Tuesday, 22 February 2005

Maragogipe & Cachoeira


Maragogipe is a very small fishing village situated on the other side of Baia de Toros dos Santos up the Rio Paraguaçu.

The trip up the river was our first experience of winding our way up a narrow passage however, it presented no problems and was quite a change from the open waters of the ocean.

Maragogipe is charming and picturesque and made us feel as though we'd stepped back a hundred years. The popular mode of transport is still the donkey or horse or, in some cases, cattle.

We found a terrific market selling the best variety of vegetables we’d seen in a long time but have to confess that the meat market left a tad to be desired.

To get a better feel of the countryside, we took a local bus up to the town of Cachoeira, another delightful village where tourism is all but unheard of.

Carnival hadn’t bypassed these little out-of-the-way villages completely but sufficiently to render them so peaceful in comparison to Salvador. We thoroughly enjoyed wandering around these two towns, ‘chatting’ to the locals and enjoying the ice cold beers that are available every step of the way.


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