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TATAJUBA'S LAGOON
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One day we decide to rent a dune-buggy-car and Didi is our driver. Didi is a nice, funny, (20-something-year-old) guy, and his job is taking tourists around to sightseeing the many beautiful places in Jericoacoara's area.
Today we go to the "Duna do funil" (the "Rope dune"): this name is due to the long rope that should help people climb up the steep dune.
Once on the top the view is breath-taking: it's a sort of huge sandy crater in the middle of which there is a small rainy water lake. The tiny shack in the lake is what they proudly call...
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..."the smallest bar in the world"!. Actually, the structure can't even be considered as a "hut: there's a palm-tree roof and an ice-box which gives you the chance of a luxury treat consisting of either a beer or a coconut water. That's it. Nothing else.
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After such a "cool" experience ("cool" is the right word for it, since, if you want to have one of these drinks, you have to "swim your way" to the bar!), Didi takes us to another peculiar place: Tatajuba Lagoon, where we have lunch in a feet-in-the-water-restaurant! Customers' tables are in the shallow water of a lagoon. You ask the waiter for the food-list and he gets you... a tray full of fish: you choose the one you like by pointing at it with your finger and they make it for your straight away... and, believe it or not, there is the toilette too!
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The area surrounding Tatajuba's Lagoon is a really magic place: sand dunes, forest and rain water lakes are scattered in a very peculiar way. There is almost no one around us: just a couple of families of Brazilian tourists, but they keep eating beef meat and drinking beer by the lagoon restaurant, and dare not leave the shadowed seats by the water. Vincenzo and I, though, decide to take a walk despite the hot temperature.
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This is how we enjoy the thrilling experience of facing an "infinity" dimension: time itself seems to slow down, and we get such a sensation when we spot two guys walking their way through the dunes under a ferocious sun with an astonishing slow pace... Where are they from and where are going to? There are no villages in an area of about 20 miles around us, still they keep going just like they where the only inhabitants of the universe: I've spent minutes staring at them... They pass by, rise their thumbs up with the usual «Todo ben!» ("Everything's all right!") and smile, just like those who seem to know how to live the life in the best way... I guess we'd have much to learn from them!
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Didi has proved to be a perfect driver and a skill tour-guide, so we decide to "hire" him again two days after the trip to Tatajuba. This time we go eastbound to the Blue lagoon. The landscape is the same: water streams, sand dunes and palm-trees. Then we see a very unusual plant: people call it "the sloth-tree", and actually, in a way, it reminds us of that nice pet (just the sloth!) we are looking forward to meeting...
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Didi's car need fuel, so we stop at a gas-station... Well, in the very middle of the wood, far from any sort of civilization, I would not expect a regular gas-station with lots of facilities; still we are surprised to know that it is a simple brick house. The attendant is a Brazilian girl, and the fuel is in some... mineral-water plastic bottles! No wonder, then, if our car refuses to start up! How thrilling! We are stuck in the middle of nowhere at almost lunchtime!
Luckly the engine decides to... live again, and there we go! Didi takes us to a tiny restaurant where we have the chance to eat huge river-crabs... Delicious!
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