We flew into Salvador with relatively few hitches (by our standards). The only bad thing that happened was the bus to Rio airport drove straight past us on Ipanema beach after we had waited for 45 minutes, resulting in an expensive taxi ride to make our flight.
Salvador was an amazing town; it was like landing in Africa. It just so happened that we arrived on the biggest night of the week – TUESDAY (of course) and the whole town comes alive. We had been walking around for 5 minutes when we heard pounding African drums coming from around the corner. We followed the sound and came across an African drum troupe banging out some crazy rhythms in the middle of a street.
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| The Pelourinho |
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| Getting acaraje (African snack of coscos, cheesy stuff, prawns, veges) and getting fat |
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| Cool cat |
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| Streets are filled with art |
Our hostel also happened to back on to a free open air concert which played reggae, Brazilian and African fusion music. The streets were packed with people, food stalls, caipirinha stands (5R) and roaming drum and dance bands, in scenes which I imagine were in anticipation of Carnaval. We met a couple of Aussie girls and an American dude who we hung out with and wandered the streets. Awesome night.
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| Setting up for the concert, good view |
At one stage during the night, an old drunk man approached us and started dribbling an imaginary soccer ball as one of the drum groups left the street. It was hilarious to see this smashed old man with no teeth and no T-shirt dancing around with no care in the world. Magic.
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| Watching Milan v Spurs in the Champions League. Amazing |
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| View from the bar |
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| Tense |
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