Small town on the river
Trip Start
Sep 19, 2009
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Trip End
May 19, 2010
Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The journey was beautiful, with scenery both inland and by the beach. However, it was very hot on the bus (no aircon) and more than a little frustrating that we spent the last four hours of the journey within about 30 miles of our destination – going from village to village en route. We sensed not many tourists must do this route (can see why!) by the fact we spent the whole journey with little kids staring at us, fascinated! The best part of the journey for me was when we turned off the road & onto the beach; a huge bus driving down a beach to drop off something at one of the passengers houses, interrupting many locals playing football, very surreal!! We finally arrived in Penedo at 7pm, and headed in a taxi on the LPs advice to a hostel nearby, once again to find we were the only people staying there… Relieved to see it was cheap (only 50 reals a night), lovely and big, we showered and headed out to see the town and to enjoy a lovely meal by the river.
Sadly we only had 11 hours in this town, due to our Salvador bound bus the next morning leaving at 6am. Despite this, we felt we got a decent feel for the place, very pretty with colourful houses, and all set overlooking the river and cobbled streets. We did however have an unsettling night , as we were both woken by something hitting our window and voices outside. Not wanting to bring attention to our room (fully aware we were probably the only foreign tourists in the town), we remained quiet and fortunately were only woken again by a cat screaming a couple of hours later. Walking to the bus station at 5.30am the next morning, it all felt completely safe again. In need of a few more hours of shut eye, we settled into our seats for the 4 hour journey to the city of Aracaju, and our connecting bus to Salvador.
