.Jericoacoara is a beach located in the northeast of Brazil, close to the equator line, in the state of Ceará. It was, until about 15 years ago, an isolated fisherman village, without any sort of contact with modern civilization. There were no roads, no electric energy, no phones, no TV´s, no newspapers, and money was something almost useless, since deals were based on trading fish for goods. On 1984 the place was recognised as a "Environmental Protection Area" by a federal law.

. Street illumination still comes from the moon and the stars. In 1994, the north-american newspaper "Washington Post Magazine" pointed, on a special holiday issue, Jericoacoara as one of the 10 most beautiful beaches in the world.

Although tourism has reached the place, for it´s extraordinary beauty, it still keeps the rushless and peaceful way of life. But what makes the place so special? Jericoacoara has more than one single reason to be considered a paradise. The place is a set of several different sceneries, altogether in a very beautiful and harmonic mixture. And not only to be seen, but to be felt. The intense contact with nature, and the sensation of freedom

that the place transmits, a place where everything is so wide, and no kind of behaviour is restricted, mark Jericoacoara forever in the memories of those who happen to know it.