Salvador, Brazil Travel Blogs

The international bastard syndrome.
Nov 10, 2005 (21 photos)

... hundred more rip-off examples, but lets hope today was the last one. Yeah right! Except for that, I really enjoy Salvador. We stay in the old historic Pelourinho neighborhood (another UNESCO World Heritage site) with all it's churches, colorful houses ...

Celebrating in Barra!
Aug 15, 2006 (2 photos)

... (which was incredibly noisy at night by the way - very loud music from surrounding bars) and got bus to Barra. This is a suburb of Salvador on the coast and quite small. Has a nice beach and a lighthouse and then quite a few hotels. Checked in here and ...

Wandering more colonial streets
Aug 13, 2006 (10 photos)

Got overnight bus from Recife to Salvador with Itapemirim which was good but not as good as the last one. Arrived into the bus station next morning and were surprised at how high rise and built up the city is - sprawls for miles and miles. Got a local ...

Ten Things to Love About Brazil
Dec 14, 2004 (10 photos)

... Andy's futile attempt at dancing. 8) Watching capoeira in Salvador- Another form of dance we saw in Salvador is capoeira. African slaves in Brazil originally developed capoeira as a martial art form to fight their colonial masters. It was turned into an ...

Cachoeira to Salvador - Day 55
Mar 3, 2009

... were fully booked to Rio today, shit!!! There are only seats available for tomorrow's departures. Looks like I'm staying in Salvador for another night. I caught a local bus to the Peloriniho and went back to the hostel where I stayed during carnival. ...

Carnaval Baby!
Feb 22, 2006 (17 photos)

... song, KINDA like line dancing, bet, well, much cooler ;-) Itaparica - Went to the big island in the enormous bay that Salvador is famous for to check out some beach action. Found a pretty unspoiled section, played a little paddleball and had a great ...

Dallying along the Coast to Salvador
Sep 3, 2006 (20 photos)

... . That was the extent of our partying. We wouldn't make very good Brazilians! Our next stop was Salvador...what a contrast! The one-time capital of Brazil and pride of the Portugese Empire, Salvador is now a vibrant but rather run-down city that is ...

Rio de Janeiro to Salvdor - Day 40
Feb 16, 2009

... to be a physical and mental wreck after 10 days of carnival!! I've been warned by many people about the crime in Salvador. I'm honestly expecting to get mugged at some point during my stay. I'll not carry anything of value around the city  except for ...

Salvador (Carnival!!!) - Day 41-51
Feb 17, 2009 (23 photos)

... English, "I'm gonna kill you later", as I walked passed him with my heavy laden backpack. A pleasant welcome to Salvador!! Something to look forward to this evening. Checked into the hostel feeling slightly worried about the recent death threat. Took ...

Salvador Dali, well Salvador Bahai actually
Nov 14, 2007 (98 photos)

Day 28.   14 November 2007 (Salvador, Brazil)   We start our day thinking we've made a mistake booking an excursion (walking tour) when we could have easily done it on our own.  The excursion turns out to be really great and covers ...

Salvador
Nov 9, 2004 (2 photos)

... and practicing deep breathing techniques! There was on fella (jerk) who was happily drinking beer. I nearly threw him in. Salvador is a beautiful, colorful, colonial city. We stayed near all of the action and naturally, (because it was party Tuesday ...

Revealing Swimwear and Flip Flops
Oct 31, 2006 (13 photos)

... back on the gringo trail again after spending luxury time with my folks. I took for flights out of Bolivia to get to Salvador, Brazil is such a big country.... I arrived at La Paz airport to find my flight time had change and the flight was leaving, ...

Chilling In Salvador
Mar 1, 2005 (1 photos)

... !! What a great place.... huge African influence here from the slave trading days so a major change from the Brazil I`ve seen so far. Although Salvador is a huge thriving city, we stayed in the old cultural centre which is packed full of old colonial ...

The Never-ending Beach
May 1, 2006 (17 photos)

... stopped celebrating from what I can tell. Every night there is live music in the street and a concert somewhere. Salvador is Brazil´s most African influenced city as there are millions of decendents from black slaves in this region. And the traditions ...

Carnaval Hangover
Feb 28, 2004 (2 photos)

... I was only planning on staying three, and Whitney one so we decided to cut our losses and catch the last catamaran for Salvador at 4:30pm. We picked a hostel in Salvador at random from our guidebook and hoped that they would have a vacancy for us. As ...

Shopping Barra
Sep 8, 2005 (3 photos)

Goodbye Aleksandra and Salvador Melih got up very early this day, because he wanted to see off Aleksandra to the airport. I thought he will be back in the right time for breakfast, but when I got up at 8 he wasn`t in the room. So I was a bit worry, ...

Samba baby!!!
Oct 18, 2005

... looks so natural to them! What a cool atmosphere...we just stood there drinking beer & caiparinha's listening to samba watching Salvador strut its stuff!!! The next morning we enjoyed brekkie on the balcony and then it was out to explore the sights! ...

Reunion with old Friends
Sep 12, 2005 (2 photos)

Nothing to Do Cafe da Manha We had not breakfast and and we didn`t know where we could put our bags and so we thought it is the best to visit our lovely Pousada in Barra. And they were happy ;) We could eat breakfast there for a small amount of ...

Salvador - the Black Soul of Brazil
Sep 4, 2005 (12 photos)

... Pousadas and by the way very expensive ones. After a while we found in a small street the perfect Pousada Milagres. Pousada Milagres Salvador To stay there is like to live with a family. She and her son are so kind. She was giving us food ...

Culture Schock
Sep 5, 2005 (27 photos)

... ... where are the people and what are they doing? So we just drank a juice and went home after two hours nice talking. More Information about Salvador This is a encyclopedia about Salvador This is the official Website of Salvador da Bahia

Salvador
Nov 8, 2007

We decided  to take the easy route getting from Rio to Salvador and took a 2 hour flight instead of a 30 hour bus... We arrived at the hostel late in the evening and it was 1 block from the beach which is always good. However when we got  ...

Salvador - Pelourinho
Oct 24, 2009 (4 photos)

Our final destination was Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador. As usual, we met some Brazilian couple on the road. Later, the husband really insisted waiting with us for 10 minutes until the right bus toward Pelourinho will show us, because ...

Carnival at Salvador de Bahia
Jan 30, 2008 (7 photos)

... in Salvador is different from the Rio de Janeiro version that we see on TV with feathered costumes and choreographed samba dances. Salvador is more like a massive street party, where there are floats with what's called a trio. Which is a band (apparently ...

Finally got to the coast
Oct 13, 2006 (6 photos)

... the relgion Candomblé. Pretty cool fire dance the guy did. This is probably a good time to mention the other side of Salvador. Before even coming to Brazil, you hear how awesome it is here. And it is. But at the same time, the poverty and the amount ...

Violence
Sep 10, 2006

... adds a significant layer. We were not sure what the man was saying and it probably would have shed light on the situation. 2) Salvador is a great place. In fact, it may be our favorite city so far. It feels very livable, fun, and lively -- we ...

Brazil!
Feb 9, 2006

... sounding too presumptuous. . With the friends that I have, shocks don't come one in a million. We docked in San Salvador, a city of 1.2 million crazy people who love reggae and drum a helluva lot. One of the things that sticks in my mind the most ...

Salvador - Africa and Brazil in one pot
Sep 20, 2006 (6 photos)

After a couple of days on Morro we returned to the main city of Salvador. This city is pretty amazing. It is Brazil and Africa all in one go. There is a huge black population, dating back to the days African slaves were bought over by the Portugese when it ...

Salvador - Sonne, Musik und Karneval
Jan 28, 2008

... am Meer (bzw. an der "Allerheiligenbucht") und hat seit der Kolonialzeit starken afrikanischen Einfluss. (--> Salvador ist meine Lieblingsstadt in Brasilien und gehoert neben San Francisco und Barcelona zu meinen Lieblingsstaedten ueberhaupt.) ...

Days 54-55 Rest & Sights in Salvador by ES
Jan 23, 2008 (3 photos)

... our trip. We were picked up from the bus station by Carolyn's aunt, Maria dos Remedios, and headed to her beautiful apartment in Salvador.  We had breakfast and napped the rest of the morning to catch up on sleep.  After lunch, she took us on ...

D'un continent a l'autre ...
Mar 12, 2008 (9 photos)

... ...les peaux, les sons, les odeurs, les rythmes... Un autre continent...     Salvador, dorenavant simple capitale d état, a ete la premiere capitale de l empire colonial portuguais du Bresil. ...