Salvador Br (37) 1

Salvador

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January 30th 2011
Wednesday 19th January Salvador, Brazil An early start today with breakfast in our cabin and we were excited as the better ports to stop at were now beginning. Salvador was Brazil’s former capital and is divided into an upper and lower section. It is full of multicoloured homes, great markets, narrow cobbled stones, old squares and nearly 300 hundred churches. We decided to flavour it by ... read more

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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 t... ... read more