Pousada Mar a Vista Salvador
Rua Lemos de Brito nº184 Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil
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And This is Where it All Began
... in 45 degree weather... Quite the deadly combo.
Then I see I have air conditioning in my room... I walk to it and press every button, switch every swicth and rotate every knob in an attempt to turn it on... but it was futile... I escpe the box of an inferno that is my room and I lay on the couch in the common room of the hostile and fall asleep waiting for Natalie to arrive at the hostel.
I manage to fall sleep on the couch in the 45 degree temp with ...
Samba in Salvador
... in one of the squares. Again, the music was all amazing and the dancing was equally super-charged.
The next day, we caught a local bus to the bus station and jumped on a northbound bus to the beach town of Praia do Forte. Finally, we were at a beach and the weather was cooperating. It was beautiful. We sampled delicious acai (a local fruit that they make into a kind of sorbet) at a café by the beach and visited a turtle rehabilitation center, where as well as ...
Home comforts
... all kinds of paperwork and documents. Among them was a friendly American called Eli, who happened to be 33 as well, who had recently moved to Salvador with his Brazilian wife and was going through what he described as bureaucratic hell to get his resident´s identity card.
The office opened and I got the first ticket, showed my passport and receipt for the tax which we had paid in Belem. Minutes later, and with a minimum of fuss, I was the proud owner ...
Carnaval!!!!!
... speak good English, I had no choice but to be polite and talk to him. It actually turned out great for me as I scored some free beers off him and an ugly beaded necklace. However, dare I pass one of my beers on to the boys, my Brazilian admirer would take it off them and give it straight back to me!
We discovered a prime party location on the first night and as it turned out, this would be our party hub for 3 out of the 4 ...
Life's one big Carnival
... a freshly made Caipirinha for less than AU$2, which made the experience immensely enjoyable, if a little hazy towards the end. The CamoroteOur Camorote lay around halfway along the circuit, which meant that we’d have to push and shove our way past 500,000 crazy, sweaty Brazilians to get to it. Fortunately, we discovered a precipitous cliff top path which ran adjacent to the parade, over which we stumbled grimly along in pitch darkness, clinging ...


