We went to Recife right after the day my vacation started. I was so busy at school to write anything. Well, how can I start? We took a plane to Recife. The 1st day, we went to this place near Recife called Olinda. We went there to visit a Buddhist temple, we met abbess Jue Xi and ate lunch there.
In the temple, we met a very nice man, he knew a lot about the history in Olinda so he took us on a tour to see some important churches. They were all REALLY old; some were even 500 years old!! But the best one we saw was a 400, okay, to be exact 428 year old church. It was BEAUTIFUL!! It was all gold, like the roof was gold, the statues were gold….. EVERYTHING was gold. And the gold wasn’t just gold paint; it was a thin layer of real, actual gold.
On the second day, we wandered around Recife. Near the beach, there was a big tent. You had to pay for a ticket so you can enter the tent to see the World Cup soccer matches. Then it started raining, so we hid inside a small tent until the rain stopped.
Fortunately, the rain didn’t last long. So we went around the city, along the coast, we saw something interesting: there were “Beware: SHARKS” signs all over the beach!! My dad explained that the early settlers from Portugal built a port and the sharks were driven all the way to the coasts of Recife, and they’re still here now.
The next day we went to Porto de Galinhas. After the car ride, we arrived to Enotel, a hotel in Porto de Galinhas. It was really pretty and it had lots of awesome pools. It was right beside to beach, but you can’t swim in the seawater because it’s deep and has a lot of waves, so if a wave comes it might whisk you out to the ocean. We heard about a place called Pisina Naturais, it was a place where you can swim around and see fish, so the next day we went there. It was really cool!!
Find out more in Swimming With Fish - Pisina Naturais.
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