Bahia Plaza Resort Salvador

... especially as most of it was spent visiting his sister in law. Mike did try to complain, but apparently it is a fixed price for the day and we did not query it in advance. 14th - Up the elevator in the car park to get to the central street of the historic area this morning. It is a very pretty area in general, all narrow cobbled streets and lots of old renovated buildings from the oldest at 398 years old upto more modern from the early 20th Century. The ...

... jeg er tilbake i Rio om noen dager! Vi har vaert ute i gatene hver kveld, det er helt VILLE tilstander. Mange som er kledd ut, musikk til orene sprenger, og ALLE danser og hopper rundt! Det er stooore busser med artister paa, og med folk som danser paa toppen. Og en haug store ballonger som folk gaar rundt med. Det er umulig aa staa stille :) Mulig vi skal ut i gatene i kveld ogsaa, leiligheten hopper og danser den ...

... and then finally served us, but she messed up our order first just to see what we´d do. In unfaltable portuguese we corrected her and got what we requested... Still, the silence was deafening. Then this really deaf little old man, with two hearing aids and a radio pressed to his right ear, like a little ompa lompa entered yelling (he was deaf right!) and pointing and laughing at everyone. Everyone started laughing with us as we realised he was telling everyone about ...

Read original entry with more info and pictues in Paco in America<br><br>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 ...

... but I will! My favorite project thus far has been our mapping project that was due today. We had to walk around our respective barrios and draw a physical map of any area that we considered to be "our" barrio. As unsafe of a reputation Salvador has, I feel incredibly safe walking around (day or night) in F. Garcia, probably because there are always people out and about doing their do. As I was taking notes and meandering around ...

... in what is only the next state up! Just a small demonstration of the immense size of this country. We were also unlucky enough to be caught in an extremely long tailback of what turned out to be rubber-neckers just on the city limits. So it was a swift exit from the bus once we got the rodoviaria, and straight into a taxi to Pelourinho ...

... out and enjoying watching the sun going down. <br><br> <br><br>I wandered around a bit to get a feel for what the Salvadorians do on their beaches (as the ones we visited this morning were almost empty) and there was PLENTY of posing going on. <br><br>Mostly by the local ...

... and hot pepper. Very interesting dish as the shrimp still had their shells on and were the size of my pinkie nail! But the fried cake was good, but i guess anything fried after a few drinks is amazing!! I then choose a desert fried coconut cake that was almost worse! But we had food in our stomach and were ready to start enjoying the nightlife! We got very lucky and Italian guy who spoke Portuguese sat down and started talking to us with his ...

... and music and more music and lots of people and noise, very very hectic and chaotic! But very colourful and a great experience! Tuesday rolled round and we headed to the main parade route again this time to see Fat Boy Slim play. Again, it was another five hours of pure mayhem and madness with lots of dancing and the rest that goes with carnaval, mainly all the Brazilians being fascinated with my white skin and blue eyes! I ...

... There was a huge air extraction fan that sucked the smoke into a vent in the ceiling. No smoke could be smelled outside the perimeter of the pod. We met some Israelis who were heading to the music festival. The flight took an hour and 40 minutes to reach Salvador Airport in the middle of the night then we were stung for $50 for a taxi 30 kilometres away to reach the beach suburb of Barra. We had Santa gifts for each other. Kate was given some slow aged, 18 year old ...