Porto Seguro, Brazil....

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Originally Posted by B. Rago

I've been there when I was a teenager, about ten years ago. Hated everything. The hotel was OK. And that's the only praise about Porto Seguro.

The place is dirty, poor, depressing. Only a total wasted person can have fun in such a place.

I had a major anguish while going into the seawater - the beaches there are full of algae, and those plants keep rolling on your feet.

You get bothered all the time by the shore by people selling earings, henna tatoos, hair dressings. It was impossible to have a conversation and sunbathing without interruptions every three minutes.

The food is expensive and tasteless.

Trancoso is a beach with a violent sea, full of hippies selling T-shirts (all alike; Porto Seguro is not even original) and a small colonial village with bad preservation. If you're into brazilian colonial architeture, go to Minas Gerais, don't waste your time in Porto Seguro.

Arraial D'Ajuda is a small square with expensive stores that sell the same expensive T-shirts hippies do at Trancoso.

And the parties are a horror show apart. Only "axé" music playing the loudest possible, with ugly people dancing and the ugly turists trying to imitate them.

Don't waste your money there... And if you're nearby, RUN!

So are you a beautiful person who only wants to hang out with the beautiful people? What constitutes a beautiful person?

Your comments only make me more curious about this Porto Seguro place I would like to check it out.

[EricOldTime]

Originally Posted by B. Rago

I've been there when I was a teenager, about ten years ago. Hated everything. The hotel was OK. And that's the only praise about Porto Seguro.

The place is dirty, poor, depressing. Only a total wasted person can have fun in such a place.

I had a major anguish while going into the seawater - the beaches there are full of algae, and those plants keep rolling on your feet.

You get bothered all the time by the shore by people selling earings, henna tatoos, hair dressings. It was impossible to have a conversation and sunbathing without interruptions every three minutes.

The food is expensive and tasteless.

Trancoso is a beach with a violent sea, full of hippies selling T-shirts (all alike; Porto Seguro is not even original) and a small colonial village with bad preservation. If you're into brazilian colonial architeture, go to Minas Gerais, don't waste your time in Porto Seguro.

Arraial D'Ajuda is a small square with expensive stores that sell the same expensive T-shirts hippies do at Trancoso.

And the parties are a horror show apart. Only "axé" music playing the loudest possible, with ugly people dancing and the ugly turists trying to imitate them.

Don't waste your money there... And if you're nearby, RUN!

I love it!!

Welcome to a large portion of South America....

Sounds in many ways like alot of places.. especially the larger cities

Everythings not really cheap ( if you live here ) lot's of folks constantly trying to "hock" stuff or "beg" Everyone down here is always trying to turn a buck, it's a major preocupation.

loud music...gheeze don't get me started ....LOL south america as a whole... in my neighborhood the noisy parties start at 12:00 midnight and goes on until 8 in the morning!!Not to mention CONSTANT traffic, up and down the street, people screaming, singing loudly as they drive by.....

it's latin-america! That's the way they roll here

Ohh but the ladies are usually very beautiful....usually

But I still love it, had some great adventures, and some not so great ones too...