Blogs from Bahia, Brazil, South America - page 12

Después de miles de kilómetros recorridos desde Bolivia, hemos llegado al destino final, Salvador da Bahía (Brasil). Salvador es la capital del estado de Bahía y se encuentra en la parte noreste del país. Su centro histórico es patrimonio de la humanidad por la UNESCO y la cultura afrobrasileira se respira en cada esquina. After travelling thousands of miles we have finally reached our last destiny, Salvador da Bahía (Brasil). Salvador is the capital of Bahía State and it is located in the northeast of the country. Its historic center is an UNESCO world heritage site and the afrobrasilian culture floats in the air. La suerte nos persigue y nos deja cumplir nuestros objetivos, de momento necesitábamos encontrar una casa y trabajo para poder realizar nuestros cursos de danza y percusión y también aprender portugués. En ... read more

Aquí estamos, en la gloria. Se ve que el Sao Joao dura cuatro días en Brasil... No saben ná. Llegamos el lunes y nos fuimos directamente hacia Terra Mirim, una fundación llena de gente maravillosa que nos acogió con amor y muy buena comida. Pasamos los días entre excursiones, participando en las labores de la comunidad, bailando, cantando y en un estado de meditación continua. Esto es exuberante, las semillas caen a chorro a la tierra fértil. Todo se siente muy vivo. No se nos hace raro estar aquí, y caminamos descalzos!!! Ayer fue la noche de Sao Joao y estuvimos cantando y bailando muito. La gente aquí es una gran familia y nos han hecho sentir parte de ella. Hoy hemos jugado un partido de futbol mixto, muy divertido. Hemos dejado alto el pabellón. (Saray ... read more

We THROUGHLY enjoyed Salvador! The weather is more like Brisbane's in October and the beaches are nearly as good as in Australia. Having flown in from Rio, arriving at about 2.00pm we caught a bus and travelled for 1 ½ hours to Barra which is a southern suburb of Salvador. It cost 3 Riels ($2.00 Aust) and we later learned it didn’t matter if you travelled 1 stop or for 2 hours, a bus trip always cost $R3. We had picked up a couple of maps from the tourist office at the airport so knew where we were going. We started talking to a Korean girl who was staying at the same hotel so we kept each other company and shared a taxi from where we got off the bus. The Barra Guesthouse which is ... read more

We left Lencois on May 26th with a plan to be in Rio de Janeiro by June 1st, hoping to visit three place before arriving there. This meant we would be travelling about 2750km in a very short time, so we weren't optimistic that we'd left enough time to actually see anything! We took a 6 hour bus ride back to Salvador, waited there for 5 hours and caught a 12 hour ride south to Porto Seguro. When we arrived we took a bus to the seafront, walked to the port, took a boat across the river and finally another bus 5km to our destination, Arrial d'Juda. What a mission! Although Porto Seguro is the main town of the region, we were more interested in the smaller places stretching south along the coast; we had been ... read more

I admit the last post was something of a weak scam. I never made it to Salvador during it. Feel free to take that as a reflection of just how f*****g long a journey it was over the Atlantic. I digress... Exiting Salvador airport made me extremely happy for so many reasons, though the largest contribution was undoubtedly thanks to being greeted by the smiling familiar face of Ines. I don't know for certain, but I imagine the smile disappeared when we hugged and she caught a whiff of me... We took the local bus vaguely in the direction of Barra and seemed to meander for quite some which allowed us to catch up on events over the past several months. This was broken up by the sounds of several shots being fired which caused my ... read more