A taxi directly from the airport to Trancoso costs around 150,00 Reais (€55). A taxi to the ferry (Balsa) in Porto Seguro around 20.00 Reais (€8).
In both cases you will have to pass Rio Buranhém by ferry for about 6 reais (€2) to take a bus (ônibus) (viação "Águia Azul" - see timetable) or a van to Trancoso for 5 reais (€2).
Casa da Vanessa is situated near the beginning of Rua Principal and many vans and busses pass.
At Rua Principal are several busstops. If your are by bus, get off just after Posto da Saude (First Aid) at the beginning of Rua Principal. Take Estrada dos Macacos at your left 50m. After 100m you will find the villas at your left.
PRICE TICKET BALSA ->TRANCOSO and TRANCOSO -> BALSA R$ 5,00
Timetable Balsa to Trancoso
7:00 - 08:10 - 09:00 - 09:40 - 10:30 -11:00 -11:30 -12:10- 13:20 - 14:30 - 15:30 - 16:00 - 17:00 - 18:00 - 19:00 - 20:00
Timetable Trancoso to Balsa (Starting near quadrado,several stop at Rua Principal)
06:15 - 07:10 - 08:00 - 08:30 - 09:10 - 10:00 - 11:00 - 12:00 - 13:10 - 14:00 - 14:30 - 15:00 - 16:00 - 17:00 - 17:10 - 17:30 - 18:30 - 19:30
Timetable Trancoso to Caraíva
08.00 and 17.00
Distance to Caraíva is 36 km
Águia Azul
Adress: Rua São Sebastião, s/nº.
CEP (Postcode): 45.810.000
Tel: (73) 3668.1347
TRANCOSO
It’s worth arriving in Trancoso, a chic little town on the north-east Brazilian coast about 300 miles south of Salvador, at night-time. A preservation order means the Quadrado, the broad village green that makes up the town’s historic centre, has almost no outdoor electric light. Instead, after sunset, the boutique bars, shops and restaurants that now occupy most of the one-storey artisans’ houses on either side of the grass put out gently flickering coloured candles on their tables and window sills, giving the place a wonderfully fairy-tale feel. Above you a carpet of stars shines down and, perched on top of the cliffs near to where the Portuguese first landed in Brazil 500 years ago, a simple, slightly dilapidated church basks, with just the slightest ecclesiastical aloofness, in its (permitted) electric floodlighting. Starting at the bottom of the cliff, the sand stretches for hundreds of kilometres in either direction and, however busy the town seems to be, you can pretty soon find a quiet spot to yourself. Trancoso is a small historic, Indian village with a serene atmosphere, nice restaurants, shops and lounge bars. It is mentioned as a transcendant place and compared with Ibiza, Goa and Bali. The houses on the Quadrado have, as much as possible, been kept in their original form. With so much outdoor beauty, it's not surprising that in Trancoso you spend very little time indoors ... even when you are indoors.
Softly, softly under a Brazilian sky. By David Baker. Published: November 25 2005, Financial Times.
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