Pousada Solar Dos Deuses Salvador

... market in the lower part of the town - Salvador is on a really steep hill and there's a huge lift that connects the upper and lower areas, as well as a winding road. When we decided to head back up, a couple of the boys wanted to walk so we ventured uphill by road, although my instincts told me it was a bad idea as the roads were scruffy and pretty deserted. This feeling was corroborated when an ancient, toothless old lady shouted down to us from her window in thick ...

... blond girlfriend, the next with their german blond girlfriend, the next with their americana. They all want to come to Australia, so try it on with me and I laugh and tell them what they said to me some other man told me the same five minutes ago,... and he really meant it too! When I´m ready for a bit of action I´ll just wait five minute and see who turns up. Eventually I win their laughs and I´ve made a friend! Last night a capoerista Adelino ( a gentle giant ...

... some brazilian people, two sisters we were hanging around with till we headed home after a very tiring day. The day had been so amazing and than the new robbery attempt did not spoil it. This time it was a bunch of ...

... ricocheted off the buildings and cobblestones causing everyone within earshot to bounce and sway. We were transfixed by how this chaos produced such an organized "melody" -- but somehow they did. In fact, they did it while marching and throwing their sticks twenty feet in the air as they led their gyrating audience around town like pied pipers. What a show. We were so worn out by the ...

... so he can show us around. He was very friendly.  I literally took 600 pictures in the last 3 days. Many of them seem repetitive but each one is so awesome I can't bring myself to delete any of them. However, some of my favorite pictures came from the bottom of devil's throat. The water was actually super clear and there was one fall in particular connected to devil's throat that kept producing a rainbow at the bottom. It looked like something out of a movie, but as ...

... the raising of the spirits began to intensify. Suddenly some of the dancers began falling into trances and had to be caught by the other people as they toppled over. The intensity of the spirits began to increase more and more. I closed my eyes and nodded my head to the music. I was floating along to the music and was feeling realxed UNTIL ... I opened my eyes and was jolted back into my body. I was ...

... ccoming in at about 12 quid. Oh well...

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.

NO KIDDING, I WISH THAT HE'D TOLD US THAT EARLIER! ;)

We went ...

... them and he tried to help get them away from us while we kind of ran. It was hard to lose them because we couldn?t leave the main street because then we?d be on a small alley where there weren?t a lot of people which would be much worse then where we were in the first place! When we thought we had finally gotten rid of them there they were again!! (they weren?t really doing anything, just saying random stuff and being sketchy, but we knew it could lead to worse). Luckily ...

... for a while, had a few Skols (the Brazilian Beer) and listened to the music. Then at 11 the party began. By this point, the roped off are was packed, and the music was blaring. The mob would get pushed along by the security guards so I felt like I was getting dry-humped up and down to roads of Salvador. It was amazing. All the girls on the ship were told not to go out without a guy or two since some men tend to get a little overly excited, so Dave, Will and I were ...

... ped pods m*de from lights th*t you could d*nce inside of *nd * good sprinkler *nd sh*de system (no w*ter restrictions here). The m*in floor Dj box w*s m*de from b*mboo *nd resembled * for tiered pyr*mid. The two side p*nels surrounding the Dj st*ge were psychedelic im*ges of Krishn* *nd G*nesh. This st*ge is where everyone (*ll dressed in white for pe*ce) spent New Ye*rs Eve *nd we p*rtied *mongst endless fireworks *nd cre*tures of the night. We were still there ...