Praia da Pipa

Arriving in Praia da Pipa on our second honey moon, we did our best to relax and do nothing...........the first afternoon! But T-I has too much energy, so the next morning we were not relaxing any more - but found ourselves on a very unrelaxing buggy-trip!!!

Luckily for T-I, we had a professional driver - if he had been driving like that, he would have been dead after 5 minutes I promise. I screamed and screamed. The buggy was not jumping - oh no - it was flying!!! Anders, you would have loved it!!
You have no idea how fast this is..................

This is the biggest tourist attraction in Natal. "Everyone" is doing a buggy trip.

Beleive it or not - a CAR FERRY !!!!!!!

OK - guess what this is........

A home made lift of course :-)

In Norwegian; en Reodor Felgen heis!!

to bring these adrenaline kids up again from the river!

Have to use your fantasy to earn money you know!

What else ?

Hmmm - why not let the tourists pay 7 RS to sledge down to the river in an incredible speed??

Guess if Mr. Thor thought it was a GREAT idea??

Day 2:

No sun. A little rain. Let's hike. Let's walk and climb along the coast as long as we can........

Pipa has very high cliffs and lots of rocks, so it's quite hard to get down to the beaches. We finally found a path through a forest and I was hysterical in case of any snakes.........(of course we didn't use the normal tourist path - because we are not normal tourists!!)

Very beautiful and deserted!

It's aroud 30 degrees all the time, night and day, and also in the water!

Here's a family that found it more comfortable IN the water than on the beach!

Anne Katrine; tror du Byrkjedal vet hva slags bergart dette er?????

OK, here the trouble started. We had walked for hours. I wanted to get up from the beach and walk on the road back again. I was too tired to walk in the sand and on the rocks back as well (it was about 8 km) We were starving and wanted lunch!

Can you see anywhere to climb up the hill??

Neither could we..........

If you didn't know - my husband is stubborn - so suddenly he decided; "here is a perfect place to climb" - he started and the earth kept falling apart under him. All the rocks he tried to hold fell out. But it was perfect. Come on Cathrine..........

YES, I did get scratches and YES I did bleed and YES I did get a beer for lunch (and that's not normal in our family!!)

This is not where we climbed actually - we're not that crazy!

Local carnaval in Pipa

Breakfast in our beautiful pousada!

Our daily afternoon caipirinha!

White wine on the balcony!

The next 2 days we imagined that we participated in the "World Championship in doing nothing". We didn't win - that's for sure - but we tried really really hard !!!