Our favorite driving is the country driving. We do this every trip as we travel between Pipa and the highway exit town of Goianinha (10 times in total). The trip is about 30km and the GPS is worthless. It always wants to take short cuts that wouldn't be safe for a 4 wheeler.
After the first couple trips, we realized that the it reminds us of playing Mario Kart. There are a LOT of obstacles. The intentional obstacles are the speed bumps. There are probably about twenty of varying sizes and colors. Many of them sneak up on you and you have to break at the last second or just bound the rental car over them.
The pothole obstacles are the most common. They are often in groups of 3 or 4, so that you have to pick a perfect line through them. This is especially difficult when it rains, which is often.
The animals provide some challenging moving obstacles. Dogs, cats, donkeys, horses, cows, goats....it never seems to end. You can tell you are winning if you are going fast enough that the Pipa taxi cabs are not passing you in a blind corner, but your passenger is also not bouncing off the ceiling.
If you make the mistake of arriving in Pipa in the late evening, which we often did, then you will be greeted with a final obstacle: a few hundred pedestrians between you and your hotel!
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