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Morro de São Paulo
Bahia State
- Brazil
Going to Morro de São Paulo (Automatic translation, under review)
I go to start the story counting the odisséia that was my trip of gone the Mount of São Paulo. It was in the city of Arraial D'Ajuda, only the some kilometers of Mount, and perhaps therefore I minimized the question of the transfer and decided to decide already being in Brazil (instead of having planned before).
The first problem with that I came across myself is that alone a bus company took me of Safe Port (bordering city with Arraial D'Ajuda) until Valença (continental and next city the Mount, that is an island). This only company has an only type of service, that does not include nor conditioned air nor bathroom, and what it is very worse, it is the bus that in Argentina we call "lechero", that is, that it carries through interminable stops.
When discarding this possibility I asked the cost of a flight. The options were to go Salvador or in charter the Mount direct, both options absolutely are of my budget.
I thought about renting an car and delivering in the city of Valença, but I did not find no company who allowed this modality.
The last option that I considered was to go in taxi, but the cost was also very high, almost the same that to go in airplane.
Tired to lose my precious time of vacation searching prices, I decided to travel in the such bus.
That interminable day started in Arraial D'Ajuda. After taking coffee of the morning well early, it came the person who rented an car to me to take me until the road of Safe Port. To arrive the destination we walk one 15/20 minutes for Arraial until arriving in the point where if it takes a raft to cross the Safe Port. There we walk plus one 15 minutes until arriving at the road.
The bus was not nothing luxurious, but at least he was worthy, and this renewed my hopes with respect to the trip that waited me. However, this hope was verwhelmed quickly when we start the trip.
For incredible that it seems, the bus left the road and 200 meters more in front already made first stop so that somebody went up... and the this if it repeated of interminable form during all the trip! We more than did not walk 15 or 20 minutes that already stopped to catch passengers. A trip of this type (about 400 km), that in Argentina it does not take 5 hours of bus more than, with the service of bus of Brazil delayed 9 hours!
After this experience and of the trip that I also carried through in bus the Cove Dos Reis, I arrived at the conclusion of that the service of bus in Brazil is very inferior to that if it gives in Argentina (I say very inferior to be generous). This if must in part to the segment to which the service is directed. In Argentina the middle class travels of bus and therefore it requires a less decent service more or. In Brazil the middle class travels of car or airplane, and from there the lack of interest of the companies.
Already resigned to the torture of that trip, it had not taken conscience of that the occurrence was not nothing to the side of that still it waited me.
It had read before travelling that the last motor boats that go of Valença the Mount of São Paulo leave to 17h. This hour started if to approach and nothing to arrive at the destination. Already despaired, I was to speak with the driver and it it said me that we had that to have fond 16h15 the Valença and that calculated that at 17h we would arrive. E this was accurately what it occurred. I went down of the bus, with a taxi I ran until the port and badly it left the taxi appeared somebody to offer a trip in a fast motor boat, offers clearly that I accepted immediately.
Already on the motor boat I started to relax me, thinking that everything had past, lost me in this thought when they had started to fall the first drops... that later if they had become one strong rain. Happily in we do not wet them, but I started to worry me about what it went to happen when we arrived at the destination.
In the motor boat one 7 people went. She had a couple that she seemed not to say a word of Portuguese and with much difficulty if they understood with the driver. I thought: "These foreigners are fritos. At least I and my wife we say Portuguese ".
When we were in approaching the Mount, the driver of the motor boat asked itself where beach was our hotel and I answered that in the fourth beach. The face (a without-shame that it deserved to be Argentine of so lying) if offered stops in more taking them until the fourth beach for some Reals. I accepted without thinking two times, after that long day.
After leaving everybody in the center of Mount, we start the trip for the fourth beach. Already at this moment it rained very and the sea was brave. We walk one minutes and there the face said that it did not go to be able in taking them until the fourth beach because the sea was with much tide and that it did not go to be able to stop with the motor boat in the beach (I thought: "Mmmmm, more problems to the sight"). Exactly thus, it offered itself in taking them until the third beach and said that there he passed a "tractor" that went to come in searching them (later I go to explain with details this way of transport).
Without another option, in we direct them to the third beach, we arrive and for my surprise mísero did not have nor one pier. Conclusion: we had that in taking off them, going down of the motor boat with the feet in the water and to place the luggages in the head it stops in protecting them of the other water that fell of the sky.
The place where the face in left them was type an inn, and there very we were well received. Great it was my surprise when the manager of the inn said that the tractor already did not pass more for the third beach, because it was forbidden.
The face of the motor boat, in the best style "Argentine politician" wanted to go even so from there how much before and was this same what it made, passing the pineapple to the recepcionista of the hotel, that was very prestativo with people.
The proposal was to call a taxi and to go until the second beach to catch the tractor there. My surprise was great when vi that the taxi stand-of-hand was two faces with two that said "TAXI". This exactly, in the island the taxis are stand-of-hand, cars do not exist and the only one half of transport is tractors that drag a species of "trenzinho of the joy" and that they have predefined schedules.
After walking for the third beach to arrive at second, under rain and with the two taxistas friends, we arrive at the tractor yearned for one.
Vocês couple of "foreigners" who had been in the motor boat with people, total dry and happy and we absolutely marshy and bare-footed do not imagine my face of astonishment when vi inside of the tractor the same. Later it knew that this couple was a Frenchman and a Italian who went to lodge themselves in the same hotel that people.
That day one of longest was and caused an accident of all my life. It was really a worthy experience of a film of Woody Allen, with trip of car, raft, bus, motor boat, "taxi" and tractor. At least to arrive in the hotel and being received with tea and biscuits in the room and to take a good bath of hidromassagem, were seemed to have fond of the paradise.
Brazilian Ibiza:
Mount of São Paulo is a sufficiently particular place and before travelling I listened to wonders on the city. It is an island that costumava to be visited by hippies and that after great boom commercial started to be visited by tourist of the entire world, mainly of the Europe.
Although the city is very colorful, I really found that the beaches were great thing and the fact of not being able to dislocate me from car limits a little the activities. As I commented, in the island the use of cars is not allowed and the only one half of transport is the tractor.
The gastronômicas options are not many and the center is of simple and gone astray style. The streets are of sand to preserve the wasteland image, but unhappyly the ugly handles of electricity finish entorpecendo the landscape.
I do not have much to say of Mount. The city is sufficiently pleasant, but not enough it. I knew places with a very superior nature in Brazil and without having that to go until the island. In the truth, as this trip was made together with the one of d'Ajuda Arraial was impossible to não.fazer the comparison. Definitively I am with Arraial and Trancoso, for the natural beauty and the biggest diversity of options.
Mount intends to be an exclusive and bohemian place, what it supports with high prices and hippies, not much more of that this.
Weather: The climate in August is not the ideal. In general, every day it rained of morning and to the afternoon it improved.
Traveler's nightmare: The prices. Everything is sufficiently expensive, in great measure favours to the European tourism and not to the product quality in itself.
Full of it is drugged, is the paradise of the nostalgic ones of years 70.
The stroll of tractor in principle can seem colorful, but later if it becomes sufficiently tedious. He is very bothering, a little unsafe and the project of schedules for the dawn is péssimo. If you it will be in a moved away beach does not exist another remedy of that to go with the tractor and if you to lose what she leaves to the 1 the dawn, have that to wait for the one of the 4. My advice is to be in the second or third beach, to be able to go walking to the center.
Things you should not miss: It does not leave to around give a return in motor boat of the Tinharé island. They leave the port and is more or less interesting, mainly when they stop to make snorkel.
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