Mweeer–aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!! That roar from the young woman in a deep trance will always stay with me; it certainly symbolized our trip to Salvador da Bahia! For our last night in Salvador, we went to a terreiro, or Candomblé hall. It was a last minute plan–during our trip to Mangue Seco, Flavia, our Salvador hotel’s owner, [...]
I will write more later, but I have to gush over the tropical garden we got to visit that is behind the ice cream shop here in Mangue Seco. The owner’s daughter gave us the private tour: several varieties of mango, star fruit, pinha, hibiscus, coconut palms, even a pomegranate tree. But the star was [...]
Sunday night we joined Daniela Mercury´s bloco for Salvador da Bahia´s Carnaval. It was wild–more details on that later. I think we joined the best bloco. The way Carnaval works is that you have these trios, which are like floats, where the singer or band performs. On the trio, which is a jerry-rigged semi-truck, are [...]
Just a quick update from Brazil. Carnival is intense and crazy and festive beyond words, but it is an experience to have once. Maybe just once! We made a quick escape to Morro de Sao Paulo, which was lovely. Tuesday we escape to Mangue Seco, a small village about three hours by car from here. [...]
Today we leave for Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. It’s a trip to which we are looking forward immensely. We will be there for Carnival, and decided to book the trip last May. We visited Rio in 2004, and would love to visit again, but we decided to visit Salvador to explore its African heritage–and supposedly [...]