Morro de São Paulo - three days of tropical islands

Two days Salvador were definetly enough for us. So we practically ran away. Taking the ferry to Bom despacho (40 min), then the bus to Valenca (2h) and then a boat (40 min) to Morro de Sao Paulo. This is a little village on an island in front of Bahia. No cars, a lot of beach, sun, coconut-water, and need for sunprotector... what a great change.

Of course, Morro also has its church. And they are in urgent need for reformation. You seee the already repainted side-altar. The one in the middle still needs some work. Besides that, a really nice and tranquil church, for a change not filled up to the roof with gold.

Strolling along the bach we passed this tourist group. They painted each other with the mud drippng from the stone behind them. On the little foto you see how a afro-brazilian looks like when the mud dries. Almost spooky.
Anyway, one of the guys told us, that the mud was really good for our skin. We politely decided not to join the group. In my travel-book they tell s.th about radio-active materials on the coast.



Probably Morro could be considered a troplical island? I mean, it is mid-winter here and we still enjoyed temperatures around 30 degrees and didn't dare to leave the house without sun-protector. Some more evidence: papagayos in front of the supermarket, big insects on our way and monkeys in the hotel's front yard.

Another impression of the beach.

And then we passed by this cute little house. OK, take the cute, forget the little. I guess a big family could be happy here. We didn't enter the property, but if anyone of you is interested to rent the house for your summerholiday, the phonenumer is in the photo.