This semi-wild beach, some 170km from Natal, is located on the Costa Branca (north coast). Galinhos is a town of 2,000 on a small peninsula where the only access is by boat so we’ll leave the bus parked at the quay to take a short boat tour to the island.

Mangroves, sand dunes, salt flats and oil fields enchant the few tourists who discover this small fishing village where the only taxis you’ll find are carriages drawn by horse and the only cars zooming by are 4x4’s. This is a day of pure relaxation, where everything happens in slow motion, here on your very own isolated corner of the Rio Grande do Norte Coast.