Salvador Brasil

This travelogue is from my trip to Brasil in 2004.

... a tropical place with brilliant people, smooth Capipiriniha, Acai (Amazon fruit sorbet with cereals), White beaches, Posadas, Samba and the best Karneval of the world in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro!!! We will be back Brasil...our dear Brasil!!!!

Welcome to my story ... hope you find it useful when planning your own trips!!!

... from practicing their own religion. So the slaves mapped their own deities to Christian saints, and worshipped the saints in disguise. Salvador is the cradle of Candomble. Similar to this, we visited a Christian church built by slaves over a period of ...

Where to start with carnival, salvador, brasil....hmmmmmmmm.. well we arrived in salvador after a 33 hour bus ride from rio de Janeiro... we meet two sydney boy alex and barnby as we got off the bus.. they were traveling with literally the clothes on ...

... . Así que ante semejante unanimidad nunca subí o bajé sin el ascensor. Sobre cómo volar desde Buenos Aires, Argentina a San Salvador de Bahía, Brasil (no hay vuelos directos, hay que hacer escala o en Foz do Iguazú o en Río de Janeiro o en Sao ...

... are many Jokes made about the Bahian. One being. `´Never do tomorrow what you can put off untill the day after tomorrow´. Salvador was the most important city to the Portuguese after Lisbon in Portugal. It has a history dating back to the ...

Salvador ...

Salvador de Bahia...l'ambiance Afro-Brésil ...

Salvador Site Oficial: http://www.emtursa.ba.gov.br/ www.bahia.com.br/ www.bahia-online.net/ 1ª Impressao Nickname -> Terra da Felicidade. Cidade de: Ivete, Daniela Mercury, Bell Marques, do Neguinho do Samba, das Baianas, do Trio Electrico, ...

... ; I took the airport bus to Pelourinho, which is where my hostel was.   Pelourinho is the historic/touristic district of Salvador.  It´s packed with hostels, restaurants, and bars.  It´s located in the central part of the city, near the ...

... us backpakers are meant to stay) which is part of the historic centre of what was the first capital in Brasil. Being Brasil´s third biggest city, Salvador is huge. It´s also old, founded in 1549 and was once the former capital. Heaps of grand olde ...

... . Planning three months in 5 countries is So Not a Game!!!Anywho, so here we are...embarking upon our first destination of Salvador De bahia, Brasil. The plan is now in motion!!!! Or so I thought...all the planning that went into this trip, the one thing ...

... Brasil. Happy days. Well I only had two of them left before my flight home anyway. I soon learnt that Salvador is the oldest city in Brasil and was the capital until the mid 18th century. It is the place where the first Portuguese settlers landed in ...

... Paulo- the population demographics here are something like 80% African, a reminder of the history of Salvador. This was the capitol when the Portugese first founded Brasil, and all the slaves brought from Africa were taken here. I found my friends Jaze, ...

... of Bahia. Two days of beaches, huge white sand dunes and George Amado's 'Tiete de Agreste'. Islands south of Salvador Boipeba. Beautiful sleepy little island with deserted beaches that stretch for miles. Morro de São Paulo. Just as we were ...