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By wvDrifters
May 22nd 2009

Unesco World Heritage Site, Salvador de Bahia South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Beautiful Sunset

After another overnight bus, we arrived in Salvador de Bahia famous for preserving traditional Bahian culture, samba music, the martial/dance art of capoeira, Rastafarian religion and for the worlds biggest party known as Carnival!! We arrived early around 6am then took a cab to Hotel Estrela in Pelourinho, the historic district of town. Pelourinho means whipping post in Portuguese and the location was a major slave auction port outlawed in 1835. When we arrived we were greeted by an incredibly nice receptionist who had been working at the Hotel for over 14yrs and learned English by wat [View Full Entry]

By wvDrifters
May 18th 2009

Funky Itacare, Brasil South America » Brazil » Bahia » Itacaré

Calm Coroinha Bay

We left Paraty and were bound for an idyllic surf town in the North of Brazil called Itacare. There was no direct bus, so we made the 2 hour trip back to Rio de Janerio (which is absolutely stunning at night) and then arranged for a 25hr overnight bus to Ilheus. We made a bet about how many times this bus would stop along the way with the maximum number of stops being 10. Lucky for us this particular bus had incredibly social personalities cracking jokes at each other and giving the bus drivers a hard time. It was a fun [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
May 3rd 2009

Cachoeira do Sossego South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

Coral snake

Lucky you! You'll get treated with a second blog entry today! Simply because I also wanted to put up pictures of the walk I did today. Yesterday, naturally, I was exhausted and did nothing as I had been checking in guests in the middle of the night. Today, however, I decided I would finally manage to reach the Sossego waterfall. I had already tried to reach it before, but by following the riverbed straight from the Ribeirão do Meio (the place with the natural tobogan), which made it extremely long. In addition, I didn't know the way, and when I tried [View Full Entry]

Went through a serie of very very small holes.

By davinbrazil
May 2nd 2009

Gruta do Lapão South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

The stream fell straight into a crack in the rocks

The day before yesterday, that is straight after our return from the failed attempt to reach the Michilla waterfall, the same group and guides went off to explore the Lapão cave. By then I had got to know much better the other members of the group, who were truly interesting and entertaining caracters: Filipe, from Portugal, had grown up in Namibia and had also studied in Germany; Ines, his Slovenian girlfriend; and Camila, their Norwegian travelling companion. They were all working in an orphanage in a small town near Rio de Janeiro, facing much tougher working conditions than I have over [View Full Entry]

Me shaking my wet, wet hair under the waterfall

By davinbrazil
April 29th 2009

Aborted Michilla waterfall attempt South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

The view from the top of the capivari waterfall

Yesterday, I left on what was supposed to be a 2 to 3 day trek into the national park. It started well, with a decent amount of sun, and a lovely shower under the 35m high Capivarí waterfall. However, it rained quite a bit during the night, and much more in the morning, with no end of it in sight, so we decided it would be better to backtrack. I enjoyed it though. The capivarí was a lovely waterfall. I had taken a video of me under it, but internet here is simply too slow to upload it (I once heard [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
April 22nd 2009

Back from the rain(forest) South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

First view of the trail

I'm back! Unfortunately, the walk only lasted 3 days, as a couple in the group had to return early to São Paulo early. Pity, but it was worthwhile nonetheless. It was quite testing, actually. Long walking days, including large parts walking on very steep slopes of mud or wet clay, offering numerous opportunities for falling on your backside which I took full advantage of. We also had to cross river rapids with slippery stones, which was not too easy. Undoubtedly the most annoying rainforest feature though was the 'capim navalha' (I think I'm writing it correctly), a plant with long, sharp [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
April 18th 2009

Back on track South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

I should really feel ashamed of my current blogging performance. My latest entry was on the 31st March, and was really uninformative. I will do my best to make up for it. I am still truly enjoying Lençóis. Its small size allows one to meet many of its inhabitants in a short period of time and to soon call it home, whilst its cosmopolitanism (a large part of the population came from other parts of Brazil or from ‘o exterior’) makes you feel connected to outside, makes you feel no different from many of the locals. My work at the pousada [View Full Entry]

By Juliejules
April 14th 2009

smile, you are in bahia!!!! South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Meine Osterferien habe ich dieses Jahr nicht schokoladeeiersuchend, sondern sonnenbadend verbracht. Nachdem die letzten Wochen in Brasilia mit all dem Pogramm doch recht anstrengend waren, war das bisschen Sonne tanken und relaxen das groesste Geschenk. Ich bin am Donnerstag nachmittags nach Salvador geflogen, und der erste Eindruck hat mich schon ueberzeugt: willkommen im Paradies: Wo sonst sieht man eine Bambus-aehnliche Zuckerrohr-Allee, die sich ueber 1km im Flughafen-entree entlang schlaengelt, um die neuen Gaeste zu empfangen, und den abfliegenden den Abschied noch ein bisschen schwerer [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
March 31st 2009

À L'Ouest rien de nouveau South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

Ribeirão do meio

It's been a long break since my last post. Not that I have been doing strictly nothing, but prehaps nothing worthy of a full-scale article. And you wait, you wait, for something important to happen, but only mondane events have punctuated the last few weeks. This article will not have an overarching theme, but will rather be a little collection of some of the - as I have said - rather banal things that have occurred. Firstly, the obvious: I'm still in Lençóis. I thought my work at the pousada would have been finished by now, but they seem to be [View Full Entry]

By Naty
March 29th 2009

Enamorada de Bahia South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

La Rambla

Playas pequeñas, pero encantadoras. Un lugar lleno de magia. [View Full Entry]

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