Blue Tree Towers Salvador

Time to set off once again, the roads today were very much the same as yesterday. The scenery is a bit more varied, as well as tropical forest we also came into a lot of Pampas grassland and then further on we came to the eroded hills, or tepuis, that we had seen in Venezuela. These extended from giants the size of Roraima too small fingers only a couple of hundred feet wide. We are now parked for the night in another Posto ...

... onsdag) vaaknet en haug med lodne nordmenn, en engelskmann og en canadier opp leiligheten i 15-16.00-tiden :) Det eneste vi rakk den dagen var aa kjope bussbilletter, og spise litt mat! Saa var det aa hoppe i senga igjen.. I gaar (torsdag) tok jeg og Lene bussen fra Salvador kl 08.00, og satte kursen mot Rio De Janeiro igjen :) Saa i dag (fredag 27.02) er vi her :) i ¨Lychliga Gatan¨ igjen, paa New Wave Hostel! Deilig ...

... and so neat! Plus I´ve made a heap of friends here so I only need to turn around to get a hug and a kiss and questions about how my training is going and whether I am having a good time. Today we saw the guy who was our waiter at dinner , a few nights ago, and a niceman. He saw us downtown, jumped into my arms and then took us to where we needed to go. So nice. Dors is in with the Capoerista crowd and hung out with a few different Mestres and has made friends there.Me ...

... from there you can see an important area of the city down hill. The Pelourinho is also the cultural heart of Salvador with its museums, capoeira schools and music clubs. Parades with people playing drums go around here most ...

Arrive in Salvador at night and the airport is nice and modern which makes a change from all the tiny rural bus stations we ahve been through. Roads into the city are modern. Big place clearly. We get into the old part of town, into our modest but nice Pousada. Pleasant surprise as the price is lower than we had thought - BONUS !! Breakfast on the terrace is great as the place is on the hill looking over the harbour and we have some spectular views ...

... to make my way to the guest house, where i passed out for a few hours. For the night, i reunited with 2 fellow travellers from Florianopolis, and went to a Folkloire dance show. It turned out to have 5 different types of dances including the Samba and Capoiera. The Capoeira was everyones favorite part and they just did a bunch of kicks and backflips througout the show. Everyone had incredible athletic ability and could jump ...

... and pretty tasty. <br><br>Katie had some very weird 'waffer thin' sushi, while I had some 'yaki soba' which looked suspiciously like Super Noodles! <br><br>Still, it was good to have something different for a change. Oh, and I also had a kiwi caipirinha, which was a ...

... Argh! But we waited and then were treated to beats and singing and chanting. The instead of the temple was decorated in green and white banners and in one corner was a massive cake with a warrior like figure on it. We were told that women sit on one side and men on the other; a concept I do not like, but accepted. The ceremony we saw was for a god represented by the blue color (not sure the name though.) There was singing and dancing as the ...

... I started a petition that people signed agreeing to not use the internet while the game was going on so it would be fast enough to stream the radio coverage of the game. We got over 300 signatures in about an hour. The dean still wouldn't let us play it on the radio for some reason. So we went straight to the top, we found the COO of the Institute for Shipboard Education (SAS's parent company) and explained the situation to him. He logged himself onto my computer ...

... lots of live Dj sets. We h*d * b*ll here *nd you would often find the Isr*elis *nd Arnvishn* *nd us d*ncing till we dropped then lounging *nd drinking in the deck ch*irs with the umbrell*s for sh*de. Those two items were our best surviv*l tools. We g*ve them to the Isr*elis when we left. The Pir*te St*ge w*s the sp*ce purely devoted to electronic music- minim*l, house, electro-house but more often th*n not, Progressive Tr*nce which we feel h*s * funkier, merrier ...