Salvador, Brazil Travel Blogs

Bus what?
Jan 22, 2007 (5 photos)

... small town of Buzios and Daniel Powder`s "Had a bad day" was playing on the sound system.  What?  I am now in Salvador Brazil, the heart of afro-brazilian history.  From the time I left Buzios until I walked into my hostel here, it was a 38 ...

Beaches of Barra
Jun 6, 2007 (5 photos)

... GBP 12, we stuffed ourselves with a kilo of fresh lobster (2 each!)    The next day, we left Salvador for a flight to Iguazu.  We enjoyed our days in Salvador and were glad that we got to experience a very different ...

Carnival!!!
Feb 17, 2007 (10 photos)

... the capital of Brazil), but we are in Salvador. My first official entry on the road!!!  Currently I'm writing from Salvador do Bahia, Brazil.  Shan, Joe and my sister Samantha are here, arriving safely and in high spirits.  Carnival ...

Salvador
Sep 29, 2005

there´s nothing interesting here to see. i even went to a church where the book says that the african artists who built it made the baby-angel´s penises extreamly large - to spit the Spanish - and guess what? they took the babies´ penises off! now they are ...

Carneval, Charlotchi and Bahia
Feb 26, 2009 (5 photos)

... , everyone comes, everyone dances, and everyone dances WELL.  FOR HOURS!! apparently 2 million people come to Carneval in Salvador. Unimaginable numbers. In the middle of the parade, we listened and danced to Gilberto Gil singing a song I ...

Africa in Brazil
Jul 25, 2005 (3 photos)

... we learned that there were more terrorist attacks in the UK and Egypt ... We are writing from Salvador the Bahia, the colonial capital of Brazil, famous for its colonial architecture, gilded churches and African lifestyle. No other place in Brazil has ...

Salvador
Sep 15, 2009 (5 photos)

Got to Salvador after a killer 33 hours bus ride. I was only going to spend a day there, without staying overnight, but predictably Tuesday turned out to the party night :] Also, I saw great churrascos being grilled on the main square in Pelourinho, and ...

Salvador
Mar 25, 2008 (7 photos)

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Rio de Janeiro - Salvador da Bahia
Apr 2, 2006

This morning we travelled on Varig from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador da Bahia.

Back from the Mountains into the Ocean
Sep 8, 2006 (4 photos)

... . Citronella candles were not effective--citronella incense was better, but it burns itself out in the middle of the night. In Salvador, we are staying at a decent hotel in the Barra area (last time we stayed in Centro), directly on the ocean for R$35, ...

Salvador de Bahia avec un des mes ex-coturnes !
Apr 29, 2008 (5 photos)

... La fête avait l'originalité d'être destinée aux gens d'origine japonaise !! Bienvenu au Brésil ! :) Nous visitons pendant 2 jours Salvador: - le pelogrinho, soit disant dangereux mais nous n'avons eu aucun problème - les plages de Salvador (rien de spécial ...

Sounds of Salvador de Bahia
Dec 15, 2007 (34 photos)

... was. We were heading into the Baia de Todos os Santos - Bay of Saints and we had turned around to reach the Port in Salvador. This city of over 2 million people has about a 70% Afro-Brazilian population and the sounds of drums and music is everywhere. We ...

Music, Capoeira, Hawking and Hiking - BAHIA!!
Aug 30, 2004 (19 photos)

... les photos. Je vous embrasse tous, André (andre_deslauriers@sympatico.ca) We arrived in Salvador, Bahia around 7 p.m. on August 18th. It was dark - in Brazil, the sun sets by 6 p.m. which continues to take some adjustment having come from the ...

Salvador, Brasil
Aug 22, 2006 (2 photos)

... from practicing their own religion. So the slaves mapped their own deities to Christian saints, and worshipped the saints in disguise. Salvador is the cradle of Candomble. Similar to this, we visited a Christian church built by slaves over a period of 100 ...

Salvador
Oct 10, 2009

... coming from all directions at all parts of the day, and especially at night there are many people who play in the streets. Salvador has a really strong African culture and population, so the music and food and culture you see every where is really african ...

Brazil: "It's Portugal with a few more cowboys."
Apr 7, 2005

Day One: Domingo conquers all plans Salvador is a historic city in Brazil, the former capital it served as the main port for the slave trade. Brazilians are a mix of indigenous peoples, black slaves, and Europeans. The courtyards and streets feel ...

The First Port
Sep 11, 2008 (48 photos)

... other friends and headed out for our last night in Brazil. There had actually been quite a bit of security problems since we reached Salvador so most everyone was glad to be going out with a large group. Many students have been held up or mugged or robbed, ...

Salvador de bahia Brasil
May 21, 2006 (87 photos)

que tal cokmo va. luego de dejar nuestro departamento en copacabana tomamos el bus para ir al aeropuerto, para tomar nuestro vuelo directo a salvador de bahia. pero ahora me tengo que ir, les dejo las fotos de bahia y de ahi escribo lo que hemos hecho, ...

sreda,cetrvtak, petak u riju i vikend u salvadoru
Jan 30, 2007

... svirke. Slusao sam neku mladu ekipu koja svira sambu i koja je hit na karnevalu. imaju svoju binu na ipanemi:-)0 U subotu sam dosao u Salvador, gde sam spavao kod porfesora koji mi je bio sef kad sam bio na razmeni. Mislio sam bice opusteno, ali ne cim ...

The Baiana comes home!
Oct 27, 2008 (8 photos)

... 18 months of life! The Lonely Planet says the following about Salvador: 'If you're going to be pickpocketed or mugged in Brazil, Salvador is likely to be the place!'  Excellent!  Luckily it also says: 'Salvador is one of Brazil's brightest ...

Caipiriniha Queen!!
Aug 9, 2007 (3 photos)

... ´re down the coast now in Itacaré, after leaving Salvador on Wednesday. It´s a cool surf town on the coast and definitely safer than Salvador but with a great reggae vibe. It will be very hard to leave this country!!!

Halfway up Brasil, less than a month left here
Dec 16, 2005

... price as the bus!!! So 1200km covered in the space of about 2 hours instead of 26!!! So that landed me in Salvador Bahia on the Atlantic coast in Brazil where I stayed for a couple of days, getting my feet wet again with some diving. Then took a bus to ...

Het zwarte hart van Brazillie
Dec 9, 2008 (12 photos)

... engels meer). Dus... niet overvallen maar wel bestolen! Nou ja het zal allemaal wel bij de ervaring horen die Salvador heet. Deze gebeurtenis maakte mijn beslissing wel een stuk makkelijker, was wel even klaar met Salvador. Dus... Itaúnas here I ...

Salvador
Aug 19, 2006 (2 photos)

... who seem to have spent there life perfecting the sport. the water is clear and beautiful and nice to swim in. the food in Salvador is also something special with all different types of delicious local dishes that i seem to have gotten hooked on. i would ...

Candomble
Dec 29, 2009 (8 photos)

... lessons I walked passed the main beaches. They will so packed it was ridiculous. So I went to small island just off Salvador called Itaparica. It was a lovely boat ride there and back, but the island itself wasn`t nothing to write home about... so I wont. ...

Salvador
Feb 18, 2009

... who confusingly only spoke Swedish . So there was a group of us to go to the carnival together, basically the Salvador carnival consists of 3 circuits, Barra, Campo Grande and Pelorinho. All were different in the various different atmospheres, music etc. ...

Carnaval!
Feb 16, 2009 (6 photos)

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Brazil for Dummies
Nov 6, 2004 (10 photos)

... Barra district, it has a quaint colonial feel with strong African influences abound. After a crazy week in Rio, a little R&R in Salvador surely does the body good. The views are great, the food is tastey and the music never stops....literally. Ah ...

After bus ride 500 miles south of Olinda...
Sep 21, 2007 (26 photos)

... Magnum!  This in addition to various crisps that i had bought at Recife bus station.  Shared a taxi from Salvador bus station to the historical centre with 2 girls from Italy. Have found our guest house, Pousada Villa Carmo, which is ...

O bom filho se volta na casa
Jan 2, 2007 (1 photos)

Bom filho se volta na casa ili sto bi mi rekli Lesi se vraca kuci. Dok sam cekao na aerodromu avion toliko sam bio umoran da bi u slucaju da se pojavio JATairlift odmah usao u njega i otisao u BG da spavam. Ali bi zajebaooooo. Vec kad sam stigao i kad ...