Imagine a beach two miles long, positioned in such a way that it receives the afternoon trade winds, yet doesn’t experience any of the related high surf. As you can see in the video below, my daughter didn’t like the murkiness of the sand here. In fact, hardly anyone comes to this beach for anything […]
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Buzios
Praia dos Ossos - Bones Beach Buzios
This beach is easy to find if you know where to look for it. Near downtown, you can walk to it after having a refreshing lunch or morning cafe. Trees hang down over this Buzios beach and homes front the road that runs in front of it. A perfect place for a sunset picture as […]
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Praia da Azedinha - Azedinha Beach Buzios
You don’t just stumble onto something like this, unless you’re in Buzios. We had no idea what “pretty beach” meant until we actually took the trek down the rock trail to this spectacular shore that faces almost due west. These beaches were known in the ’70′s as hangouts for hippies, and Rio is home to […]
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Praia de Tucuns - Tucuns Beach Buzios
If you’re looking to get totally away from all the action in Buzios, Tucuns Beach is the place to be. But be prepared to really be away from it all. Now, there are a few serious developments in here. Someone woke up to the potential of resorts on this beach. There are a few problems […]
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Praia de Joao Fernandes - Joao Fernandes Beach Buzios
We heard that you just had to visit Joao Fernandes, so on our final day in Buzios (since we made a point to visit every beach) we jumped in the rental car and made our way to the end of the peninsula. Granted, we were there at low season, but as you can see, the […]
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Praia dos Amores - Lovers Beach Buzios
Love is in the air! Good reason to take one of the leisurely cruises around the Buzios peninsula and visit all of the beaches. Start early so you can get in a few beaches and some great Brazilian food. You’ll want to start at the center of town and head in either direction as there […]
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Praia de Joao Fernandinho - Joao Fernandinho Beach Buzios
One of the nicest beaches to take the kids in Buzios is Joao Fernandinho. You can get to it easily from the main roads, and it is near one of the largest concentrations of pousadas and hotels in Buzios. You can read that a few ways - most people read it as meaning it’s going […]
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Praia Brava - Brava Beach Buzios
The name says it all. The beach with the heaviest surf bears the name of “angry” in Portuguese. Brava, like many of the beaches around Buzios, has a history. This can be a good beach to swim and surf depending on the Atlantic. Most of the time you will find this beach in Buzios to […]
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Olho de Boi - Bullseye Beach Buzios
Some of the best vistas off of the Buzios peninsula are on the eastern shore and there are mainly rocky shorelines with mountains sloping into the sea. There is only a couple of beaches and these are hard to get to. We visited Brava, with the heavy surf; a beach facing northeast and open to […]
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Praia do Forno - Oven Beach Buzios
Truely a gem on the Buzios Peninsula is a beach that is actually colored by a certain mineral. The Brazilians call the mineral “granada“, and we found that it contains a great deal of iron - thus the reddish color of the sand here at Praia do Forno, or Oven Beach. We think it is […]
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Praia da Azeda - Azeda Beach Buzios
A small sign pointed right. Praia da Azeda/Azedinha. Two of the most spectacular beaches in South America. To find them in the small fishing village of Búzios, we took the fold-up map, generously offered by another tourist who had a few, and parked the rental car at a plaza a hundred feet from another spectacle, […]
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Praia Foca - Seal Beach Buzios
It’s not a big beach. It’s even hard to reach. So why is it people go out of their way to find this little piece of the Búzios landscape? Mainly because it really is hard to get to, so it’s never crowded. There’s enough sand for laying in the sun. Enough surf to lull you […]
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Orla Bardot - Bardot Cove Buzios
When you make a trip to Búzios, as you do your research, you’ll find that the French played a significant part in its history. It was French pirates who in the mid 1500′s made great friends with the local Tamoio Indians and harvested Brazilwood to take back with them to France. But didn’t the Portuguese […]
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Best Beaches of Buzios Brazil
Buzios is located just an hour or so outside of Rio and the only reason you’d go there is to get away from the crowds that move into the beaches in Rio during the holiday season - but - news flash! They are here in Buzios, as well. The only time you can have the […]
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Praia Rasa - Flat Beach Buzios
The longest beach of Buzios isn’t on the peninsula. It’s Praia Rasa and sits on the northern shoulder. If you thought Praia de Manguinhos was long, Praia Rasa is even longer, boasting more than two continuous miles of beach. You could do some serious jogging here. Tucked away, off the peninsula of Buzios proper is […]
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Praia do Canto - Canto Beach Buzios
Located just west of the main part of the town center, Praia do Canto in Búzios is a lovely cove with generally calm seas. Along the west coast there’s a large outcropping of rock which lends to a large forest covered cliff. The green goes on to the point where we’re out to open sea. […]
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Beaches of Buzios, RJ - Brazil
History of Buzios Were there really pirates in these here parts? ………………………………………………….. Praia dos Tucuns - Tucuns Beach Nice, large beach. Unpopulated. Paragliding, fishing. Beautiful! ………………………………………………….. Praia de Geribá - Geriba Beach Buzios’ most “happening” beach. The party starts here! ………………………………………………….. Praia Ferradurinha - Ferradurinha Beach Smaller sister beach to Ferradura, is a horseshoe as […]
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Praia da Armacao - Armacao Beach Buzios
The northern shore of Búzios is really where it all began. First with the pirates who found that the bay on this side of Búzios was best for loading precious Brazilwood and other pilfered oddities that they found in the New World. Later, the French “organized” what the pirates were already doing and continued to […]
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Praia das Virgens - Virgin Beach Buzios
Sounds like something out of a book, but Praia das Virgens is an actual beach, well, a bit of sand between a few rocks, but there’s nothing else like it in Buzios, so locals love to call it one more beach in the many beaches here. And that’s OK by us because we want to […]
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Praia da Ferradura - Ferradura Beach Buzios
This is the beach we were told had more celebrities than any other in Buzios, but who knows. We considered the source and still had a good time taking in the rays and a few shots of the surrounds of Praia da Ferradura. This is the beach where MTV’s Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel […]
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