Diabetes Management And Preventive Care

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> We get a lot of questions on effective <b style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diabetes Management</b> and Preventive Care. Many people are anxious about their invincible blood sugar levels and are depressed that they cannot eat their favourite foods or engage in their favourite activities. How to tackle blood sugar is the real question when it comes to <i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">diabetes management</i>.</div> <h1 style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Andada, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; display: inline;"><img alt="fruits" border="0" class="alignright" height="193" src="http://blog.nirogam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fruits_thumb1.png" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 12px 5px 7px; outline: none 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="244" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Diabetes Management: Diet Control</span></span></h1> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Diet plays a major role in controlling your blood sugar. Surprisingly, there is no special diet for the diabetics. Diabetics can eat all natural and whole foods including whole grains, fruits and vegetables. It is, however, advisable to get Glycemic Index for food so that they can avoid high glycemic foods like white flour, sugars, puffs and flakes, potatoes and more.  In carbohydrates, concentrating on complex carbohydrates (whole grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes) could change life dramatically. They are fibrous and get absorbed slower than refined carbs and hence have a lesser effect on blood sugar. Many people believe that carbs are bad while proteins are good. The truth is, you need them both. Unfortunately, protein rich foods contain a lot of saturated fat too. For <u style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">diabetes management</u> purposes, aim for lean proteins like soy, chicken, sea food or beans. A diabetic diet should have 15% to 20% of proteins out of the total calories in a day.</div> <h2 style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diabetes Management: Physical Activity</span></h2> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Diabetics can find relief through daily physical activity. At least 30 minutes of activity is a must. However, next to doctor’s permission, what you need to keep in mind is hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)which could happen with strenuous physical activity. In order to avoid this, a diabetes management that some people do is to snack before exercise or carry a sugar drink with them. Also, weight loss can help a great deal in bringing the unhappy figures down.</div> <h3 style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diabetes Management: Sleeping Habits</span></h3> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="diabetes management" border="0" class="alignleft" height="153" src="http://blog.nirogam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/poor_sleep_thumb1.png" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 12px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="147" /></div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Poor sleep and diabetes are long time friends. Sleep hikes blood sugar thus: Those who lack quality sleep at night eat more to keep up their energy levels. This will increase their sugar level. If you do not eat well, then you sleep less and again, the cycle is affected. Lack of sleep is also linked to obesity and weight gain. If you have diabetes and have disturbed sleep, that’s not surprising either. For diabetes management, restrict caffeine and alcohol intake, avoid heavy dinner, exercise and take warm bath before bed time to improve sleep. A healthy snack before bed time with a consistent routine is very helpful.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span id="more-6452" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diabetes Management: Stress</span></div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you have been doing everything on the diabetes management and preventive care and see no results, blame it on stress! Stress is a villain and it creates havoc in your bloodstream. When you are under stress, it makes the body work harder to cope better by causing the “flight response”. As the body gets ready to fight it takes up the stored fat to produce the energy. for flight or fight. Since there is a lack of insulin in the Diabetic, the blood glucose released is not controlled. For stress management, meditation and yoga are very beneficial.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some Natural Ayurvedic Remedies For Diabetes Management</span></div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="diabetes management" border="0" class="aligncenter" height="244" src="http://blog.nirogam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fig_thumb1.png" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 12px 5px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="223" /></div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Some natural ayurvedic remedies for Diabetes management are mentioned below. No advice is good advice for all. So what worked for your friend may not work for you. These diabetes management natural ayurvedic remedies are not meant to replace your drugs. Also, one thing to keep in mind is that home remedies may cause a sudden fall in the blood sugar level.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Cinnamon -</strong> This spice has great blood sugar regulating properties. Add powdered cinnamon to your curry or beverage.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Fenugreek Tea –</strong> It is very effectively used by some people. Boil fenugreek seeds in water, simmer, strain and drink daily.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Black beans-</strong> Throw in salads and curries.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Fig Leaves -</strong> Fig leaves are to be boiled in water for some time until its essence seeps in. This fig tea can be take first thing in the morning.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Black Seed  Oil</strong> – A teaspoon of oil extracted from black seed or black cumin seed everyday is claimed to be promising remedy for Diabetes Type II.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Indian Gooseberry -</strong> A tablespoon of gooseberry juice mixed with a cup of bitter gourd juice taken daily should help those watch diet and exercise. Boiled gooseberry (ideally without salt) can also be consumed daily.</div> <div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Saptarangi –</strong> A herbal remedy for Diabetes is Saptarangi or Salacia-Oblonga  which helps to treat Diabetes Type II.</div> </div>

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The Mauritian Government introduced a special procedure simplifying the bureaucracy for non-resident couples, allowing you to focus on more important things, enjoying each and every moment of your special day…</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Even though the destination wedding ceremony may not help you save lots of money ,it’s really a fantastic departure from what usually makes up a wedding and can certainly help you save a lot of strain. Destination weddings are often less complicated and without any details that will make the special day just about the most stress filled in your life. So where would you go for the destination wedding? These locations are probably the most romantic and popular for the fantasy holidays.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Mexico 2 Paradise Wedding Destinations" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-318" height="461" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Mexico_2.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Mexico_2" width="620" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Mexico has numerous stunning shorelines and places, but a couple of the best looking for wedding ceremonies are Cozumel and Cancun. Each year a large number of partners go to those beautiful beach hotels to swap wedding rings. Far from all the tension of home, partners could be on honeymoon vacation when they get married. Mexico is ideal for beach guests and supporters of water sports activities like scuba diving or snorkelling. The water is magnificent and the sand is white. Mexico is a perfect exotic place to get married. Wedding destinations are plentiful there.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Mexico Paradise Wedding Destinations" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-316" height="413" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Mexico_.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Mexico_" width="620" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Who does not adore Hawaii? Hopefully, you’ll adore your better half all over again on the big day in Ohau or Maui. The Hawaiian Islands are filled with spectacular natural splendour. Hotels in Hawaii are designed to provide visitors the very best of extravagance and comfort.</span><br /> <span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBZsujzwXdEHHaXBH3blXyz1hcwJNVGD1M51Kf7wM-NTANrKYSIUD2lYPybgny6PekGnOFv_IumKRzClSaE6CqjFs0k1kikULgn45ti5lClrM3yNSdjbxed2AM4injaIS0AAIH5X557EJ/s1600/Hawaii.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBZsujzwXdEHHaXBH3blXyz1hcwJNVGD1M51Kf7wM-NTANrKYSIUD2lYPybgny6PekGnOFv_IumKRzClSaE6CqjFs0k1kikULgn45ti5lClrM3yNSdjbxed2AM4injaIS0AAIH5X557EJ/s1600/Hawaii.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9rE_wdCyu5S8kOYrCwDZQQ1Nf3saphUVK-YNIr-GxqnNysvE-KQZ0h3VGMoEycNBB9z6DMhYqwNgK60lCdcDR1k6ssF6F5qrqQWQwnCCqAjlXy425o91iGRNIpyOgd8lQSQqwcgOOs5M/s1600/ido.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9rE_wdCyu5S8kOYrCwDZQQ1Nf3saphUVK-YNIr-GxqnNysvE-KQZ0h3VGMoEycNBB9z6DMhYqwNgK60lCdcDR1k6ssF6F5qrqQWQwnCCqAjlXy425o91iGRNIpyOgd8lQSQqwcgOOs5M/s1600/ido.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1z7lhMmnqEX5DkK4vc4OIdi603nRCV2Z235VQHAQBMYkgqHlkGU2Jp0TKdlHUVDS2ZfuD26x3fBgayT7SIeiJzowhETEqLO0vjI8H5Un24YAMvx6apA4mOldQXcpRHfe1jmLAPgEaGf-Q/s1600/Hawaii+Big+Island+Wedding+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1z7lhMmnqEX5DkK4vc4OIdi603nRCV2Z235VQHAQBMYkgqHlkGU2Jp0TKdlHUVDS2ZfuD26x3fBgayT7SIeiJzowhETEqLO0vjI8H5Un24YAMvx6apA4mOldQXcpRHfe1jmLAPgEaGf-Q/s1600/Hawaii+Big+Island+Wedding+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="color: #444444;">Bermuda never ever is out of style. Employees at the hotels around the islands set you up with tours of the beaches and reefs. Both you and your new wife or husband will enjoy the comfort of a location wedding in Bermuda. You may go diving, take long strolls on the seaside, or simply hole yourself up inside your magnificent accommodation for some time. Your friends and relatives won’t get to enjoy in the wedding, however they will at the same time have probably the greatest holidays of their life.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="font-size: 12px;"> <img alt="Bermuda Paradise Wedding Destinations" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-311" height="411" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Bermuda.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Bermuda" width="620" /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqRlKUzFnt8-Dy0_UIxXtXDH5Zi0DO_YGl1HNO0LzSYjKxJNpYkNDQV-_iCjd1B5hxJyjZ_j7Gq44fR7hs9SX86Edcckt2Dym9sHajzN7a6zkJEXcROY7uyxvlkPlacnFWfjq_WKxWAmL/s1600/beach-wedding-5-widescreen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqRlKUzFnt8-Dy0_UIxXtXDH5Zi0DO_YGl1HNO0LzSYjKxJNpYkNDQV-_iCjd1B5hxJyjZ_j7Gq44fR7hs9SX86Edcckt2Dym9sHajzN7a6zkJEXcROY7uyxvlkPlacnFWfjq_WKxWAmL/s1600/beach-wedding-5-widescreen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEh3Il-yehtSUmotPc5n0CW_C2jF96wgotrmfG44fjT8HoGByS7a6XrWfyTY_IYv6ssvjcfFv9JJJvlsXpO2pxMEeQEGQpePpsR_IRQvpK4SMwz5Aez0pJdMsd3ZSe1xkbmytkFriAHr5/s1600/bermuda-beach-wedding-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEh3Il-yehtSUmotPc5n0CW_C2jF96wgotrmfG44fjT8HoGByS7a6XrWfyTY_IYv6ssvjcfFv9JJJvlsXpO2pxMEeQEGQpePpsR_IRQvpK4SMwz5Aez0pJdMsd3ZSe1xkbmytkFriAHr5/s1600/bermuda-beach-wedding-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="color: #444444;">Jamaica is definitely an ever-popular place to go for weddings due to the lively culture and history. Guests adore Jamaica because of its relaxing people, warm weather, and amusement. If you aren’t into clubs, you may discover Jamaica’s woodlands, falls, and different areas. Renowned beaches like Ocho Rios, Negril and Montego Bay are magnificent, exotic shores that’ll be enchanting on the wedding.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SKZbEtwPiHUyVcIy8gamANMlyCk7BounqsxkG_kSNMS1cEDNw5C7OOSlWEDhAspfa7kxHcguGHYYpx_q64oVVW8egaQSyIRyDUFyCx0LbpxOs3JWbjuNsGZoLachrE6UhZSITFVG2P0I/s1600/beach-wedding-setup-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SKZbEtwPiHUyVcIy8gamANMlyCk7BounqsxkG_kSNMS1cEDNw5C7OOSlWEDhAspfa7kxHcguGHYYpx_q64oVVW8egaQSyIRyDUFyCx0LbpxOs3JWbjuNsGZoLachrE6UhZSITFVG2P0I/s1600/beach-wedding-setup-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7Sox5bkrzIJpji59p5F0eMoZrmAcaPTVOdzZ_I2NtSrwb1Um6zvSwkguK8kQN3bDjOGFYGjuH17oqMzUYDVZyBb4GSWktEko5JGVdWb-36n3PvolMOUKknJkpQ1ssypQnpMWDxaKGKRU/s1600/Jamaica-Wedding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7Sox5bkrzIJpji59p5F0eMoZrmAcaPTVOdzZ_I2NtSrwb1Um6zvSwkguK8kQN3bDjOGFYGjuH17oqMzUYDVZyBb4GSWktEko5JGVdWb-36n3PvolMOUKknJkpQ1ssypQnpMWDxaKGKRU/s1600/Jamaica-Wedding.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">Las Vegas cannot be beat for a self-indulgent destination wedding to beat all the others. Where else could you get married, play the slot machines, see a tiger, have haute food, and see a program all within the same building? Las Vegas will be the deal that the family and friends will enjoy. If betting isn’t the thing for the guests, they may explore the nearby mountain tops as well as national parks, or visit the Cirque du Soleil performing one of its popular shows.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Las Vegas Paradise Wedding Destinations" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-315" height="412" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Las-Vegas.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Las Vegas" width="620" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div>

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Best of Fernando de Noronha - Brazil

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">In case you are like many individuals, you haven’t been aware of Fernando de Noronha. The gorgeous islands consists of Eleven sq . Kilometers of volcanic stone and twenty small isles. This unique stunning equatorial heaven is similar to the motion picture The Beach, apart from you might not get Leonardo Dicaprio right here. Situated Two hundred and twenty mls out of northeastern coastline of Brazil, Fernando de Noronha has been given its name after a 16th-century Colonial noble person who definitely have never in fact set foot to the isle. Nowadays the area is really a getaway to the wealthy of Brazil, and it is an extremely preserved eco-wonderland.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: auto;"><img alt="Fernando de Noronha Fernando de Noronha" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-30" height="600" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fernando_de_Noronha_.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Fernando de Noronha" width="900" /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span id="more-9" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Going swimming with sun block is actually, inside some areas, not allowed to protect the delicate environment. This helps to protect island’s beach locations, encircled with nice and untainted emerald green water where turtles and dolphins play. People today say that even the sharks tend to be pleasant inside Fernando de Noronha.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Fernando de Noronha 1 Fernando de Noronha" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-31" height="600" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fernando_de_Noronha_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Fernando_de_Noronha_1" width="900" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">The isles remote location as well as exclusiveness maintain price ranges excessive and also on level with the more expensive areas of Sao Paulo. If you notice numerous stylish newly-weds on their honeymoon next to tropic-hardened scientists, exposing the actual island’s divided individuality. A lot of food is traveled in, most of the resort’s “cottages” are usually more of 5-star locations, and also the island’s most typical type of travelling is by dune buggies. It is not the most eco-friendly choice but it’s practical due to the harsh roadways. Fernando de Noronha’s personality turmoil is apparent in the luxurious vs eco-friendly battle the island encounters.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Fernando de Noronha 2 Fernando de Noronha" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-32" height="590" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fernando_de_Noronha_2.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Fernando_de_Noronha_2" width="900" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">If you wish to verify or perhaps refuse the rumored hospitability from the sharks, have a charter boat visit to the island’s harbour to snorkel across the amazingly stunning Baia do Sancho. On the way you might pass by rock structures, turtles, flying fish, and barracudas. Additional nature features would be the strolling path to Baia do Sancho, that involves hiking two ladders on the pure cliff-face. Beyond the shorelines, jail remains provide a touch of lifestyle on Noronha prior to the modern day era. Gypsy people in 18th century and capoeira martial artists in the end of the 19th, had been imprisoned, oblivious their living nightmare might eventually grow to be a trendy eco-destination.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Fernando de Noronha 3 Fernando de Noronha" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33" height="675" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fernando_de_Noronha_3.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Fernando_de_Noronha_3" width="900" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">To travel to these particular deceptive isle vacationers can easily fly out of Sao Paulo to Recife, previous to carrying on over the Atlantic Ocean and on to an airstrip encompassed by rich greenery. Whenever you check your window over the insanely appealing scenery, your journey stresses is going to be right eliminated.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Fernando de Noronha 4 Fernando de Noronha" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-34" height="675" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fernando_de_Noronha_4.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Fernando_de_Noronha_4" width="900" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Once you pay for the Environment Safety Tax at the airport terminal, you’ll be on the way directly into tropical heaven.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="Fernando de Noronha 5 Fernando de Noronha" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-35" height="675" src="http://www.travelycia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Fernando_de_Noronha_5.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 5px auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Fernando_de_Noronha_5" width="900" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px;">Ask about Fernando de Noronha when you're in Sao Paulo, and your enquiry will invariably meet with a combination of wonderment, national pride, jealousy and misinformation. Fernando de Noronha is an island – named after a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman who may never have actually set foot there – that exists in the Brazilian imagination somewhere not far from Shangri-la, Atlantis and paradise. People glaze over when you mention it: eyeballs tend to roll upwards in that universal gesture of delight.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MdALe-qv7YO4bBNzuwXKgmmuBGOM-91ml1CNED6jiRkiD1bYUSM1wHpjgVAOB22XD7_xzd2x0WqnPxvNcTXPF037wqxeaNxWaHW7BWjaoDxvskR72bNB_g1TPBL1y-LapYliKrrunz0a/s1600/-Fernando-de-Noronha-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MdALe-qv7YO4bBNzuwXKgmmuBGOM-91ml1CNED6jiRkiD1bYUSM1wHpjgVAOB22XD7_xzd2x0WqnPxvNcTXPF037wqxeaNxWaHW7BWjaoDxvskR72bNB_g1TPBL1y-LapYliKrrunz0a/s1600/-Fernando-de-Noronha-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px;">We were told by friends, acquaintances and strangers – none of whom had actually been to Fernando de Noronha – to expect the most spectacular beaches in all of Brazil. Some were certain that jet aircraft are barred from landing there; others warned that there is only one hotel and absolutely no internet. Naomi Campbell, we were reliably informed, goes there to unwind after Sao Paulo Fashion Week, but – far from being just a bolt-hole for the wealthy – it is also a fiercely protected eco-wonderland, favoured by naturalists and marine biologists. The island's luxuriously warm and unsullied emerald waters are, it was widely agreed, teeming with dolphins and turtles. What's more, the consensus assured us that every type of shark common to the area is, in fact, friendly.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> Like most people from outside Latin American we had never heard of Fernando de Noronha, and because less than half of what we'd been told seemed even remotely plausible, we turned to Charles Darwin for supporting testimony. He stopped there in 1832, after one of his crew had harpooned a porpoise for supper (Darwin was evidently no Dr Dolittle), but spent only a day "wandering about the woods" before setting off in hopes of finding "greater wonders" elsewhere. His account – except for reports of "a conical hill, about one thousand feet high, the upper part of which is exceedingly steep" – is distinctly underwhelming. Would this living paradise, in reality, turn out to be little more than a product of mass exaggeration? Or would it live up to the hype?</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zVmXspAL2CLl_meu3IFP8XSTGjV6oL__uaAYfURHvAWI-WzFnI2Q2IM1ph-mATU2OgbbGb8Gn-uaU8HCGewnDhyphenhyphenZ53ObOFWnZqFdSWHK0l950T2gexWGcpWNUgOHhBnl7G1Ha8lrduIy/s1600/Fernando-de-Noronha-Island-Brazil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zVmXspAL2CLl_meu3IFP8XSTGjV6oL__uaAYfURHvAWI-WzFnI2Q2IM1ph-mATU2OgbbGb8Gn-uaU8HCGewnDhyphenhyphenZ53ObOFWnZqFdSWHK0l950T2gexWGcpWNUgOHhBnl7G1Ha8lrduIy/s1600/Fernando-de-Noronha-Island-Brazil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> Fernando de Noronha is, strictly speaking, an archipelago made up of one 11-square-mile chunk of volcanic rock and 20 smaller islands, three degrees south of the equator, 220 miles from Brazil's north-eastern coast. The flight from Sao Paulo – on a modern passenger jet, for the record – pauses briefly in the seafront city of Recife before continuing out into the Atlantic, and touching down on an airstrip that occupies a large portion of the lush, green interior. From above, the promise of an outrageously attractive wonderland – glinting turquoise sea, pristine sand – is instantly made good.</div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> After happily coughing up an Environment Protection Tax at the airport (seven days costs about £65 per person), we were taken by Land Rover to our hotel – the Pousada do Vale – a friendly place on a wooded lane near the island's first permanent settlement, the Vila dos Remédios. Within half an hour, we fully understood the basic climatic reality of life on Noronha during the rainy season (April to August) – bursts of blistering sunshine punctuated by torrential downpours. As a result, nature goes into overdrive: explosions of greenery; reptilian battalions of frogs and native, yellow-eyed mabuya lizards; and clouds of low-flying, almost invisible borrachudo mosquitoes that have a voracious appetite for human ankle flesh. Self-preservation quickly drove us to the most effective, but least environmentally friendly, of the two insect repellants offered by the pousada: not the ideal start on a Unesco World Heritage Site and designated maritime national park where swimming in sun-screen is, in places, forbidden lest the delicate eco-system be damaged.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXaRbEFEr-EgQZZYNEbfp-NiRbsaLvHblc55qByTllcaIippCFgBmykziPISAytQ6ItcErxfdgxnMvUxf1G348BSDNyAq_YtBrd86PqqgLv24Siv8hnZfFV6gAi2fP10dDliFz6W31dWY/s1600/fernando-de-noronha-brazil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBXaRbEFEr-EgQZZYNEbfp-NiRbsaLvHblc55qByTllcaIippCFgBmykziPISAytQ6ItcErxfdgxnMvUxf1G348BSDNyAq_YtBrd86PqqgLv24Siv8hnZfFV6gAi2fP10dDliFz6W31dWY/s1600/fernando-de-noronha-brazil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> As night fell like a cosh, the island's split-personality began to reveal itself. All the evidence so far had marked out Noronha as a dream destination for tropic-hardened biologists, but the appearance of several smartly dressed couples, picking their way gingerly over rain-slicked cobblestones, confirmed its bread-and-butter identity as a magnet for well-heeled honeymooners. Their shoes were muddied, and their lower legs were – like ours – borrachudo'd, but they had paid good money for romance in paradise and no extremes of nature were going to take that from them. The remoteness of the island – and its perceived value as the perfect holiday destination – keeps prices (food, lodging) perennially high, on a par with pricier quarters of Sao Paulo, enhancing its exclusivity and mystique.</div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> The evening, spent over several cans of lager at a bar called Tom Marrom, surrendered a colourful procession of diverse characters: a local teenager rode past on a horse, followed by a man in a dune buggy who appeared to be modelling himself after Steve McQueen's Thomas Crown. The dune buggy turns out to be the island's most common form of transportation: not exactly the environmentalist's first choice, but practical given a road system structured largely around the pot-hole, the gully and the rut. The bar's waitresses wore fake pig-tails and painted-on freckles, and danced – between deliveries of food – to the live forró band. Forró is an accordion-based type of folk-dance music particular to the north-east of Brazil, with an intoxicating and swampy feel to it. One band member traditionally plays the triangle, which we assumed was the least-taxing, most Bez-like role, until our trianglist started to sing, very well, and instantly shot up in our estimation.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfTFGnbYrHbl6aRB7wlhlYvb0L0ODtRRIXI3V79xrJzYVg7ps1vg70VXbkpw6T0kvMLTuJl7qyrjYy8a4Fw-8AnzKL87xVU-N5cfxLMUAGT0463_uyVAjBHsjwZ0HT7yKR7Cn31Aa_RVsi/s1600/Fernando+de+Noronha-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfTFGnbYrHbl6aRB7wlhlYvb0L0ODtRRIXI3V79xrJzYVg7ps1vg70VXbkpw6T0kvMLTuJl7qyrjYy8a4Fw-8AnzKL87xVU-N5cfxLMUAGT0463_uyVAjBHsjwZ0HT7yKR7Cn31Aa_RVsi/s1600/Fernando+de+Noronha-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> After a night spent under the watchful eye of several mabuyas, we set about discovering that the best of Noronha is to be found on and under the water. A three-hour round trip by boat from the island's small harbour is as good an introduction to the island as any, and features a 40-minute snorkelling stop at the astoundingly pretty Baia do Sancho. En route we were shown rock formations that (sort of) resemble a dog, an Egyptian mummy and King Kong, caught passing glimpses of flying fish, a stray turtle and several javelin-shaped barracuda. The big draw, though, was the resident spinner dolphins – so-called because they jump clear of the water in acrobatic spirals – that turn up in their hundreds on a daily basis. You just can't argue with wild dolphins en masse: some would insist they're worth the hefty price of admission to Noronha alone.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgXF615d2fL0oFMKmyHuwXPVl9wmr7IwkW4F2BIpYZhw83fh0W4_MKuJlmq1XSY-0z_3EpNiZXIqcyYG_mQlUVHkm_PQHhto11mmv659IWDy1mE_R8ZqmN1tEx4Y293gcAAF4hH_66s01/s1600/Fernando-de-Noronha-Brazil+-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgXF615d2fL0oFMKmyHuwXPVl9wmr7IwkW4F2BIpYZhw83fh0W4_MKuJlmq1XSY-0z_3EpNiZXIqcyYG_mQlUVHkm_PQHhto11mmv659IWDy1mE_R8ZqmN1tEx4Y293gcAAF4hH_66s01/s1600/Fernando-de-Noronha-Brazil+-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> We could neither confirm nor deny the rumoured friendliness of the local sharks – the lemon shark, nurse shark and Caribbean reef shark are the most common – because we didn't see any, but we can state that there have been no reported attacks (touch wood). In marked contrast to the mainland coast near Recife, where environmental disruption has provoked a dramatic rise in fatal shark encounters, the protected marine eco-system around Noronha appears to offer the creatures all the sustenance they require.</div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> Other nature-based highlights included the walking route to Baia do Sancho, which involves negotiating two ladders on a sheer cliff-face and feels moderately adventurous, until you realise that it's regularly tackled by old ladies in flip-flops; and a lunch of freshly caught barracuda at Bar do Meio on the Praia do Meio, frigate birds circling overhead. Away from the beaches, the ruins of a prison offers a hint of life on Noronha before the modern tourist era. Gypsies (in 1739) and capoeira fighters (in 1890) were incarcerated there, unaware that their living hell would one day morph into a high-end eco-destination.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgauuU7iRAin6CHzrutQobe7OTRww8TnVsXfqLXnu6gt-Yf5RoVb74Q5UGfOnahkUEsJeyTAKKvmIpYE-fcMI24EZw_VTMKZgM_lnKRHYSp6WySYo14mMpX_RMGjSuicIBOywEE-0j9zvAm/s1600/1-beaches-Fernando-de-Noronha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgauuU7iRAin6CHzrutQobe7OTRww8TnVsXfqLXnu6gt-Yf5RoVb74Q5UGfOnahkUEsJeyTAKKvmIpYE-fcMI24EZw_VTMKZgM_lnKRHYSp6WySYo14mMpX_RMGjSuicIBOywEE-0j9zvAm/s1600/1-beaches-Fernando-de-Noronha.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.987144470214844px; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;"> Fish night back at the Pousada do Vale – during which the hand-delivered catch is wrapped in banana leaves and grilled – is free for guests on Thursdays. The hotel's two-storey "bungalows" have balconies with hammocks, and it was in one of them that we weighed up our thoughts on the island. Had Noronha lived up to the hype? No question about it, the place is gorgeous – whatever nature had taken away by sending deluges of Atlantic rain and vindictive insects, it had given back in spades with stunning marine life, dramatic rock formations and priceless sunsets. But there was still the sneaking suspicion that Fernando de Noronha has something of an identity crisis. By selling itself as both a strictly patrolled eco-paradise and a dream destination for the well-off – where bicycles are out-muscled by petrol-chugging buggies, and much of the food is flown in – the island comes across as confused. The price-tag for a holiday there is likely to deter many, but for honeymooning scuba divers who aren't short of a bob or two, Fernando de Noronha is a live contender.</div> </div>

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