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Background: Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers. Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Highly unequal income distribution remains a pressing problem.

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By Maxol
November 17th 2007

Salvador

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back again. after a stunning 2hr flight north from rio, i find myself in salvador. salvador is quite different to the brasil i´ve seen so far really. basically, it is very very black. salvador could be in africa and you wouldnt know the difference. salvador and the region it is in, Bahia, was a major slave destination in previous centuries. it has remained one of the blackest cities in brasil and has its own culture, music, religious themes etc. the city consists of upper and lower areas. the lower is mainly the shipping and docking areas. the upper consists of numerous [View Full Entry]

By Weltvagabunden
November 15th 2007

Salvador de Bahia - und ploetzlich waren meine Haende auf ihren Bruesten

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Bem vindos à Salvador de Bahia

Salvador de Bahia ist eine der schoensten Staedte Brasiliens. Mit seiner Altstadt, dem Pelourinho, in dem es unzaehlige Plaetze mit beindruckend schoenen Kirchen und den vielen Kolonialbauten gibt, lockt es jaehrlich Tausende von Touristen sowohl aus Brasilien selbst und dem Ausland an. Felix war bereits einmal in Salvador und war gespannt wie sich die Stadt veraendert hat. Die Tage waren hauptsaechlich gespickt mit Sightseeing. Die Abende mit jeder Menge Party! Und wo kann man das besser als auf den Strassen?! In den kleinen Gassen vom Pelourinho! Jedoch hat sich das Partyleben wohl deu [View Full Entry]

Igreja Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos

By ssemerdjian
November 13th 2007

A Weekend in Salvador

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By SandGs World Travels
October 21st 2007

Salvador

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Flew to Salvador from Rio. Stayed in Old Town Salvador, where the slave trade started in Brazil. We stayed as Pousada Redfish in the suite on the top floor, which had a deck that looked out over the city. Walked around town and took pictures of the architecture and interesting street food. Ate dinner at a traditional outdoor restaurant.The regional food is known as Bahian, originating with the African slaves. The dish we tried was a fish stew. [View Full Entry]

By SSA
October 10th 2007

Salvador -Bahia

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Pedestrian Pelourhino
Typical cobbled streets of the Pelourhino area of Salvador.

Mon 8th Oct: Very tired from last night festivities - last carnival night in Olinda. Packed and made my way to the airport - difficulty in keeping awake in the airport lounge and fell asleep as soon as I relaxed on the plane. It was only half full so had plenty of room. Swung into the usual routine when we landed of finding the tourist information office and confirming a pousada. Got the local bus from the airport - lovely route through a tunnel of bamboo trees which lined the main road and met in the middle. Stifling bus journey for [View Full Entry]

By SSA
October 10th 2007

Island of Itaparacia

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Approaching the Island of Itaparaci
Beautiful island with almost deserted beaches

Wed 10th Oct: Tuesday night turned out to be another late one with the Samba/Reggae groups going on into the early hours. The whole Pelourhino area heaved with people either watching, moving from one group to the next or dancing - a very energetic, contagious, beat-laden atmosphere. Today 'decided to get away from the crowds and go to an island, 45 mins off the coast of the mainland. Got the elevator down to lower Salvador and a boat out to the island - uneventful trip. When I got there I found that the best beaches were the far side of the [View Full Entry]

By Notredame
September 28th 2007

Marijke and Luc

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Salvador

Hello, After our visit to Rio de Janeiro we flew to Salvador ( Bahia ) and arrived around one o clock in the morning in a nice hotel in the old town Salvador. Next morning Jose took us to the central square and pointed out the main places to see or visit, we made the choise to visit the church of San Francisco and the annexing museum, interesting to see. We are glad the hotel has a little swimmingpool, so we enjoyed the water in the afternoon. Folkloric show in the evening after a good meal was an extreme experience, singing [View Full Entry]

By Ai Ya Begorra
August 12th 2007

Tales from the Jungle

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Iguazu Falls

When we first started this trip, we fully expected to lose things. Most importantly, we wanted to lose our too-structured, over-stressed, over-worked lives. But we also knew that we would lose the occasional jacket, ipod or sunglasses. The thing that we did not want to lose by any means were those things that could not be replaced, like our memories and our pictures. Which it why I was so upset when we lost our camera in Macau and thus, all our New Zealand and Australia pictures. And then this website went offline and we nearly lost all our blog entries. Thankfully, [View Full Entry]

By Vale Tudo
August 8th 2007

Salvador

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Well, today is my last day in Brazil (technically, I guess tomorrow is, but since I will spend the night in the airport we are going to say its today). How can I recap the last week? Honestly, I think today is the first day I dont have much to do - except capoeira, go see Bale Foclorico, and catch the plane. Well... Salvador is the place to go if you want to find capoeira. There is a kind of neighborhood here called Pelourinho which is a bunch of cobblestone streets, and restored colonial buildings stuffed completely full of tourist souveniers, [View Full Entry]

By Andi and Paul
August 8th 2007

Salvador

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Paul in the Pelorinho
Hold onto that camera!

´Thank-you for flying on our next generation aircraft´ were the words we heard as we touched down in Salvador. Again, it had been an appalling landing (seems to be the norm in South America), but the best thing was the ´next generation´ aircraft we´d just flown in was clearly older than the placement students at work! Still, we´d saved ourselves a 24 hour bus journey and we´d survived!! Salvador is probably one of the favourites for the scariest Danger & Annoyances section in the Lonely Planet, beating even Rio! We stayed out of the historic centre in one of the safer [View Full Entry]

Colourful Colonial Houses in the Pelorinho

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