Marazul Praia Hotel Salvador

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The next day on June 10, having gone to bed at 4am, we rose at 7am to get the Ferry to the islands Itapuia and Frape. We got on the yacht from the harbour with a dozen other people and set sail. A lovely guy called David from Barcelona was also there. It was a gorgeous sunny day with only a little cloud in the morning…enough to turn me into a lobster. Getting to the private Frappe Island was like landing in paradise for a couple of hours. The most unspoilt beach I’ ...

... I'm here for. Day 47 - 22/01/09 I'm going to stop talking about my daylight activities in Salvador because there're non-existent at the moment, so straight into the nocturnal activities. I went to a Bloco with the British guys i met in the previous hostel. They bought the T-shirts which we needed to allow entry into a Bloco. So you may ask what the hell is a Bloco? In a Bloco you basically follow a carnival truck through the streets which is jammed packed with speakers pumping ...

... exhausted afterwards. Its not actually his teeth that are hurt - he dislocated his arm. Dors has been having a hard time too and things are going wrong for her. Its time for all that to end. Enough of that rubbish, it doensn~t have power anymore! All that ill luck can go away, it has done what it needed to do, I needed to move to another place, I~ve moved, so it can go away!!!! Anway, Last night I had the ...

... and Yemanja the goddess of the sea, rivers and lakes. The slaves preserves their religion by attributing the names and characteristics of the Candomblé deities to Catholic saints with similar qualities, and even nominal Catholics now take part in the rituals. Unfortunately, no chicken was sacrificed, nor did they even do anything as bizarre as claiming that wine and a cracker was the blood and body of a Jew and then ritually ...

... des bruns. Peu de metis, pas de noirs. Ou si peu. Les habitants de Brasilia nous replongent dans les ambiances de nombre de grandes villes de plus de 500 000 habitants par lesquelles nous sommes passees. On y ressent une ebullition et une agitation de cite en activite. Le 12 mars, apres avoir parcouru 1500 kilometres au trav**s de cette jungle touffue, nous arrivons a Salvador de Bahia. Etat du Bahia. Situe dans la ...

... At the souvenir store the man there was really funny. I was laughing my head off because he understood very quickly that I understood what he was saying but could only respond in Sim, Nao or Mesmo etc. As he wrapped our purchases he sang to Jazzie and I (quietly, under his breath) about how much he loved us, wanted to take us out, wine us, dine us, how he wanted to win our love.. Ordinarily this would seem cheesy or confronting, but he had the biggest ...

... they would only be able to fit three in). Nowadays a trio is a massive band with a singer or DJ. The float is custom made and towed by a truck very slowly along the street. Surrounding the truck is a roped off area held in place by 'the rope people'. Inside the roped off area is the bloco. To be a part of the bloco you buy a T-shirt at the price of between $100-$1000 and this gets you entry to dance inside the bloco and also use the facilities as following the float ...

... and the walls are completely covered in wallet size pictures of people who had at one time some kind of ailment of one type or another. The plastic representations of human limbs, heads etc are hung from the ceiling in hope that the believed powers of Bonfim will cure whatever particular ailment is associated with said body part. Apparently, believers travel great distances (even from countries across the ocean) to seek aid from the mystical ...

... up north. That’s the kiss of death of course. Whatever’s ‘in’ is automatically out, by definition, and the rule-of-thumb works, too. Nobody hustled me in Rio; in Salvador I was not only hustled but hassled… constantly. Salvador’s beautiful no doubt, very painterly, especially if you choose your angles carefully. Most of that colonial architecture is fast disappearing. But I don ...