Holiday Inn Fortaleza - Brazil

The city of Fortaleza is located in the state of Ceara in northeastern Brazil. Fortaleza has an area of 336 km2 and is bounded to the north by the Atlantic Ocean to the south by the municipalities of Pacatuba, Eusebius, and Maracanaú Itaitinga, east by the Municipality of Aquiraz and the Atlantic Ocean and finally to the west by the Municipality of Caucaia.

The waterside city of Fortaleza is surrounded by a sea of warm waters and beaches urbanized, such as the beach of Iracema accompanying the Avenida Beira-Mar, one of the busiest in the city is situated opposite the hotel and welcome the typical "Feirinha" where visitors can buy everything from the famous bottles of colored sand from White Hill to the magnificent statues wooden incredibly low prices or sweets such as "brown sugar" or "thighs of a woman" (candy made primarily based on condensed milk).

In those same beaches can observe the small, rustic boats nicknamed "rafts" that are used by fishermen from Ceará. On some beaches, for example, Canoa Quebrada, tourists can even get to walk the raft can therefore enjoy these paradises of various viewpoints.

Iracema beach houses most of the bars, restaurants and hotels in the city. It is there also that lies to the Ingleses Bridge, the Old Harbour which is now used to watch the sunset, sun and dolphins.

For those who do not want to stray too far from the city, Praia do Futuro is the favorite of the bathers, concentrating in itself a large number of typical restaurants, whose construction is used in the aforementioned carnauba straw and are nicknamed "beach huts ". Each Thursday evening at this beach are very animated. In fact, in Chico Crab there concerts live music, forró and very obviously very fresh seafood, especially crab! The existence of strong winds in Praia do Futuro makes it conducive to water sports such as surfing and windsurfing. Fortaleza hosts world competitions even.

If you want to enjoy more quiet beaches and less cosmopolitan will have to travel a little further, but do not be alarmed cearenses roads are in very good condition and the buses have air conditioning which makes the trip very enjoyable and at the same time have the opportunity to know the Brazilian hinterland.

The extensive beach of Cumbuco near Fortaleza well, has a dense coconut trees, dunes very expressive of a great white that rise up to 41 meters, where you can stroll Buggy "with much emotion" or visit the Banana Lagoon widely used for water sports, including jet-ski. Here you can find some typical restaurants where seafood predominate, you can also ride horses, buy souvenirs or just enjoy a relaxing massage to the seaside. In Cumbuco you can also practice "skibunda" (a very fun and popular activity) that is to slide down the dunes sitting on wooden planks going to fall in the warm waters of a small pond.

You can also visit the beach Caponga, located 69 km from Fortaleza. The beauty of coconut trees, lakes and dunes make up the perfect setting for leisure. In this beach resorts that are located some place available to the visitor various activities such as, for example, aquatic exercises outdoors.

Morro Branco Beach, just 80 km from Fortaleza, you can visit the famous cliffs of colored sands are mined where they are placed in vials and modeled using small spatulas leading to magnificent landscapes that seem authentic paintings.

A little later, 7 km from Morro Branco is the Praia das Fontes. This beach became famous for being the scene of the recording of a well-known novel that was very successful, both in Brazil and in Portugal, call Tropicaliente. In fact their exotic caves, cliffs and sculptural sources of fresh water flowing into the beaches are a paradise setting quite impressive and attractive.

The 130 km of Fortaleza Beach Pond is a beach of unique beauty due to its shape in a half-moon, to which there are many palm trees and their thick vegetation. Here you can visit the area surrounding the beach riding in a so-called "Pau-de-parrot": a kind of van where people sit on wooden seats, which formerly constituted the transport of Ceará where they wanted to make longer trips. This visit is guided and takes us to the real Pond, a pond a beauty thunderous where we noticed a striking fact: the water is peculiarly hot even for those who already know the usual temperature of water in Brazil. The return to the beach is made first by boat (to cross the pond) and then Buggy lead us through the dunes to the site of departure.

Canoa Quebrada, an exotic beach paradise of scenarios located 156 km from Fortaleza, offers immense attraction to visitors: rides raft off the beach, rent a quad bike, horse riding or buggy, massages by the sea ... Canoa Quebrada is a village that was settled, many decades ago, for a community, "Rastafarian" where can today if you want, get a tattoo of "henna" or "Teresa" (small braids) in the hair. Can still practice "skibunda" or "aerobunda": a kind of "rappel" in which the practitioner falls once again into a small pond of water hot enough.

Finally, and beyond the endless number of beaches which can address the area of Fortaleza, Jericoacoara visit a tropical beach considered one of the ten most beautiful in the world by U.S. newspaper The New York Times. "Jeri," as he is affectionately called by its inhabitants, is a beach with difficult access, which guarantees the isolation and protection of natural beauties. Jericoacoara was a colony of fishermen. However, nowadays it is well served by hotels and inns to welcoming visitors. In fact, tourism is the lifeblood of this town whose slogan preserving their landscapes: ridges moving dunes, coconut groves, mangroves, ponds ...

A 22 km from Fortaleza, you can visit also the water park Beach Park which has 500 outdoor tables where you can stroll or ultra-lightweight buggy, horse or quad bike and of course you can have fun in the huge existing water slides and which is part of the largest water slide in Latin America, the Insane, with a height equivalent to 14 floors. Children were not forgotten and there are specific entertainment for them: animal-shaped slides, a pirate ship, a sea serpent ...

Programming nightlife of Fortaleza is one of the best of Ceara. Indeed the Avenida Beira-Mar and the beach of Iracema concentrate a large number of bars, restaurants and houses of entertainment guaranteed to drive every day, everything is animated to receive those who want to have fun. The capital of Ceará won the fame of having the Monday liveliest of Brazil, mainly due to the Pirate Bar where there is always entertainment in charge of music bands in Brazil. Throughout the street and adjacent streets Tabajaras there is the so-called "Corridor of the Bars" where, for example, Mucuripe Club which features a complex of nightclubs and Commodore Submarine music for all tastes and generations.

Finally, the reasons to visit Fortaleza are immense and generous beyond all that this short article can contain. Just going there and enjoying everything the city has to give us we agree with the motto of Ceara, "Who comes once to Ceara will certainly want to come back."

Holiday Inn Fortaleza is located in Fortaleza, Brazil. Hotel Features complimentary parking,  complimentary breakfast buffet and outdoor pool. Also have's cable/satellite television with pay movies, coffee/tea makers and refrigerators,  air conditioning. Number of rooms: 273; Number of suites: 21; Parking (free); Porter/bellhop; Restaurant(s) in hotel; Room service (limited hours); Safe-deposit box - front desk; Sauna; Shoe shine; Suitable for children; Swimming pool - outdoor.
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