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Salvador Slideshow
Salvador
Travel Blogs from Salvador, Brazil
A Friendly Face and Smile
... , dressed fashionably in a smart bright orange top, blue jeans and high heels. "David? Debbie?" A big smile. "Welcome to Brazil! Welcome to Salvador!" At that moment, we knew we would be all right. Tereza is a former exchange student who lived in ...
Irgendwie laesst uns die Stadt nicht los...
Nach unsererm kleinen Abstecher in die wilde Natur Brasiliens, war wieder einmal Salvador angesagt. Einige Klamottenlaeden und Schmuckstaende, die wir noch nicht gesehen und komplett aufgekauft hatten, gab es da bestimmt noch. Zurueck in ...
O Pais Tropical
... artistic scene. Lots of exhibitions and concerts are hosted around the city. We went to an exhibition in the German Institute of Salvador where a few graffiti artists we know were showing their work. One of the best museum in the city is the MAM (Museu ...
Colour and Culture
... were brought and traded in Brazil. The name Pelourinho actually comes from the post where the slaves were auctioned and beaten. Salvador is the cultural heart for Afro-Brazilians and many of their old traditions are thriving. After ...
Carnival in Salvador
Ranked as the best street party in the world, I will be seeing groups such as Cortez do Afro, Daniela Mecury and FatBoySlim. Will be 10days of fabulous partying, samba and Capoeira. Everything captured with a disposible camera so no photos to show you ...
O'Clone
The opening night of the show went very well last night and everyone danced their hearts out. I was really happy with the way it went and was able to do a bit of Directors Assistant role and call the show, take stage notes (what went well, what could be ...
Bye Bye Brazil
... old building and killed an hour online. On my way back I took in the atmosphere of the Pelo and realized that my time in Brazil was almost up. I stopped by the market and bought an African snack from a Brazilian woman. I don't know what the name of ...
Our Introduction to Carnaval: The Camarote
... nbsp; Music is the focus of the celebration; the musicians who play are famous bands playing music that originated in the Bahia region of Brazil (Salvador is the largest city in Bahia). This is the set up: on a 8 km stretch of road along the beach ...
De baai van Salvador
... , hoe is het mogelijk!! Het landschap is groen en heuvelachtig en er is niets te merken van enige invloed van de miljoenenstad Salvador die hier toch echt vlakbij ligt. De eerste middag brengen we genietend in de kuip door, met een wijntje en lekkere ...
final days...
... peacefully before your return home. so i left salvador by myself in search of just that. \ about an hour from salvador there is a town called Arembepe, and there they have this hippy community that pretty much took over the coastline right north ...
Salvador Day 2
Ok, crazy day trying to sort out what to do for Carnivale here in Salvador as so many options and many people wanting to do different things and many places to visit to get all the information. I have paid to go in a Camarote (Grandstand ...
D-Day...
... was in January, while I had a flight out of the same gate with the same airline an hour later to Maceio, a beach town north of Salvador (ten hour drive) and the starting point of my trip up the northeast coast of Brazil. It was pretty rough, and I am very ...
Todos iguais...
... mas uns mais iguais que os outros. Passei a madrugada na estrada e cheguei a Salvador cedo demais - a média distância é a pior para as viagens de ônibus. Ainda fiz uma hora na rodoviária, tomei café e rumei ao centro histórico para caçar ...
Week three and four: Salvador
... another architect friend (where do all these architects keep popping up from!!) to Itaparica, a big island just off the coast of Salvador. On a Monday it's obviously very quiet. We eat some fresh moqueca, a fish dish, and get hussled into a tourist boat ...
MUCHO FIESTA
... friend showed us ALL the fiesta places thtas for sure.a great night even thou we could not speak Portuguese!! not much sleep in SALVADOR in salavdor for easter which was good cos there are churches for at least every day of the year there, lots of ...
Prominent Sexual Organs
We book an overnight bus out of Salvador so it was time to do some tourist stuff before buggering off. We took an elevator down to the lower town and wandered around the tourist market. On the way we met the Kiwi girl we'd first met in Bolivia and a ...
Feeling fantastic...De toxed and on track
... , my dear dear friend, cheersquad and advisor and best mate! Ann-Marie for being an awsome housemate for those initial months in Salvador, it was great and you were so good with my tiredness. Alex Dunmore as my cheersquad from the UK and expert on chronic ...
Brazil's African Heart!
... ! The old Pelourinho area is UNESCO protected and magical, high on it's bluff overlooking the bay Bahia de Todos os Santos. Salvador is Brazil's most African city, where the culture of the former slaves lives on in the food (the street food here is the ...
Churches, capoeira and african drum beats
... . I don´t know how anyone living in Pelourinho could sleep. I bet productivity drops immensely on Wednesdays in Salvador. So I had this amusing thought - since probably 75% of the people following the drummers around were tourists, ...
Carnival
... brought to you by Sandro: amateur Samba dancer. We have established a new headquarters in an (actually) centrally located Hostel in Salvador, in the Historic District of Pelorinho. We're staying in Albergue do Passo, a (compared to other places we've ...
Fernando-Salvador
We hebben een week gevaren naar Salvador. Na een paar dagen zijn we Recife binnengelopen wegens gebrek aan diesel. Daar was op Fernando moeilijk aan te komen (we hebben nog geen vaten en enige pomp was stuk van de haven, op het eiland) en we dachten dat ...
Redistribution of Wealth
The first warning comes from our bus driver as our journey from the airport reaches it's conclusion in Salvador's Pelourinho, the tourist district. He frantically asks around the bus for someone who can speak translate for him. When he's successful we ...
CACHOEIRA - CIGARS AND CANDOMBLE
... eventually managed to get someone for a few hours. We escaped to see the opening night of the famous Salvador carnival, supposedly the best in Brazil. This evening we were going to see the parade of the TRIOS ELETRICIOS, which are like a ...
Chosing what goes on your plate - a final entry
It is with some happyness that I write a final entry for this blog. The official part of the trip, the healing part, is over, and thank godness, work have now allowed me time to just relax and enjoy life. I'll be taking a dance course and also probably ...
Final destination
... of a mix of people and the costumes aren't so glitzy - some people dance barefoot in the streets. Overall I like Salvador better, especially the music - have even heard some that sounds like drum and bass! The dancing is more diverse too - ...
Nuts
... a lot of trouble as people from outside would rush in and attempt to punch people inside the bloco. A lot of people claim Salvador's carnival highlights the difference between the wealthy and the poor by this segregation of the people and feel it fuels a ...
carnival 2006
... the prime of fatboys set, it rained hard for a minute... then the sky turned back to the ¨never rain all year¨beautiful salvador weather. topped off with fireworks and a incredible buzzing crowd, it was potentially one of the best nights our of my ...