Already, on the drive from the airport, through the reserve of rainforest, lush and green for hundreds of miles, with drops to deserted ocean below, I felt it: a sudden descent of tranquility. I was now in Brazil, en route to Itacaré on the Bahian coast, where I would spend two weeks surfing with the EasyDrop school, celebrated, for over a dozen years, for having one of the best surf programs in the world. It's four hours of intense surf instruction a day, and this does not count the walks through the jungle, past a rush of a waterfall, to get to one beach (Engenhoca) or the boat ride across the river to get to another (Pontal). Owned by a German team in Europe, it is run and managed by a...
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