Salvador and Chapada Diamantina
February 23rd 2013 After escaping Rio unscathed I caught a brief flight up to Salvador in the Bahia province. Salvador also hosts arguably as big a Carnival as Rio and it was fun to see the remnants of theirs still lingering around. Salvador was the first colonial capital of Brazil and one of the oldest cities in the Americas. Here you notice the stronger African influence in the people, food and culture. There aren
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