25.07 Salvador da Bahia
Salvador da Bahia
Before coming to this trip I had a deep fixation with both Buenos Aires and Salvador da Bahia. Buenos Aires has met my expectations, which is great because I had really high expectations of it.
But Salvador has, simply put, wowed me!
I had read in quite a few forums and other sites, that after Rio de Janeiro, many tourists thought Salvador to be just okay. For me it’s been the complete opposite.
After the perfect landscape, perfect beaches, perfect bodies, the publicized poverty (“come visit our favela!”) of Rio de Janeiro, I find Salvador to be… human!
I don’t know what it is about this place that just makes me love it…the music everywhere? The people with their mocking smiles as they are going to get you for more money? The Capoeira everywhere? The beaches which do not have the perfect long stretch of white sand, but are still so beautiful? The Africans? (By the way, I so want to go to Africa!!!!!!) The historic city center – the Pelourinho - with its small houses of all colors?
I don’t know.
Probably all of it. But mainly, I think, the music. There is music just about everywhere in this city. Everywhere!
I Love Salvador! Did I say I love Salvador? I really do Love Salvador!
Founded in the 16th century, it was the first capital of Brazil until it was replaced by Rio and then by Brasilia; it’s now the 3rd largest city of Brazil. In Salvador, the Black Africans have retained their culture, and presumably so, they have succeeded in doing that like no other place in the world.
To finish off the first day in Salvador, a bit of Capoeira -
Before coming to this trip I had a deep fixation with both Buenos Aires and Salvador da Bahia. Buenos Aires has met my expectations, which is great because I had really high expectations of it.
But Salvador has, simply put, wowed me!
I had read in quite a few forums and other sites, that after Rio de Janeiro, many tourists thought Salvador to be just okay. For me it’s been the complete opposite.
After the perfect landscape, perfect beaches, perfect bodies, the publicized poverty (“come visit our favela!”) of Rio de Janeiro, I find Salvador to be… human!
I don’t know what it is about this place that just makes me love it…the music everywhere? The people with their mocking smiles as they are going to get you for more money? The Capoeira everywhere? The beaches which do not have the perfect long stretch of white sand, but are still so beautiful? The Africans? (By the way, I so want to go to Africa!!!!!!) The historic city center – the Pelourinho - with its small houses of all colors?
I don’t know.
Probably all of it. But mainly, I think, the music. There is music just about everywhere in this city. Everywhere!
I Love Salvador! Did I say I love Salvador? I really do Love Salvador!
Founded in the 16th century, it was the first capital of Brazil until it was replaced by Rio and then by Brasilia; it’s now the 3rd largest city of Brazil. In Salvador, the Black Africans have retained their culture, and presumably so, they have succeeded in doing that like no other place in the world.
To finish off the first day in Salvador, a bit of Capoeira -
posted by manu at 6:25 AM
3 Comments:
i loved salvador too!! there's a capoeira school in pelourinho, on a top floor. it's neat to watch them there -- did you go? and, if you're still there, you can take a ferry to the island of ixtaparica (about 45 mins) and it's gorgeous, the beach. you have to take a bus once you get off the boat but it's beautiful ...
ok, I'm going to look for capoeira classes in Edinburgh :D
SN - finally didn´t make it there:( but am going for a fokloric show tonight at pelhourinho...hope should be good..the LP says they do a bit of capoeira as well!
As!a....join the bandwagon! :)
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