We took a two hour catamaran ride from Salvador to the island of Tinhare and the small town of Morro de Sao Paulo perched over the Atlantic Ocean. I read that there were no paved roads in MSP. In fact there were only two sand roads in town, one of which lead out to four beaches, appropriately named, First Beach, Second Beach, etc. Before we even left the boat men came aboard trying to grab our bags, offering us a taxi. I thought that odd because there were no roads, so how were there taxis? Turns out, “taxis” were nothing more than wheelbarrows. They push along your luggage and take you to your hotel (on our way off the island we saw the true “taxi” an old woman with few teeth being wheeled inside the wheelbarrow,
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