I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler, episode 733.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about turtles and scuba diving, beaches and buggies,

tropics and spinner dolphins as we go to and Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Brazil. I'd like to welcome to the show Nina from the Globetrotting accountant.com who is a patron of

amateur traveler and has come to talk to us about Fernando de Norrononia in Brazil.

Nino, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

It's so good to be here.

And then why don't we just correct whatever it was that I just said and say what really we're talking about today.

I say it's Fernandonia.

Excellent and where is this if we put this on a map in Brazil?

Yeah, so Fernandennanjanodoya is a island off the coast of northeast Brazil.

Okay. So it is really not that far from the United States. It's about a six hour plane ride.

So it's actually pretty close to Miami actually.

And why would someone go to Fernando?

Well, Fernando de no.

Fernando de no one of the last places in the world that I feel is truly off the beaten track. They limit their tourism. It's a highly protected area of Brazil.

And they limit their tourism to 520 tourists a day.

And so when you're there, you're in this idyllic beach

paradise, and it feels like your own personal private island because there's no one else there basically.

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