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By MV
April 7th 2007

Salvador South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Lift up to the high town

We've spent a couple of days in Salvador da Bahia - the centre of Afro-Brazilian culture! We are in Pelourinho - the safe, tourist area of the city. Unfortunately because of security there are not many other places you can visit, and no others at night so it feels a bit like a bubble in which you can't really get a feel for the place. Although that's probably not helped by the fact that lots of shops and museums are closed for Easter! The hostel, Las Laranjeiras, is really cool and always bustling with activity. We're off to Lencois later [View Full Entry]

By Aimlessly Wandering1982
April 4th 2007

Salvador is so cool! South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

This is a crazy city! first, let me tell you that Maryland or Korean drivers got NOTHING on Salvadorians... After 10pm you can go thru red lights as long as no one is coming....and some do it even when there is. THe city itself has a rich African and South American blend. it's great! There's a cool light house right down the street from my hotel, the historic downtown is great, and I don't have digital pix of that because my camera died, but I will have pix in a few days I will have pix when they are developed. There [View Full Entry]

By Five
March 29th 2007

Quietly Getting Pissed South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Sunset and the Moon

Drunk, that is. Well, that was last night. I didnÂ´t plan on drinking, and when I first started writing I was sitting down to dinner at a cafÃ©. I am always inspired at the end of the day to jot down my thoughts and last night was no exception. So as a wrote on various paper napkins (I never seem to have my actual journal on me when I want it) I had a caiprinha (BrazilÂ´s national drink). But at this cafÃ© they made them with different fruits, not just with lime, and these new drinks I discovered were INCREDIBLE!!! [View Full Entry]

By Pigeon
March 22nd 2007

Salvador South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Hello everyone, Salvador is a city in the northeastish coast of Brazil. Im writing this blog about five days after i was in Salvador so I cant remember everything but i will give it a whirl. We left Olinda and got a bus from Recife to Salvador, we got an overnight bus as the trip was a short 11 hours (good bus aswell had padded leg rests and a pillow and blanket, i dont know if i have already said but the busses in brazil are frezzing and after the huge bus journey to Fortaleza from Rio in just a tshirt, [View Full Entry]

By Darren_W
March 19th 2007

The North East of Brazil - yep, all of it South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

That´s not a BBC advert.....

Salvador in North East Brazil or Bahia as its known is the third biggest city in Brazil and culturally is the most African-influenced. Just a bit of Lonely Planetesque information for you. ThatÂ´s for free. We arrived late at night and were ripped off in a taxi before being pounced upon by 10 bead sellers, one of which escorted us to a policeman to confirm that he was not going to rob us. Which was extremely kind of him but we didnÂ´t want a character reference, or to buy any beads, just to get to our hostel. The historic part [View Full Entry]

By dwhite13
March 18th 2007

I love Brazil South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Basically, I am in love with Brazil! I have had the most amazing time in this country I have done everything from dancing in the streets at Carnival to walking through a cocoa field in a MST commune. Although I was looking forward to all the countries on the SAS itinerary, I was not particularly overjoyed at the idea of going to Brazil. The fact that we were going to be in Brazil during Carnival also contributed to some of my mixed feelings about Brazil. The first day we got to Brazil my friends and I went out to explore [View Full Entry]

By Life Is Beautiful
March 15th 2007

Say hello to my little friend... South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Grrrr!

Meet Beruška , the latest addition to our little team. After scouring the classifieds, the internet, and finally the streets of Salvador, for a Toyota Land Cruiser, we became convinced that these cars just don't exist in Salvador and prepared to move on to the next city, by bus. Just then, guess who shows up - none other than the beautiful Beruška herself, and parked in the parking-lot of our apartment nogal. What followed next was a series of skillful negotiations (with Danilo, Nanda's brother doing most of the talking obviously), a check-up at the local Toyota mechanic [View Full Entry]

By wingin it
March 8th 2007

Dan in ... BRAZIL! South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Florianopolis familia

Florianopolis Fully relaxed and recharged from our time in Iguazu, the much anticipated foray into Brazil was underway. Andy & I had met a young Australian couple Trent and Tegan, with whom we caught an early morning taxi and crossed the border into the adjacent brazillian province of Paraná. From Foz do Iguazu (the Brazilian town near Iguazu Falls) we jumped on a bus headed for Florianopolis, the beach-island resort capital city of Santa Catarina, to the south of Paraná. Andy, who had been to Florianpolis (or 'floppy-ya-knob-at-this' as he liked to call it) was really kee [View Full Entry]

By Ammo
March 4th 2007

A Tale of 2 Carnivals South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Well New Orleans Mardis Gras was a big party but Carnival in Rio turned it up to 11. In N´Awlins you get the great jazz and creole cooking and as the parades are in procession and the floats go past people tend to get lost in the moment and lose all their inhibitions, scrambling to catch the beads that get tossed into the crowd and you end up looking like a gay Mr T with all the green, purple and gold around your neck (which symbolise faith , justice and power btw fact fans, though the significance is somewhat lost on [View Full Entry]

By Elmo Abbey
February 26th 2007

We've got beads South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

To scared to take pictures

We arrived in Salvador after a great day and nights traveling fiasco, including 4 hours at Ouro Preto bus station, because we had forgotten the time zone had changed. We then decided to take the bus from Belo Horizonte to the airport by which time it was evening. The reason being to avoid a 24 hour bus ride. So we ended up with flights that took from 10pm until 5am and cost twice as much. Salvador at 7am was very different from the scenic Ouro Preto we had left behind. Basically this place was a bit scary so we legged it [View Full Entry]

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