Salvador

Our home in Salvador is pure luxury - a hotel room overlooking Praca da Se, in the Pelhourino district, Brazillian´s consider as the home of music and culture.
The sights are picturesque with cobbled streets, colourful buildings and smiling friendly faces.
My office-conditioned body finds the days tough, so we spend the day lazily strolling the streets in anticipation of the precarnaval street party!
We head out at about 6pm and we can already hear drums through the streets. There are open air concerts in the plazas, stalls on the street (selling every possible cocktail) and people everywhere.
At last, I am able to dance in Brazil! Poor dan was feeling a little under the weather, and a little out of place (people seem to think I am Brazillian, so manage to blend in), but I was loving it! I struggled to co-ordinate on cobbled
streets but it was a blast with live bands and beautiful happy people! Can´t
quite seem to shake it like the Brazillians do yet though!

Salvador Highs:
- Discovering the renowned Amazonian fruit breakfast - ACAI - divine!
-And of course, dancing in the streets with Dan..
- Capoeira Show - Amazing (Brazillian bodies are unlike any other)
- Having my hair plaited by a one eyed Brasilliera!

Salvador Lows :
- The smelly basket next to the toilet (paper cannot be flushed!)
- Attack the gringo mentality: people flock towards us (or moreso Dan) to sell all things possible, or tell us their lifestory and asking for USD.. Can be a tad draining after awhile...
- Having my hair plaited - by a one eyed Brasilliera, and realising that she had messed up what should have been a perfectly symmetrical work of plaits, when I looked in the mirror! You will know what I mean when you see the photo!

Bom Dia to you all, Haze

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