Neighbourhood highlights
The house is next to the Rio Pium resort, with a lot of excitement on the river beach, and kiosks with good fried fish. The street also gives access to the Vale Encantado trail with its açai plantations. Cotovelo Beach is 1 km away and the world's largest cashew tree is 5 km away. 8 km from Ponta Negra.
The community of Pium, located between Natal and the municipalities of Parnamirim and Nísia Floresta, has as its postcard a fruit and vegetable market that remains throughout the year and intensifies during the high season, when the beaches of the South Potiguar coast receive a multitude of visitors. The region also brings together several craft workshops that use varied typologies, such as papier-mâché, embroidery, bobbin lace, recycled paper, furniture restoration, woodcutting, mosaic and bamboo, vine and banana tree fibers. It also concentrates restaurants, creperies, tapiocaria, inns, places for alternative therapies, and offers several outdoor activities, such as horseback riding, kayaking, ecological trails and adventure tourism. All included in the Caminhos de Pium project.
SOME OF THE PLACES TO DISCOVER
They are very diverse enterprises and range from a rustic resort that offers Mediterranean cuisine to a holistic space that combines accommodation with healing therapy in the shaman ritual, from the orchidarium where you can have tea and learn more about Japanese cuisine to the rustic furniture store artistically stylized, from the bistro coffee with wood stove to the authentic acarejé from Bahia, from the kayak or quadricycle ride to the ride in the lagoon. Bamboo massages, açaí seed pool, sculpture recovery work, Tyrolean, art workshops and ecological trails are other attractions found in the Pium River Valley.
Tourists can also participate in the afternoons with authentic forró or enjoy the presentations of the Auta de Luz group, which promotes an experience of self-discovery and well-being, sharing the transcendental mysteries of sacred poetry and mandala painting.
Check out the creativity and ingenuity of bamboo art or the work of artisans who exhibit their products in front of the mothers' club.
The cuisine is an attraction in itself. There are flavors that merge in those bands. Crepes, acarajé, Mediterranean and Swiss cuisine, in addition to the regionalism of cashew carpaccio, seriguela, mangosteen jam, jambo jam, cherry tomato with tilapia, green coconut candy, beet bread, pumpkin candy, orchid liqueur and cheese molasses in honey from the mill. These are some of the delicacies offered to those who visit the area.
EXPECTATIONS
This is the case of the couple Gelza Matsunae and Kemji Matsunae, immigrants who settled in Pium and founded the Japanese colony there in 1954. Today, the couple has an orchidarium with more than 200 species ready to receive groups of people who wish to have tea, enjoy an orchid liqueur or learn more about Japanese cuisine and culture during workshops given by the couple. "This project is of paramount importance to those who do business here. I would say that we are rediscovering the ways of Pium. It is one of the ways to experience and value our culture," says Gelza Matsunae, better known as Dona Gelza.
Italian Silvio Ravagnani also expects to increase the number of guests arriving at the establishment, an ecological resort in a rustic chalet style that preserves part of the native vegetation of the place. The proposal is to offer accommodation to those looking for tranquility and greater contact with nature. "Our idea is to offer spa services in the future," plans the Italian, who is already thinking about the flow of international tourists. Today, this funding is made only among friends of the entrepreneur visiting Brazil.
Carlos Marx and Liz Barros are interested in offering a Zen guide for tourists, with Espaço Flor de Liz. The place proposes to offer accommodation for up to 12 people in search of holistic experiences to meditate or just learn more about this philosophical line. The space is setting up two-hour shamanic healing rituals with carpets by the river with a shaman so that the visitor understands more about biodance and introduction to yoga. "We want to feel and verify the demands. We can also expand and implement an Afro-Brazilian ritual with atabaque percussion without the mediumistic part", projects Carlos Marx.
The community of Pium, located between Natal and the municipalities of Parnamirim and Nísia Floresta, has as its postcard a fruit and vegetable fair that remains throughout the year and intensifies during the high season, when the beaches of the South Potiguar coast receive a multitude of visitors. The region also brings together several craft workshops that use varied typologies, such as papier-mâché, embroidery, bobbin lace, recycled paper, furniture restoration, woodcut, mosaic and bamboo, vine and banana tree fibers. It also concentrates restaurants, creperies, tapiocarias, inns, places for alternative therapies, and offers several outdoor activities, such as horseback riding, kayaking, ecological trails, and adventure tourism. All included in the Caminhos de Pium project.
