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Riding
You can choose to come from two to 14 days and ride almost every day. The comment above that Angela made, is referring to an 11-day trip, of which 8 nights and 7 days were at Sempre Verde Ecolodge, 1 day in Olinda and 1 day at the beach.
Here below you can find a programme for 14 nights and 15 days. Even if you wouldn’t like to stay for so long, you can see all the different riding treks and activities that we offer, also for shorter stays.
SEMPRE VERDE ECOLODGE, PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL
Welcome to our tropical mountain-rides in Brazil, mixed with culture and sea!
15 – day program
1:st day (Thursday):
The group arrives in the afternoon or evening to Recife airport Guararapes, and go by transfer to a well recommended hotel in the Old Town of Olinda, where the guests can rest on the terrace and feel the warm tropical breeze on their skin. Dinner is served on arrival at the hotel or nearby restaurant.
2:nd day (Friday):
Breakfast at 7:00 a.m. At 8 a.m. the guests get to know a little about Brazilian colonial history and the Old Town of Olinda, with its beautiful views over the sea, calm streets, colored low houses, handicraft and friendly people.
Lunch at a local restaurant below big palm trees.
At 1:30 p.m. Visit to the Oficina Brennand, a magic place of arts in ceramic, surrounded by Atlantic Rainforest. The world famous artist Fransisco Brennand uses to be present among his arts.
In the evening we can join a Capoeira training on the street or a similar cultural event.
Dinner at a nearby restaurant.
3:rd day (Saturday):
An excursion to the island of Itamaracá: the project Save the Manatee and the Observatory of migratory birds at the old Fort Orange.
Lunch on the Island.
1:30 p.m. Visit to a Museum: “The Man from the Northeast” or other similar.
Dinner at a nearby restaurant.
4:th day (Sunday):
The morning is free to walk on the calm streets or to do handicraft shopping in Olinda (a multi variety of handicraft and arts).
OPTIONAL: Visit to the Zoo in order to get to know the fauna from the Atlantic Rainforest and the steppe of the northeast of Brazil (extra fee is charged for transfer, interpreter and entrance).
Lunch at a nearby restaurant.
At 1:30 p.m. transfer for 2 hours to Gravatá’s countryside in the highlands. At 3:30 p.m. we receive our guests at the Sempre Verde Ecolodge. After a welcome snack with tropical fruits, we have an introduction to the ecological technology on the farm, see the banana plantation and get to know the horses. We end the day with a short walk in order to join the sunset at a beautiful view over a big valley.
Dinner at 7 p.m. at the Lodge. Always traditional food and homemade bread.
5:th day (Monday):
Breakfast at 6 o’clock. At 7 a.m. we prepare the horses, adapt the saddles to each rider and ride out for the day. We ride through a hilly landscape, with plantations of flowers, vegetables and fruits, and enormous pastures. If we are lucky we can join the native guide when he drives the cattle from our way, We arrive to the waterfall at midday, where we take a swim in it’s pool, have lunch beneath a palm roof and rest in hammocks.
At 3.30 p.m. we go back another way, make a visit to a smallholding and have some canters before we come home by sunset.
(5-6 hours on the horseback)
Dinner at 7 p.m. at the Lodge.
6:th day (Tuesday):
After an early breakfast we go by car to an old fashion Horse- and Cattle fair in Caruaru. We also join the biggest Handicraft-market of Brazil, and visit a farm to learn about cattle holding.
Lunch in Gravatá.
Visit to a local artist and a Street kid project.
Arrival to the Lodge after sunset.
Dinner at 7 :30 p.m.
7:th day (Wednesday):
After breakfast we prepare the horses and ride out, down to the "green steppe", where the climate is warmer and drier, but still is blessed with the water that comes from the highlands, where water is a rich source. We have lunch at a bar in an interesting village. We rest in the shadow of the church, where the people gather on the church’s steps. We go back up the hills at 3:30 p.m
We arrive at sunset to the Lodge.
(5-6 hours on the horseback)
Dinner at 7.p.m. at the Lodge.
8:th day (Thursday):
A later breakfast for tired bodies. We learn how to harvest a banana stock, we visit our neighbors’ organic plantation by foot, and join the production of a basket made from lianas and a carpet made from dried banana leaves.
Lunch at the Lodge.
At 2 p.m. we go out for a ride, but with several stops. We learn about the way of life of some peasant farmers and their kids in the Green Valley, have a bath in a beautiful little damn surrounded by big bamboo-trees, and visit the hosts home in their solar energy house. We get to know the plantation of shadow-coffee, and the happy hens that produce the Lodge’s eggs and we can see them fly up to the branches to have their night sleep. We also make a visit to a flower-producer and a little social project in the village, where we can join children when learning to make handicraft by recyclable materials and taking care of their environment. Perhaps there will be an opportunity to by handicraft made by the children. (A project financed by Swedish people, Sempre Verde Ecolodge and the local environment association.)
We come back by sunset.
(2 hours on the horseback, but 4 hours of activities.)
Dinner at 7:30 p.m. at the Lodge.
9:th day (Friday):
Today we will get to know a little bit more about the rainforest. We ride and walk carefully on the trails, taste cactus marmalade with cream cracker and tropical juice at a peasant farmers’ home.
We have a bath in a little river, and lunch at a peasant farmers’ home. On our way back we will have some good canters.
(4 hours on the horseback, but a whole day with experiences.)
Dinner at 7 p.m. at the Lodge.
10:th day (Saturday):
We take the local bus at 6 o’clock to the town where we also have breakfast. We get to know the “free” markets: vegetables, fruits, meat, cereals, second-hand, animal, clothes and others. We also make some shopping in two horse/tack shops.
After lunch at a self-service restaurant, we visit a stud farm and get to know the Brazilian pure breed horse Mangalarga Marchador, whose tölt we can experience in a ride in the neighborhood.
We come back at 7 p.m. at Sempre Verde Ecolodge.
(90 min – 2 hrs on the horseback.)
Dinner at 7:30 p.m. at the Lodge.
11:th day (Sunday):
At 5 a.m. we prepare the horses and ride out over the day. We take the road through the MST-settlement where we can have a lot of good canters before the day gets hot, and arrive to our already known waterfall some hours later. We go for a swim in the waterfall, have breakfast and rest in the hammocks beneath the palm-roof or at the waterfall.
OPTIONAL: For the ones who still have energy, we offer two extra activities: at 9:30 a.m. we have a walk for 1,5 hours on the riverside and for the most courageous persons we offer an experience of climbing down the waterfall’s cliff face, with safety belts and -ropes, with professional guide. Extra fee is charged for these activities.
We have lunch at 1 p.m., rest a little in the hammocks, and go back at 3:00 p.m. We ride back over the great pastures on the hills with their white cattle and beautiful panoramic views. Some good canters in the fresh afternoon winds of the mountains will finish the last day in the highlands. We come back to the Sempre Verde Ecolodge after sunset.
MST means movement for landless rural workers.
(5-6 hours on the horseback.)
Dinner at 7:30 at the Lodge.
12:th day (Monday):
An early breakfast at 6:30 a.m. for our leaving guests. At 7:30 a.m. the Van drives away to next stop, the sugar cane farm and fabric where we can join the production of syrup, raw and white sugar, and spirits. It is possible to buy products.
Lunch in the area.
The group arrives in the afternoon to the beach hotel. Dinner is taken on a restaurant near the hotel, as well as the lunch the other days. Here the guests are by their own, without any guide. They can have a swim in the sea, a walk on the beach, go for a boat ride or rent some horses ( we cannot guarantee the quality of the horses neither the access to them over the whole year).
13:th day (Tuesday):
Breakfast at the hotel. The day is free for beach activities. Lunch and dinner at a nearby restaurant.
During the day there will be a guided raft boat tour in a mangrove area, where the seahorse is being protected.
14:th day (Wednesday):
Rest and bath. Rent a horse or by a boat trip on the sea. Lunch and dinner at a nearby restaurant.
15:th day (Thursday):
After breakfast transfer to the airport in Recife.
Please note: Not included in the price: 6 lunches, 5 dinners and alcoholic drinks.
Program is subject to change without prior notice due to weather, season or other unforeseen circumstances.
On this 15 day program, activities are added to a 11 day program. From the afternoon on the 4:th day and until the breakfast on the 12:th day the programs are the same.
E-mail: info@sempreverde.tur.br
Telephone: 55+81+3533.7524 or cedllphone 55+81+9958.3861. Ask for Malin.
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