Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Forte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.ย 

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Hello, Guys! Hope you are having a fun week.

Today I am starting a new series on my blog to talk more about things that are not food or recipes related as you can noticed by this title “Life Beyond Cooking”. I’ve been eager to post more personal things that show more about what I’ve been doing lately and that’s the reason why I created this series. I’ll be sharingย trips we may do, activities we do on the weekends, someย favourite finds around the web,ย some of the products I fell in love with and my life as a mom, wife and food blogger. Normally I share a lot on myย newsletter (please, click here to sign up), but Iย don’t talk much about the behind-the-scenes here on the blogย because I always think this space is only for recipes. However, why not go beyond the kitchen and show a little bit more about my life to myย loyal readers? I think t’s a great idea, right? These posts will have much more photos than writing, but I hope you are cool with that. I hope you all enjoy this seriesย ๐Ÿ˜‰

Picture below: Pierre who is my husband, my little baby boy Thomas and my cute nephew from Montreal, Dominic.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

So, today I’ll be sharing lots of pictures from a beautiful beach we visited last month inย Brazil. The beach is called Praia do Forteย and it’s about 80km from the city of Salvador-Bahia, located in northeastern Brazil. We chose to visit this beach because it is known for its clear waters, natural pools, rivers and an ecological reserve of natural forests and wild life. If you don’t know I’mย originally from Brasil. The city I used to live is called Salvador and my family is still living in this city. I’m the only one who immigrated to Canada. So, before leavingย Brazil I used toย visit Praia do Forte many times and when my in-laws told me that wanted to visitย Brazil, I thought this beach would be the perfect place to spend their vacation.

Also, this beach is very calm for babies and kids. It doesn’t have strong waves in the morning. In fact this beach hasย gorgeousย natural poolsย thatย haveย formed along the coral reef when the tide is low. And since it was the first time my baby Thomas where in the beach (he went two times before with me to another beach, but he didn’t really enjoy it because he slept the whole time) I was sure this was a safe beach to be with him. He loved the beach, the sand, the ocean and coconut water. He had a very good time in the ocean. He loved watching the fishesย swimming.
Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

This was the first time my two families were together in Brazil. My in-laws stayed few days in the city (Salvador) at my sister’s home and after that we went together to the nice beach house we rented in Praia do Forte. The house was big enough to have space for the whole family (my Brazilianย family and my Canadian family). It had a BBQ area, pool, 40ย meters from the beach and very close to the small village with lots ofย deliciousย restaurants.

Picture below: My parents-in-law who I call my Canadian parents. Love these two ๐Ÿ˜‰

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Below you can see my parents, my nephew Dominic, my husband with our baby.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

In the little village there isย The Projeto TAMAR (in Portuguese TAMAR is the abbreviation of Tartarugas Marinhas, the Sea Turtles). Thisย project is a Brazilian non-profit organization where they protect sea turtles from extinction in the Brazilian coastline. Here are some pictures below from this awesome place.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

The baby see turtles at the ITAMAR Project.ย ย There were lots of tiny turtles in there. Also, there are fewย artificial pools where they take care of different types and sizes of sea turtles, as well as other sea creatures.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

This was the last day in the beach. The day was beautiful, sunny and very warm. We spent almost 6 hours enjoying every single moment of our vacations.ย What a beautiful beach! The water was so clear, warm and it was full of small fishesย swimmingย around us. Amazing!

Life Beyond Cooking: Visiting Praia do Porte! This is a very beautiful and incredible beach to visit with your family in Brazil.

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6 Comments

  1. Silvia @ Garden in the Kitchen says:

    What a beautiful post cousin! I am so happy you were able to gather both your Brazilian and Canadian Family in beautiful Brazil. Thomas is sooooo cute. LOVE HIM!! Big hugs and can’t wait to see you guys soon (I hope)

    1. Olivia Ribas says:

      thanks a lot, my sweet cousin! I can’t wait to visit you again in Boston. Miss you a lot ๐Ÿ˜‰

  2. Juanita says:

    Beautiful pictures of both sets of parents. Thomas looks so much like his father. I enjoy your blog, recipes are delicious. And it’s wonderful that you can spend quality time with your whole family. Goodness what made you leave Brazil for Canada( brr). Lol

    1. Olivia Ribas says:

      Thanks a lot, Juanita. I’m glad to know you enjoy my blog, Juanita ๐Ÿ˜‰ Yes, everybody says Thomas looks a lot like his father! I know Brazil is awesome, but Canada is great too. I love both countries ๐Ÿ˜‰

  3. Carla says:

    Thank you for sharing Olivia! Beautiful family and country!

    1. Olivia Ribas says:

      Thanks a lot, Carla ๐Ÿ˜‰