Located in Northeastern Brazil, about 50 miles distance from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state capital, Pipa is a gorgeous beach place where people from all over the world join together its spectacles. The place congregates a diversified landscape, from the white sand beaches to the preserved evergreen of the Atlantica forest, the astonishing cliffs, and the cutie little town with a diversity of restaurants, elegant stores and useful local service, Pipa is like a paradise!To walk around the place in any season of the year you will need a pair of flip-flops (the most famous Brazilian brands sold in town), sunblock, swimming, surf, kite-surf, scuba dive and/or hiking stuff or just a ocean view room with a hammock! It's your choice! I choose to stay at the Luz da Lua Pousada (Bed&Breakfast) and I truly recommend the place. It's like being at home, or at your beach house, the staff is very friendly and the breakfast has local fresh fruits and juices. That was my third trip to Pipa! I will go back as many times as I possibly will, for sure!
This is a wonderful beach close to Natal. Water and sight viewing is really nice. The problem is that there is no good infrastructure. Parking is a nightmare and the restaurants are overcrawd and the staff can rarely give you a meat service. You can have fun and good drinks if you don't care to wait a lot.
Around 1.5hs from Natal, it is a very nice beach with plenty of activities and an amazing landscape with cliffs and sea. All around the beach there are a lot of options of restaurants where you can have excellent seafood and regional dishes.
I spent a weekend in Pipa and the only bad thing was I wanted to stay longer! The beach is beautiful and swim with the Dolphins without having to pay for it, it was wordless. The night life it's also great! Lots of parties going on in the town not to mention the acai bowls everywhere. Gotta love it!
It was an okey small Beach to visit. I prefear the biggest one. too small but good Place to sit. resturant options
This is amazing! I have been to Pipa twice and have loved baia dos gofinhos both times. Once arriving at downtown Pipa walk down towards the beach and then go left for about 10-15 minutes on foot. If the tide is high be careful as you will have to go through many rocks which can be slippery and dangerous. Once crossing those rocks you will find yourself at the baia dos gofinhos. Don't go on the boat ride, rent a kayak or stand up paddle instead at Pipa Surf school and go out to the sea up until the yellow buoys and prepare to have an amazing experimenter of seeing lovely dolphins swish right by your side. It's simply perfection!
It is a must see, definitely! But as every one knows that, it is very crowded, specially in summer. It is great early mornings or around 4 pm, when there are not many people. The scenery is magnificent, you can see fishes and other sea animals really close to the beach and it is really breathtaking. On the other hand, there are way too many people and restrooms are not allowed at the beach, so owners of houses close to it rent their washrooms for public use. The food is quite expensive compared to other places we have been in Rio Grande do Norte and it is not really worth it.
This is another place in the notheast brazilian coast, surrounded of perfect beachs, warm whater, good food, good people and even dolphins swuimming arround.How can you refuse to take part of this world?
Pipa is one of the most amazing beaches near to Natal. There are at least 11 beaches for visiting. Each one better than the other.
It's a very small town, although they do have a health clinic just in case. It takes too long to get there. When you arrive, the city is inundated with tourists. They even try to scam you by asking you to pay on a PUBLIC street. They get in your face asking you if you want to do some kind of dive with dolphins. They beach is covered in rocks (don't think about running whatsoever) and there are no public bathrooms. You have to pay 2 reais even if you simply want to change. I can see why this placed USED TO BE great, but today it's a tourist trap/over played.