The Fazenda Saquarema is located just 80km north of the city of Rio, inside the beautiful lagoon region. Your hosts are a couple of German immigrants, known for their hospitality and top service. They also have two children.
The rooms of our farm hotel are cozy and comfortable. Each has its own shower-room, minibar and direct access to the covered veranda.
There is also a pool, a sauna and, thanks to the owners' green thumb, a beautiful miniature botanical garden. Surrounded by the Atlantic rainforest, you will ride on trails that cut through banana and mango plantations as well as cattle farms, lagoons and beaches.
The Brazilian Mangalarga Marchador horse was bred in as a cross between a Royal Alter Stallion and native mares of Spanish Jennet and Barb blood, known for their fast but smooth paces. At first they were known as Sublime horses. Now they are seen as the National Horse of Brazil, as well as being one of the most popular and ubiquitous breeds in South America as a whole.
Intelligent, regal, alert and of incredible power and endurance, they are renowned for their marchas, or gaits. The marcha picada is a lateral and very smooth movement, while the marcha batida is a diagonal four beat gait that appears to the naked eye to be a trot, yet has very little vertical movement and so is lso extremely smooth.
