Hotel Villa Santo Antonio Salvador

... my Brazilian cousin Luana about meeting for dinner. <br><br>As soon as I left the guys I felt more nervous - guys were making comments (it's not advisable for girls to go about alone at carnaval time) and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to find a taxi. Just as I was weaving through the crowd and wondering if I should ask for directions in a hotel, I spotted John, the American guy I went out with on my first night in Rio! He was with his friend Stu, who I hadn't met before as ...

... He also would run up to the stage, a good 20 metres away, and grab the microphone and say in Portuguese, this next song is for my beautiful girl dancing there... and then run back and serenade me some more on his pink recorder. A local guy with his daughter, in her saturday best in a purple dress and gold shoes and handbag, joined us. He seemed lovely and struck up a conversation with Dors and I about life and samba. Dorina bragged that I~m a dance teacher and he ...

... this big place. This might be hard to believe but two old guys like Pedro and me got in with a half price student ticket. A few beers after we were enjoying a very good regaee and we even managed to (finally!) socialize ...

... experience we decided to stay close to home the next day. Home was the Barra 15 outside of the hubbub of activity and one of the only safe neighborhoods close to the city where there are hotels and restaurants and beaches. The Barra is the first beach community from downtown. Each morning, we took walks down the beach in one direction to a mini-Christo statue and the other, to the old fort ...

... get to some falls. The jungle trip was cool, we all got onto old Argentine army trucks and were driving through some old military trails to get to where our boat ride would begin. We all got onto these little hybrid speed/whitewater rafting boats and took off up Iguacu river towards the falls. We actually took the boat under the falls, like 10 times. It was so much fun. You couldn't hear or see anything because there was soo much water gushing into the boat and soaking ...

... 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) - une fête d'Olindum Malheureusement nous ne voyons pas de cérémonie de Candomblé (religion afro-chrétienne)....les seules cérémonie que nous trouvons sont exclusivement destiné au touriste, bof.

... ccoming in at about 12 quid. Oh well...<br><br>After that gastronomic disaster we checked with the guy at the hostel if that sounded right, or if he thought we'd been ripped-off and he squirmed a bit and said that yes, that could be the case because it's quite expensive to eat there. <br><br>NO KIDDING, I WISH THAT HE'D TOLD US THAT EARLIER! ;) <br><br>We went ...

... was almost an hour away because it was being held in a small stadium outside Bahia because a couple months ago the big stadium had some stands collapse and a few people died! (don?t worry this field had concrete benches!) So it was a much smaller scale then it would have been, but it was still so much fun. The game was between Bahia and some other team Pelous or something. Obviously we were rooting for Bahia and I bought a jersey on the way in and my friends and I went and ...

... and communication is really difficult. Finally we arrived at this place called Boi Preto. The travel agent on the ship said that it was the best place in Salvador and was $30 and we trusted him. Sure enough we got there after the $20 cab ride and it was $37 plus drinks and desert so it was about $47 per person... BEST $47 I HAVE EVER SPENT IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. I ate like a ****ing champion. The way a Brazilian buffet works is that you start with the "salad bar ...

... Reiki, medit*tion *nd m*ss*ge *long with other ther*pies to enh*nce the energetic, physic*l *nd ment*l bodies. Plus, * the*tre showing comedy *nd glob*l hum*n movement fe*ture films. There w*s * sp*ce for children too with tr*mpolines, * jumping c*stle, workshops, g*mes *nd toys *nd * commun*l kitchen *re* with cooking *nd nutrition workshops. So, with *ll this to explore, we cert*inly d*nced *nd dr*nk too much, didn´t get much sleep *nd enjoyed every minute. Gre ...