Village Novo Salvador

... no where near as bad as it had been. Another Posto(S9.19.10.51W40.34.16.6). 11th - Still further today, it is difficult to realise just how big Brazil actually is until you start driving. Once again similar scenery, but today we had a distance of about 100 kms when the road became very pot-holed as against only a few holes.Tonight we parked in a commercial truck stop about 30 kms out of Salvador(S12.50.09.03W38.24.42.68).

... jeg er tilbake i Rio om noen dager! Vi har vaert ute i gatene hver kveld, det er helt VILLE tilstander. Mange som er kledd ut, musikk til orene sprenger, og ALLE danser og hopper rundt! Det er stooore busser med artister paa, og med folk som danser paa toppen. Og en haug store ballonger som folk gaar rundt med. Det er umulig aa staa stille :) Mulig vi skal ut i gatene i kveld ogsaa, leiligheten hopper og danser den ...

... there taking advantage of the crowded situation. Thats kind of a funny moment, you feel it, you turn around and find yourself face to face with the guy who just tried to rob. You look at him, he looks at you and you feel ...

... visa wich in my case is the J1 visa. The J1 visa is a temporary work visa that will allow me to work there for 3 months but with that visa I can stay for 4 months. In the 4th month I cant work therefore it would be for traveling around US, It's interesting for US Government because it means that every exchange worker has time to spend every penny eanerd working there living the value of its own productivity for US economy. About my destiny inside US. I have not ...

... they are saying - funny that. Buses have toilets and air conditioning and dvds (in Portuguese) but they cost $10 per hour of transport instead of $1 for 2 hours Cars stop at traffic lights. And even sometimes pedestrian crossings. And there's even a countdown to light change so you can work out how much time you have to finish putting on your mascara before it goes green. The ...

... going down very quickly. If only all airlines had the same attitude.

We were through security and into the lounge in no time and only had 30 minutes or so to wait until boarding.

We spotted that the gate had changed (a few didn't and very nearly missed the flight) and the shuttle bus took us out to the plane which was brand new. Again, very ...

... the bars had loud music playing. It was a lively little town, with an African vibe. We spent a while looking for a restaurant, poor Mike couldn't walk fast as his ankle is still painful. We ended up at a restaurant school called Restaurant do SENAC, which is in a restored colonial mansion. The staff were very friendly and the service was excellent. The food was different, lots of seafood in palm oil but the coconut pudding was delicious!

... and third days I took an overnight trip to small towns. I enjoyed it because we were a small group going into small towns where there are not many tourists a year. Along the way we stopped at a squatter camp, the small museum where independence was gained, a ceramic village and the oldest black sisterhood - which some credit the extensive conservation of history in the area to as it goes as far back as slave days. We stayed in a small guest house, road ...

... set *nd d*nced *t the front for two hours with our Aussie fl*g. We even tossed *n Austr*li*n be*ch b*ll *round for *while, the l*ds were impressed with our effort. The m*in floor w*s * gi*nt pl*yground for pixies *nd p*rty funsters to pl*y with toys like poi, stilts, juggling pins, tightrope hul* hoops *nd cont*ct juggling b*lls. We s*w some l*dies perform * sword spinning show *nd fire m*chetes were juggled. There w*s *lso * l*rge he*ling *re* with non-stop ...