Jericoacoara: wind and emotions

A beautiful story

I arrived in Jeri in a starry night. We crossed the dunes with the off-road " Bandeirantes " 4x4, it was around midnight and the almost full moon was lighting up the dunes of sand and we seemed heaven's forms.
An astonishing scenery. Never happened to me such a thing.

The morning after, the first gusts of wind piercing the walls intentionally widened for naturally refrigerating the rooms, called us almost to let us know that the day had to start. I opened the window , and another time an unbelievable view, as a dreamt picture but unreal, introduced itself with great naturalness, really beautiful, engraved, drew for years and years by nature's action.

A sensation of oneness, a felt respect for the exercise of essences linked to the perfection that mother nature had wanted there.

Jeri left me wordless and breathless, also before discovering the beauties and "technical" attractions: sea, waves, wind and downwind (to believe it, you have to try!). Jeri, as a love at first sight, entered in my heart in a formidable instant.

It was 1997, Morgana, my wife, had been there the first time in 1982 on a little donkey, received by native fishermen as a blonde angel, entertained in their houses, with naturalness, all with naturalness, as the nature tries generously to teach us. She returned there because of the love she felt for me, thinking that I would surely like the place, but with the fear to find it lost because of the arrival of the great tourism and business.

She, careful observer, read me in my intimate.
An engraved heaven. The friend Fabio and I entered in water with a 4.5 and 79 liters. Waves, wind, warm water, the dunes the sun caressing the sea, the sunset, the nature, the people climbing the dune to watch the sunset, the capoeira.

Big waves out there, the ocean, without dangers, without risks, a terrible wind, constant, up to the magnificent sunset. An unforgettable symphony. I reentered from that sailed, I intensely looked Fabio and I said "Here we will do something, is too much beautiful!"

We inaugurated Vila Kalango in 1999. Three friends, 3 windsurfers, Ottavio, Fabio and the undersigned. In one sense for game, in the other for the passion for an original place, with the hope in our heart, to respect it, to understand it and to love it for a lot of time and above all, to keep on taking wind and waves...

10 years have almost passed.
Vila Kalango is there, beautiful, grown, complete. 24 rooms, a privileged sight of Jeri, of the dune, of the ocean.

The friendship continues, others started to feel the same passion and entered to belong to the family: Paolo, Giordano, the same spirit, love the nature, respect it, offer to people who can and want discover it the possibility to understand it and the chance to be there, appreciating it with comfort and friendship, but without assaulting it.

Lot of sport, lot of wind, lot of sea, lot of peace, a Nature's therapy.

Jeri is not lost, thanks also to us, the first sails and the first windsurfs arrived with us, and Jeri, instead of changing or losing its soul as a common tourist product, succeeds in maintaining its originality. Very difficult for those who love it so much, but doesn't exist a place like this, the world is very beautiful, exist a lot of marvellous places, thank God they are many. Jeri makes part of them, you can like it ior not, but Jeri is unique and different at all , for this reaso is worth visiting.

Five years ago Rancho do Peixe arrived. The idea came from the downwind, the possibility to sail 12 km in downwind, without worrying about going up against the wind, surfing ocean's waves from the ocean, without waiting them on the shore. Be able to venture in the middle of the sea without risks, arriving in the beautiful Jeri, after having crossed a piece of ocean, after having met the Pedra Furada, the Praia of Malhada, being able to enter Jeri's waves at the sunset, after a sailed like this.

The ground at Preà (the name of the beach and village of fishermen) was generous. Other friends took part in the dream, and Rancho was born: 16 very generous (80 mqs) bungalows, a 25 ms swimming pool, a cafe, a rental for windsurfing equipments and a restaurant. Many "coqueiros" and the music of the nature, wind, sea, palms and stop. That's all.

Then Kitesurf arrived. The Rancho became to be the sanctuary of Kite: constant wind, no dangers, lot of space and one of the best school in the world. Four intense days of lesson, and then you go and return with the tamed kite. Another heaven, more solitary and calm, today that Jeri is grown, Rancho is for the one who wants to stay even more calm.

And this is in few words a beautiful story, the story of a dream that came true. Come to stay with us!

Marco

If you love aquatic sports, wind and sun and emotions on the sea, at Jeri's beach you will find a therapy of the nature, relax, friendship, a lot of space for windsurfing and kitesurfing without risks on your way.

Contact us to Vila Kalango or to Rancho do Peixe!