flamengo beach

If you like to go to a beach where you can get big waves, so this is the right beach to go. This beach is the favourite of surfing. Just be careful with your stuff. There is a lot of pick pockets around the area.

Going to Flamengo is a nice way to spend the day. About 45 minutes from Vitória (about a R$85/US$35 taxi ride) without traffic, you will find this extremely nice, wide, and relatively uncrowded beach. Have the taxi take you to Barraca do Loro, at Praia de Aleluia and rent some chairs and umbrellas from them. Very safe -- I have no idea what the poster claiming its dangerous is talking about. Further north you will find stone reefs and tide pools which are nice for kids. Loro also has a nice restaurant and beach club, with good food and facilities.

Quite far from the city center, but the beach is nice with crystal clear water. Good offer of restaurants there with typical local food.

One needs remember that ocean can take you back, Ussualy at 3 o'clock. Nice beach not so crammed with people.

The crowd is Salvador are much less sophisticated than rio. We were welcomed I the beach to play football along with the locals. It was awesome. Made some buddies too. The beach is very clean and the small shacks temporarily set up sell beers. But they are costly, maybe due to World Cup season. At end of beach is a wonderful spot where you can enjoy a great sunrise.

Flamengo Beach has become one of the most dangerous places in Salvador; actually in Brazil! I know it better than good; lived nearby. I can just warn you to go there. In Stella Maris; part of the beach; they kill people every day. Young students, priests, tourists; whatever. Flamengo has become one of the worst parts of Salvador. Although whole Salvador has become one of the worst places in the world with a murder rate well above civil war standards. Flamengo beach beats it. It is oe of the worst places in Brazil. Be aware; you my pay a high price!

A very nice place for enjoying one of the cleanest parts of Salvador shore. Nice places for surfing and eating. Some few parts present natural swimming pools, which can receive children safely.

This beach is very very clean and the sand is fantastic with little sharp objects and rocks. There are a lot of major rocks that are on the shoreline and out on the beach. In July, the waves were over my head if I went out more that 20 feet (6 feet tall). So be careful, but great for body surfing.

nice sand here, probably the cleanest of the Salvador beaches but still not that brilliant, the best I found was Barra because of the location and waves.

Fantastic local snack food and fantastic caparinjas....Pity that there was a little down pour which meant we could not go down to the beach, but it looked like a great swimming beach. Staff at Pipa were great.

We went to Flamengo Beach during the World Cup. The Beach is really nice and has a good restaurant near by. You can go swimming and enjoy the sun. After lunch we went for a walk along the beach to the south. It was the same time as the Brasilian Match, and nobody was left on the beach. Suddenlly a guy walked towards us and wanted to grab our bags. Finally he stole our stuff. So be careful! Don't go there when there are no people!!!! It is only save when there are a lot of people.

We went there several times and always stayed at the 'Barraca do Louro' it has great service (better in week days) and on one side there are beds on wooden platforms covered like a 4 pools bed that are quite fun to have for some extra money! We loved the atmosphere of these enchanting place! We felt safe at all times and had no problems living our beach things the bed and going down to a walk or a dive in the sea! The security is quite visible but never intrusive.

We only discovered this beach at the end of our stay but wished we had gone there more as it was much nicer than the other beaches. Quite pricey if you want to eat/ drink at the beach bars, but there was a really nice cheap little self service one road off the beach. Takes a while to get there but worth it

It takes an hour by bus from Salvador, and those buses only go once an hour (if you're lucky, maybe twice), so it took a while to get there. However it was a great surprise, as this area was really up-market, a very large beach with lots of space. >The waves were pretty high, so it is not the best for swimming far, or snorkling. It seems clean although the waves and sand made visibility in the water poor.

This great beach is located north of Salvador's city centre, close to Itapua. For sure it is far more better than the city centre beached; clean, spacious, nice people and good restaurants.