to one another- how had we not seen one another!! Chris and I noted that maybe we had spent too much time watching DVDs in our room and eating sushi..whoops. Anyway, at least we had seen them! We met the next morning too and sat by our pool mainly just saying ´I can´t believe you are here´! We waved them off when our time was up, absolutely gutted that they had to leave and incredibly hungover. We decided to get another DVD to cheer ourselves up!
It said in our guidebook that you will probably stay for longer than expected in Jeri. We planned to stay 4 days and ended up staying a week. After chilling out to the max by reading and sunbathing by the pool, watching as many DVD´s as possible and lots of eating and drinking we thought we should do something active and decided to walk to Pedra Furada- an arched rock formation about 3km east of Jeri. The walk was spectacular along the coast walking across dunes and rocks and spotting lots of donkeys along the way! We made it to the rock after an hour and rested for a bit.
The walk back was slightly more hairy than the walk there- the tide had come in and for some reason we had decided to try and make it by going across the rock pools rather than higher up on the dunes-and where the path was! It was quite fun to begin with- clambering in and out of rocks trying to dodge the water, but after a while it turned quite tiring and slightly dangerous as the rocks became very slippery and wet. After an hour or so we decided to find the path again- successfully thank god and just in time to watch the gorgeous sunset over the bay.
The walk back was slightly more hairy than the walk there- the tide had come in and for some reason we had decided to try and make it by going across the rock pools rather than higher up on the dunes-and where the path was! It was quite fun to begin with- clambering in and out of rocks trying to dodge the water, but after a while it turned quite tiring and slightly dangerous as the rocks became very slippery and wet. After an hour or so we decided to find the path again- successfully thank god and just in time to watch the gorgeous sunset over the bay.
We reluctantly bought bus tickets onwards after a week, not because we wanted to- but we have a flight to catch from further down south in a couple of weeks and felt we wouldn´t make it unless we left then..I really think we´d still be in Jeri now otherwise! It was an amazing place with some amazing memories- definitely one of my favourite places in the whole world!
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