Spirituality

Jericoacoara is a kind of religious place, very spiritual. It is also very hippy and all sorts of animals wander around the sandy streets. The village is built on a beach.


The place is spiritual first for windsurfers and kitesurfers as it is blessed with the best wind all year round. Maybe the best place in Brazil for these sports, let alone on earth.

But the real religious thing happens at 5pm everyday, as the sun goes down. Sunset in Jericoacoara is stunning. At 5pm, a stream of people (tourists and locals) start walking up the dune located to the South of the village. It is like a religious procession.


People go up the dune to witness the wonderful sunset. What happens here is what might have been happening before Christianity when people believed in the gods of nature, the sun, the earth, the wind, the trees...

In Jericoacoara people go witness the sunset from the same dune, everyday, all year round. It is very spiritual, as if an ancient religion re-appeared. When you get to the top of the dune you sit down, relax, stop talking, look West, let the last rays of sun warm your body and witness the end of another day. When the big red circle disappears, everybody claps. This is weird, it is like the end of a show or something... But it is very soothing and relaxing. You can spend 1h up there, waiting for the sunset which will last 2.5mn.


When the ´show´ ends, we all run down the dune and head for the village. There, capoeara is being ´played´ by the beach with everybody moving, clapping and singing to the sound of drums and berimbaus. The spiritual duties have been carried out, the night can start.