Kiteboarding / Stand up paddleboarding

Brazil- land of a kiters true dream, Nuking wind, great food , great nightlife, great girls, great beaches, great surf, great down winders the list goes on.

The lowdown.

Fly into Fortaleza either from Lisbon or Amsterdam – TAP will allow more baggage allowance for all your new kiting toys – you’ll wish you’d brought them all !

Taxi to Cumbuco approx 30 mins cost £15

Plenty of places to stay – try Hotel ‘Santa Fe’ out of town a little but right over the road from the beach.
By all means stay in Cumbuco town itself but the kiting is busy and the nights long- I suppose it depends what your there for.

From Cumbuco you can decide to chill and kite right out front or explore the coastline down to Caipe lagoon around 2.5 miles downwind of Cumbuco – where you can usually pick up a beach buggy ride back up the beach to Cumbuco.

If there is a swell running there are usually some fun conditions on the way down and then nail that freestyle trick in butter slick but brown water of Caipe.

If your a real wave addict then a further 2-3 miles down the coast is Pacem Harbour
Good wave riding conditions with flat water sections in between.
From here its Town after sleepy town with some awesome spots for wave junkies and freestyle monsters and all downwind.
The riding potential is un-real and the wind weather is perfect

The Ultimate kite downwinder – Cumbuco to Prea

As you travel down the coast main ports of call should be :

Caipe lagoon
Taiba lagoon
Paracuru
Lagoinha
Mundau
Baleia
Prea
Jericoacoara

However in between these spots there are some awesome spots which I will leave un- named for you to discover yourself.

If you love your kiting- You have got to go to BRAZIL !

Kiteboarding has never been so popular with schools all across the U.K offering taster lessons all the way up to zero to hero courses to get you boosting across the water on a kiteboard.
Kiteboarding/ kitesurfing lessons here are unique in that the Gower peninsula is surrounded by beaches so the riding potential is amazing and near enough any wind direction is covered.
Wave riding conditions, flat water lagoons and inlets make it a perfect place to learn or progress in this exciting sport.
During our kite surfing lessons at Gower kite Riders we choose to use North kiteboarding equipment.
The new North evo kites are proving great at getting people hooked into the sport and helping them progress confidently and safely.