Pousada da Mangueira Salvador

... against the wall away from the window. The following day shows no signs of anything having happened which is eerie but makes me possibly naively hope it wasn&#8217;t someone but something that was shot at. The other 2 shots were on my last night when I was out having Caipirinhas with the Germans and Saffy&#8217;s and we all went silent but it sounded far away so we continued and finished our drinks and then left.<br><br>Whilst in Salvador I went to ...

... accent for the waiter. The salads are varied and delicious and there's several selections of meats. And aways, there are desserts. It costs between $3 and $6 for a huge meal. And you get a free shot of coffee from a thermos on the way out. We only hit one museum back in the Pelo. It was an Afro-Brazilian museum and in the basement there was another one on archeology of the surrounding region. It was nice but the best part was the ...

... hot, sweaty nonstop dancing in a crowd of hundred s of thousands of people. Everyone imaginable is there, from little kids to old people, poor to rich, foreign, brazilien, everyone comes, everyone dances, and everyone dances WELL. FOR HOURS!! apparently 2 million people come to Carneval in Salvador. Unimaginable numbers. In the middle of the parade, we listened and danced to Gilberto Gil singing a song I had listened and danced to off of my ...

... I was in, that was all I needed!. It was AMAZING! AMAZING! (if I type that word 100 times it will not be enough). It was at the right level for me and I kept up fine. At one point he kept building the energy and the moves and the last move was really hard, and I did about half of it, marked the other half and thought ´I´´ve failed´and looked around to see only two people got it, his two best students, and everyone else was scratching their head, not ...

... charade - here in Salvador almost nobody understands spanish (neither english). So this would be a good place for learning portuguese!<br><br>What I love about Salvador - except from the vibrant colors and the people dancing in the streets - are the things you can buy on the streets: Fresh sugarcane juice with a bit of lime is sooo yummy... Or the clear juice of a fresh green coconut... or fresh peanuts cooked in saltwater... :)<br><br ...

... with a large group. Many students have been held up or mugged or robbed, one student even got bit by a kid trying to rob a girl he was with. Crazy city at night. We all headed to a touristy bar in the historic district and met up with a ton more SAS kids there. The entire place was just SAS kids and it was ok. I was pretty bored and wanted to do something more fun for the last night so me and laura-flynn and another guy we'd met decided to find a local samba bar for ...

... decay. Theres an upper and lower city and they have massive lifts that take you up and down. The beaches are quite nice but Im not so sure abut the water! We went sunbathing and were lucky it didnt rain, as the weather is very changable here. We really enjoyed our time in Salvadorand are not looking forward to the very long bus journey south.

... The guy in the SAT (tourist information in Salvador) told us to take the bus to Flamengo, and so we did. An hour's drive later our driver told us we got to Stella Marris. We got off the bus and started scratching our heads on how to get to the pousada. Then we saw a sign for a pousada and thought maybe we'd abandon our reservation and just take this one instead. Turned out it was our ...

... out by a rope which is entirely supported by and lined with órientadores´ who basically make sure that people who are not wearing the ´abadá´, or shirt that is basically your ticket, cannot enter. the route is lined with ´camarotes´, which vary greatly. Essentially they are viewing platforms with a bar and space to breathe. Also have to wear an abadá for a camarote. Everyone gets tehir abadá re-tailored because they´re pretty unflattering and gross ...

... the sea. An active, laughing, merry making, vibrant sea of humanity. Vendors were hawking all kinds of goods including beer (Brahma and Skol the poison of choice) , spirits, jewellery, lobster and some people were cooking tasty food like tofu kebabs on little coal cookers. There were people using machetes to expertly slice open the popular green coconuts for drinking and also a guy with a generator crushing sugar cane into a drink. There was even a Brazilian muscle beach ...