Carfree community in Northern Brazil
I'm on a touristic village called Algodoal, an island in northerth Brazil in the state of Para.
To access the island, one must take a boat from neighboring town of Marudá, where I parked my vehicle for the week.
Cars and motored vehicles are forbidden in Algodoal, the only allowed transportation is bicycle, feet and horse carriage (2 people at a time).
The community has a shared truck and 2 ATVs that they pool for carrying heavy loads to make sure horses are not used for those heavy carriages.
Still, nothing stopped the community to develop tourism and seasonal occupancy. Mansonry construction still happen. There's still shops full of wares. The streets have grass, sand and vegetation. Children play on the beaches and streets normally and the lack of asphalt or cobblestones makes the climate very pleasant, the streets are not full of excrement as the carriages have a shelf that collects it and is sent to compost afterwards.
I was expecting this place to be lacking of a lot of comforts but I can still go to bars, restaurants and prices are not exorbitant. Makes me dream of a day where we can have more cities like this.