SANTA TERESA is only 90km northwest from Vitória but the hills
between them are steep, reducing buses to a crawl for
significant stretches and padding the journey out to a good two
hours. The initial run up the main highway towards Bahia to the
hill town of Fundão is attractive enough, but the winding road
that takes you the 13km from here to Santa Teresa is something
special, with great views on either side of the bus. The soils
are rich, and dense forest is interspersed with coffee bushes
and intensively cultivated hill farms, framed by dramatic
granite cliffs and escarpments.