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By Jake and Leslie
March 21st 2009

Culture AND beaches! (Salvador and Morro de Sao Paulo) South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Tudo bem!

We were waiting to post our Salvador blog entry until we developed the rolls of old-school film. We finally accomplished that, so here is our lost entry from March... Salvador de Bahia We left Rio de Janeiro by plane (no 25 hour bus for us!) and headed to Salvador, a large city in Bahia state known for its crazy Carnaval, African influence and the historic colonial district, called the Pelourinho. Salvador has a reputation for crime-- especially robberies of tourists-- so we had our guards up. We weren´t robbed but we did get scammed out of US$4 when a fake bus [View Full Entry]

Tiroleza= insane looking zipline off a cliff, in Morro de Sao Paulo

View of ´island´connecting Praia 2 and 3, in Morro de Sao Paulo

By davinbrazil
March 17th 2009

Orchids South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

Purple Orchid

Today, contrasting with yesterday's rather depressing note, here are pictures I took at the Orchid Centre right near Lençóis. [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
March 14th 2009

The Age of Stupid South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

It's the third day since a fire was set off in the forest across the Riberão River - almost certainly intentionally. According to Roy Funch's excellent guidebook to the Chapada Diamantina, there are many reasons why this occurs. Often, they are due to cattle farmers who want to extend pastures for their animals, or simply as a gratuitous act of vindication against the National Park which expelled them from the area to protect the local fauna and flora. Less frequent as they used to be, but still of occurrance, diamond prospectors burn out areas to make it easier to identify the [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
March 13th 2009

Blog impressions, week days and Açaï South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

Poço Halley

Today, I have mustered the energy to write just a few residual thoughts from my overall trip: I have now been in Brasil for over 2 months! Parabens (congratulations in Brazilian) to myself! As for this blog, through which I intended to convey my thoughts and impressions on top of news of my whereabouts, I'm fairly happy with it. It is difficult to make very regular updates, and laziness often takes the upper hand when I internally debate about a potential new article. Despite that, I've managed to keep it fairly regularly updated. Perhaps a few regrets about the lack of [View Full Entry]

By linzcrowe
March 11th 2009

Itacaré recovery time South America » Brazil » Bahia » Itacaré

Local wildlife

Tim Version: * Went to a stunning beach village, Itacaré, and recovered from Carnaval. * Even got to get a bit of decent surfing in while I was there! The version that loves the cove style beaches of Itacaré, very tranquilo: Itacaré was a spot I had heard about from a Brazilian girl we surfed with in Pavones, Costa Rica, all those months ago. After Carnaval I certainly needed some down time at the beach and this was the place to have it. A lot of people from our Salvador hostel went down there, as well as to Morro, so it [View Full Entry]

By Nate and Miri
March 10th 2009

Carnival in Salvador South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Our Hostel

And... we came back for the Carnival! The town has changed soo much! Before we were the only two white people in the whole town and now we can see more tourists, the town looks nicer and there´s much more people around :D The first day we decided to stay in the area where was our hostel (Pelourinho). It´s the old part of the town, the centre, and as well I must say... a quite dangerous part. There´s lots of poor people around. What worries more are the children. The use to be the ones committing more of the crimes here. [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
March 9th 2009

Lençóis history + film South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

Cachoeirinha (little waterfall)

Today you will get a treat of Lençóis history, along with photos of the little walk I just did up to the cachoeirinha and the cachoeira da primaveira, for which I didn't need a guide as it was only about an hour away. I managed to take a few (too many you may think) pictures of lizards and dragonflies on the way. Lençóis was founded in the mid-19th Century by diamond prospectors, when precious stones began to be found in the area. The city grew quickly due to the diamond rush, which also gave the name to the area of the [View Full Entry]

By davinbrazil
March 7th 2009

Chapada Diamantina - and grammar! South America » Brazil » Bahia » Lençóis

The serrano river

Here are photos of a few more sights around Lençóis. Otherwise, I thought I talk a little bit about the Portuguese language today. For whoever knows a decent amount of Spanish, Portuguese is pretty easy to pick up at a basic level. In fact, simply speaking Spanish with a Brazilian pronunciation will probably get you quite far. Naturally, speaking properly requires quite a lot more work. I'll try to explain some of the main rules of Brazilian Portuguese language and pronunciation, as well as a few interesting aspects: In terms of pronunciation, there are a few letters that, depending o [View Full Entry]

By HayleyandSimon
March 5th 2009

Salvador, Brasil Feb 09 South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

We arrived in Salvador safely, after nearly missing our connecting flight in Miami, but luckily the Captain was at the gate waiting for us. When we arrived in Salvador we met a Norweigan guy named Halvor, who we shared a cab with to our hostel, luckily he was staying in Pelourinho just as we were. He proved to be not only a great drinking companion but also he was very well travelled and taught us alot about other regions in South America, also he spoke some Spanish so that helped a bit. The first thing we did on our arrival to [View Full Entry]

By linzcrowe
March 3rd 2009

Carnaval!!! South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador

Nega Maluca, my homefor the week

Tim Version: * Carnaval - everything it is cranked up to be! Mad parties all the time, dancing everywhere, huge Blockos, music all the time, muggings and pickpocketing everywhere, and a beer vendor never more than 10 metres from you. * I think I killed my liver... * Ventured to the local Salvador beaches, including an island beach. The sleepless party like f´ing crazy version: Hard to know where to start for this entry.. OK, maybe the hostel, Nega Maluca, wicked hostel =) Very comfoortable, good owner, good workers, good crowd. I got a dorm bed in a dark quiet corner [View Full Entry]

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