Saturday afternoon we landed in Salvador! After some confusion where our flight to Salvador was treated like an international flight… I still don’t really understand, but we made it. We had our driver, Ricardo, waiting for us and we were off. He was very excited that I spoke some Portuguese and we had a little chat on the way to the pousada. He was really nice and friendly, showed us the beaches on our scenic drive, stopped at the taxi gas pump, meg and I are pretty sure he just wanted to show us off! He even gave Meg a necklace! No worries Tim.
The Pousada was very beautiful and Slavadorish, with bright colors hand painted art and flowers everywhere. We were right by the historic district and took no time in setting out to investigate. We wondered the old cobblestone streets, had a wonderful lunch of olives, salami, and cheese ha ha, it was a great view of the bay though…. Saw all the old run down churches, and enjoyed sitting and listening to music coming from some side street as we sipped brazillian cold beer and ate boiled peanuts.
We went and saw this Bahian dance where there were all these people dressed like the different gods that the old African culture believed in. It was so neat. There was a band dancing and crazy costumes. There was one guy that did some amazing tasks with fire. They also danced capoira which is one of my favorite things to watch. Its like dance fighting where there are a lot of flips and such to a rhythmic song. They also gave us a taste of samba. It was so fun to watch.
Afterwards, we went to a neat pizza place for dinner and sat and talked. It was really neat and we enjoyed it. I had this whole conversation with Meg about how they never serve pepper on the table, and then at dinner they had a salt a pepper shaker out with the napkins, so Meg put the salt on her food then went for the pepper. At first as she was shaking it nothing came out, then all of a sudden ten toothpicks fell on her plate. Her surprised face was priceless. It was great.
Sunday we were off to Bonfim church, one of the most famous churches in Brazil. It was built by slaves in there free time and still holds mass today. We caught the end of mass, bought the famous ribbon bracelets from the cutest old woman, and made our three wishes. After seeing the church and the beautiful view we tried to find a place our hotel recommended for lunch. We instead went on our own personal walking tour for a couple hours, but it was beautiful. We also made it, after long walks and random taxi rides, to the famos ice cream place, it was worth it.
That afternoon we enjoyed a long time of shopping and wondering around the beautiful cidade velho. We got stuck in a huge crowd for a concert, but made it through back to the hotel and settled in for a couple card games and ordering pizza. We were ok being the lame gringas!
Monday we had Ricardo pick us up for our taxi ride to the airport! It was a great trip and I really loved Salvador. But was excited to show Meg Florianopolis!
The Pousada was very beautiful and Slavadorish, with bright colors hand painted art and flowers everywhere. We were right by the historic district and took no time in setting out to investigate. We wondered the old cobblestone streets, had a wonderful lunch of olives, salami, and cheese ha ha, it was a great view of the bay though…. Saw all the old run down churches, and enjoyed sitting and listening to music coming from some side street as we sipped brazillian cold beer and ate boiled peanuts.
We went and saw this Bahian dance where there were all these people dressed like the different gods that the old African culture believed in. It was so neat. There was a band dancing and crazy costumes. There was one guy that did some amazing tasks with fire. They also danced capoira which is one of my favorite things to watch. Its like dance fighting where there are a lot of flips and such to a rhythmic song. They also gave us a taste of samba. It was so fun to watch.
Afterwards, we went to a neat pizza place for dinner and sat and talked. It was really neat and we enjoyed it. I had this whole conversation with Meg about how they never serve pepper on the table, and then at dinner they had a salt a pepper shaker out with the napkins, so Meg put the salt on her food then went for the pepper. At first as she was shaking it nothing came out, then all of a sudden ten toothpicks fell on her plate. Her surprised face was priceless. It was great.
Sunday we were off to Bonfim church, one of the most famous churches in Brazil. It was built by slaves in there free time and still holds mass today. We caught the end of mass, bought the famous ribbon bracelets from the cutest old woman, and made our three wishes. After seeing the church and the beautiful view we tried to find a place our hotel recommended for lunch. We instead went on our own personal walking tour for a couple hours, but it was beautiful. We also made it, after long walks and random taxi rides, to the famos ice cream place, it was worth it.
That afternoon we enjoyed a long time of shopping and wondering around the beautiful cidade velho. We got stuck in a huge crowd for a concert, but made it through back to the hotel and settled in for a couple card games and ordering pizza. We were ok being the lame gringas!
Monday we had Ricardo pick us up for our taxi ride to the airport! It was a great trip and I really loved Salvador. But was excited to show Meg Florianopolis!
I loved that old lady! I didn't love toothpicks on my pizza.
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