The next morning we went to the Recife "Rodoviaria" to catch a bus to Natal. Rodoviarias are the main bus terminals for each city and they have frequent departures to all the major cities. All in all traveling by bus is very easy and efficient if staying in a region; definitely as easy as flying. The trip to Natal was about 4 hours. The nice thing about traveling by bus is you get to see the country side. Between Recife and Natal all you see is miles and miles of sugar cane on rolling hills. Its green and lush. We arrived in Natal with no reservations and had a taxi driver recommend a place to stay. He did well in taking us to a small but clean place on the waterfront in the tourist area of Natal.
Natal is primarily an European Tourist destination. As a result, nothing other than typical tourist traps, street vendors hustling their goods and glitzy things to get you to spend money. The most interesting thing we did was attend a cultural performance celebrating the all the native dances of the north east region of Brazil. The evening was well done, professional and very 
entertaining. Natal is also known for its large sand dunes along the coast. We took a buggy (boogy) ride into the dunes and stopped at the local "camel" trap.
One of the most memorable moments of Natal was early Sunday morning (around 4:30) I was woke by loud music playing in the street. I went out to the balcony
to see what was going on. A couple had backed their car up to the side walk and was playing latin dance music and they were dancing on the sidewalk as daylight was breaking. They were beautiful dancers and it obvious they were having a wonderful time dancing just before the sunrise. As soon as the sun 
broke over the hill, they stopped dancing embraced and kissed. It was truly something special to observe. The dancers weren't the only ones out before sunrise. There were many others walking on the beach; families with kids, single individuals and groups all enjoying the beautiful morning.
Natal is primarily an European Tourist destination. As a result, nothing other than typical tourist traps, street vendors hustling their goods and glitzy things to get you to spend money. The most interesting thing we did was attend a cultural performance celebrating the all the native dances of the north east region of Brazil. The evening was well done, professional and very 
entertaining. Natal is also known for its large sand dunes along the coast. We took a buggy (boogy) ride into the dunes and stopped at the local "camel" trap.One of the most memorable moments of Natal was early Sunday morning (around 4:30) I was woke by loud music playing in the street. I went out to the balcony
to see what was going on. A couple had backed their car up to the side walk and was playing latin dance music and they were dancing on the sidewalk as daylight was breaking. They were beautiful dancers and it obvious they were having a wonderful time dancing just before the sunrise. As soon as the sun 
broke over the hill, they stopped dancing embraced and kissed. It was truly something special to observe. The dancers weren't the only ones out before sunrise. There were many others walking on the beach; families with kids, single individuals and groups all enjoying the beautiful morning.The next day we headed to Natal's rodiavaria (bus station) and took a 8 hr bus ride to Fortaleza.
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