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Salvador Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Salvador, Brazil
The end of the city of music!
... traditional instruments, watching capoeira. I also went to visit the igreja do bonfim, which is the most important church in Salvador for candomble believers. Replica body parts hanging from the ceiling in one of the rooms, but the thing that ...
Music and Dancing
As with pretty much all of Brazil, Salvador has been great too. I'm sat writing this in a hostel there after spending the day on the beach, again and going to see a turtle sanctuary. The town is spilt into 2 main areas, The Pelourihno or the Old Town ...
Salvador
... into one. This is the time of year when men think it is OK to dress up like women and make a fool of themselves. In Salvador, there are these massive trucks that are a big sound system, a band plays on top of them and tons of people follow these trucks ...
Festival de Iemanja
So after Bev left I had a few very chilled days, preparing myself (seriously!) for carnival. I relished every last moment in my little apartment, with all that luxurious space to myself, appreciated the (relative) quiet, went for a last few ...
The pointy end of the stick...goodbye coffee
After another healing and wonderful ceremony at Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá a beautiful terrireo just outside of town a bit, the hard bit of my healing has arrived. (Thank you to Neginho, Paulo and Jorge for taking me to this beautiful house, and for treating ...
Brotha Man!
... VISIT!!! Aaron flew down on his first non-US vacation to visit us and check out these famous Brazilian babes. We only stayed in Salvador one night with him, and it was at the nicest hotel we stayed in the entire trip, mini fridge, tv, air conditioning, ...
Carnavooooowl! Says it all really
... , Lula and Juan. Lula is from Salvador and Juan is from Spain and they currently spend time between both countries. Their place in Salvador is a nice two bedroom apartment in a very central favela. Yes you heard correctly, their apartment is in one of the ...
Carnaval!
When I was in Rio for Carnaval I was told Carnaval in Salvador was not to be missed so I went to check it out. Massive party! Also was suprised by my Antartica/travel buddy showing up just a couple of hours before I had to start making my way ...
Feliz Carnaval!
... dancing down the street in the rain. So now theres 9 of us in total. 5 in our apartment and 4 in theirs. Salvador at the moment is like one giant urinal, I am really happy that it rains every day, otherwise the smell would ...
Salvador
... ! You're better. I got to go see the Marine Turtle Project in Praie de Forte (it's about an hour outside of Salvador). They have about 5 different species of sea turtles that visit the coast of Bahia (the state Salvador is in). They range from ...
o bom filho na casa se retorna
... malo ipak se ovako kaze Lesi se ... Predizborna zurka mi je vec poznata, ovde sam bio pre 5 godina nije se mnogo promenilo. Salvador je ranije bio prestonica Brazila, a inace je i mesto gde su njvise dovozile africke robove, tako da tu sada ima najvise ...
Heading back to Sao Paulo through Salvador
Leaving the country, I had to a long connection in the Salvador Airport (SSU). This is a really nice airport for not being a huge international terminal. Lots of shopping and good food. They don't let you through security though until 4 ...
Brazil!
... good dinner with some people.(hooray I didn't sit alone) and I found some girls to walk around Salvador with in the morning. I hear that customs in Brazil is going to take a really long time to get through the take pictures and fingerprint everyone. ...
Feliz Ano Novo and Daniel Quits
... around in t-shirts, shorts and thongs (flips), and these guys walk around trying to blend in so the Revolutionary Freedom Fighters of Salvador don't notice. It was a lot of fun traveling with Dan, we both got each other through in once piece despite many ...
The Speedo
... nbsp; Yesterday, I had my second. While in Fortaleza Joe and I bought super tight Speedos, and during Carnival here in Salvador, we sported them. Awesome. The rest of Carnival was incredible, dare I say too much. Last night (Feb ...
Part 2--Chapada Diamantina and Salvador!
... --a day when those of some wealth give bread to those without--``the giving bread`` celebration!!!! --I will expand upon my Salvador experience during my next email-- Yesterday I wandered around Salvador...down to the marina (I met a couple from Sweden ...
The Burbs
... . The map here won't quite accurately portray our actual route, as we had somewhat of a roundabout way of arriving in Salvador. It wasn't until after we had purchased our flight from Manaus to Salvador that we realized that we were going to be ...
CARNAVAAAAL!!! MUITA FESTA Y ALEGRIA!!!
... and for the 4 days thereafter ie Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - it obviously starts earlier and finishes later! Salvador is hot, it's by the beach, everybody plays some kind of instrument and it's brazil!! So everyone started arriving and ...
Two weeks later...
Salvador has been absolutely amazing! It was so much different than I expected. I don´t really know what I expected because I´ve never been out of the country before, but ...
Salvador
... ele havia experimentado o poder sobrenatural do Espírito Santo de Deus. Em um dia conseguimos rodar toda a cidade de Salvador. Quando anoiteceu encontramos com a Jojó. No dia seguinte fomos par Itapuã e aproveitei para visitar Nina Rosa. ...
Semana Santa
Today is Good Friday of Semana Santa (holy week) and we are in expectation of the events outsite our Casa. Apparently a man size scarcrow-like Judas Escariot is going to be hung outside our door. Decorative lights are already around the plaza to show ...
most dangerous city in brasil??
... for a average surf to cure my hang over followed by a free concert. Jan 2nd Mugged for $R2..... a harsh reminder of Salvador's dark side. As Johanna and I headed towards a Brazilian style jazz show, A local interrupted us mid conversation. He was ...
The politics of greed - and new alliances.
... I was pondering staying on longer, getting permission from work to stay, enjoying my professional life here on a show in Salvador.... however, seriously, this is F'n rediculous. We returned home last night to get our money back, and yes of course ...
Carnival part 2: Salvador
We arrived in Salvador after spending the night at the Sambodromo all night. Needless to say. I don't remember the flight because I was asleep for most of it. At the airport, we arranged a place to stay and made our way downtown where the Carnaval here ...
The sweet-bitter taste of Salvador de Bahia
Read original entry with more info and pictues in Paco in America Salvador de Bahía, known as the african capital Brazil, is defintiely a difficult place to calibrate. You either love it or hate it. I think I am sort of halfway between these two feelings ...
Brazil
... than moving through the streets where people are often pickpocketed, robbed, or worse. Note to self: come back to Salvador for Carnivale some day. The food in Brazil is amazing- when I was told that I'd be having a "light" meal I'd instead end up eating ...
Salva last dance for me
... - ooo la la. Located in the Pelourino district of Salvador we were surrounded by beautiful churches and plazas. As Salvador is one of the oldest cities in Brazil we had a very cultured 3 days taking in lots of history. We visited a local market where Luce ...
More beach time
... cool. We met up again to have a late afternoon beer then it was time to head to the bus stop to catch a bus back to Salvador. We were flying out the next morning pretty early so we had to stay close to the airport. After about an hr and a ...
