A short boat trip outside of Angra is an island called Ilha Grande - Large Island. This island is relatively large with only a few villages and no cars, except for police cars. Instead there are a lot of nice beaches, beautiful nature and forests with cool paths through them. We stayed in a place called Abraao which is a really relaxed village without any cars; people either walk or cycle everywhere. There is a small police station, but it seems that there is almost no crime since people don't lock their bikes and sometimes not even their houses. This is a huge contrast to the big walls with barbed wire surrounding every building in the cities. OK, the villages are so small that you couldn't hide anything if you stole it, but it felt really safe (at least for Brazil).
You can see the police station in the picture above. The sign in front of it says:
"Educate the children and you will not need to punish men" (Pythagoras (!))
It seems like they have started to understand this in Brazil and most things are improving, but they still have a long way to go .
Most people use their boats if they want to go between the villages. It is not to far to go by bike on the paths, but they are really made for walking. These paths also go to all the beaches, so we decided to try them. We arrived in the middle of the day, so we only went to some places close by.
Some of the trees here were amazing. The ones above and below are quite big with funny looking trunks and grow on top of stones!
A small church in Abraao.
This beach is called Praia Preta - Black Beach - since the sand on the beach is all black due to some minerals.
An old aqueduct.
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