Salvador de Bahia - practical information and summary (English)

It is incredibly difficult to summarize our experience in Bahia. So many things happened… :). Bahia is in 70% blackmen state of Brasil. When we came to Porto Alegre we felt like not any more in Brasil ;). European traditions of ancestors (especially German ones) are here very present. We remember Bahia as a place filled with beautiful beaches, coconut trees with ruthless sun (burned skin). Salvador gave us a taste of southamerican big city: with astonishing colonial buildings and favelas. The cultural diversity of Bahia is incredible: Baianas, acaraje (food), caipirihna, caipirosca, caipirisima, capoeira, axe-music, carnival, Portugees churches and ceramics (”azulejos”). The most valuable experience is though people that we met and because of privacy we will not comment on, just saying we are very grateful and we are simply in debt we will try to pay off some day. Thank you! For me I first felt the original surroundings of playing reggae music - beach, palm, laid-back atmosphere :)! Brasilian people seem to be very helpful to each other (i.e. a bus driver waits patiently till someone gets on the bus), they are showing “ok” all the time, which is fairly possitive ;)! A lot of crafts are shown on the streets… About dangers in Salvador: we were threaten only once when we were waiting for a bus at the bus stop, in one of the biggest squares in the city (Campo Grande) by a guy with a knife, but apart from this situation everything else was ok. We were very lucky to see the city in “carnival’s clothes”: streets decorated with Mestre Bimba, berimbaus… Still we have to rember that Brasil is a huge country, we saw a little of Bahia and Porto Alegre, which differ a lot… We are really impressed - some things are so similar to European and some so different :). We are heading to Rivera, on the Argentinian boarder and later to Buenos Aires. Wish us good luck!
Hostels: the cheapest one (15 BRL/pers.) and situated in the heart of Pelourinho, but can be noisy and not very private: Beto Residencia, Largo do Pelourinho, no 14, ph. 55 71 9964 1812.
www.alberguedosanjos.com.br, Pelourinho, dorm. 25 BRL
www.saojorgehostel.com, Pelourinho, dorm. 25 BRL
Our favourite camping (maybe the only one near Salvador): www.campingsalvador.tur.br. 12 BRL/pers.

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