Friday 14th February 2014
We couldn’t leave Brazil without seeing Bahia. We split our stay in Salvador in half with a trip to Morro de São Paulo. The first part was spent in Pelourinho in the Centro Histórico which was a lot to take in, so full of striking contradictions; poverty and wealth, colour and darkness, restored and dilapidated, tourists and locals. We enjoyed our time in Pelourinho. We ate well, slept well, went to a concert, visited art galleries, made friends with local artists. There were street parties in the evenings for what seemed like no apparent reason.
We spent the second part of our stay in a less touristy part of Salvador, closer to the coast. Without the colonial architecture the place looked more ordinary but more at peace with itself as a result.
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