My trip to Salvador
Wednesday, 26. August 2009, 12:53:21
Hello my good people! How are you? Hope you all have had good times.
I had a wonderful week, travelling, visiting many places and enjoying beaches, historical places, the family together!
Very nice indeed!
I have to make small posts because there is a lot of nice places and histories to tell!
Do you want to follow me in this trip? Nice! Let's go start then!
We travelled last August 15th. We got there at night, almost 11 pm and we were so tired that we didn't want to get out of the hotel. The other day, Sunday, sun was shinning and the day was great! We so, thought about going out and meet the city.
I have to say that Salvador was the first city created in Brazil. The year? Formally 1549, but people used to live there like a village since the portuguese came to Brazil. So, you can imagine how much History this city has.
The first place we went, of course, was a small beach near our hotel. Very small, but cozy. We went there just to take pictures. Because of the rocks, we couldn't have shower there. Salvador, has in all its shore bigs rocks. And because of this, many ships wrecked in this city. The most famous castaway known is a portuguese called Diogo Álvares. He was almost 'eaten' by the indians, but fortunately he had a gun (and of course the indians have never seen that) and when he shooted, the indians got afraid and so he escaped. After some time, he married with Catarina Paraguaçu, a local beautiful indian.
The funny is that the district where we were in the hotel is right in the place Diogo Álvares arrived in his ship. Today this district is called Rio Vermelho (Red River) and we saw the beach where "Caramuru" was found!
Well, let's see some pictures:
On Sunday, we went to visit Pelourinho. A historical place where the slaves lived and in a public square they were punished in order to 'be an example' to the others. Until now, there are many houses and the place is very old. You can smell history, pain, suffering there.
There is a big square where to the left, you can walk and see many museums, restaurantes, stores. To the right, it's not allowed to walk. It's dangerous. The most poor people live there and most of them are the grandsons of the slaves, they don't like tourists walking freely. Maybe because it's still a big injury to this people.
We visited some churches, we walked through the small streets and then we went to another part of downtown. The Elevador Lacerda. It was built by a rich farmer, owner of many slaves and he was the onwer of this whole area. As it had a big mount he needed to make something to ease the transport of his cargos. Of course, at time, the government bought it and made an 'upgrade'.
We visited the local market too, but it was not a nice area to see. Not to us. Many 'scary' people. You know. Downtown is downtown everywhere. Port area is the same everywhere, in other words, you know what I mean.
We came back to the hotel after a whole day walking, visiting and taking pictures. I uploaded a whole album of our trip and if you want you can take a look there here
To know more about the History of Salvador you can take a look here
Hope you have fun!
I had a wonderful week, travelling, visiting many places and enjoying beaches, historical places, the family together!
Very nice indeed!
I have to make small posts because there is a lot of nice places and histories to tell!
Do you want to follow me in this trip?
Nice! Let's go start then!We travelled last August 15th. We got there at night, almost 11 pm and we were so tired that we didn't want to get out of the hotel. The other day, Sunday, sun was shinning and the day was great! We so, thought about going out and meet the city.
I have to say that Salvador was the first city created in Brazil. The year? Formally 1549, but people used to live there like a village since the portuguese came to Brazil. So, you can imagine how much History this city has.
The first place we went, of course, was a small beach near our hotel. Very small, but cozy. We went there just to take pictures. Because of the rocks, we couldn't have shower there. Salvador, has in all its shore bigs rocks. And because of this, many ships wrecked in this city. The most famous castaway known is a portuguese called Diogo Álvares. He was almost 'eaten' by the indians, but fortunately he had a gun (and of course the indians have never seen that) and when he shooted, the indians got afraid and so he escaped. After some time, he married with Catarina Paraguaçu, a local beautiful indian.
The funny is that the district where we were in the hotel is right in the place Diogo Álvares arrived in his ship.
Today this district is called Rio Vermelho (Red River) and we saw the beach where "Caramuru" was found!Well, let's see some pictures:
On Sunday, we went to visit Pelourinho. A historical place where the slaves lived and in a public square they were punished in order to 'be an example' to the others. Until now, there are many houses and the place is very old. You can smell history, pain, suffering there.
There is a big square where to the left, you can walk and see many museums, restaurantes, stores. To the right, it's not allowed to walk. It's dangerous. The most poor people live there and most of them are the grandsons of the slaves, they don't like tourists walking freely. Maybe because it's still a big injury to this people.
We visited some churches, we walked through the small streets and then we went to another part of downtown. The Elevador Lacerda. It was built by a rich farmer, owner of many slaves and he was the onwer of this whole area. As it had a big mount he needed to make something to ease the transport of his cargos. Of course, at time, the government bought it and made an 'upgrade'.
We visited the local market too, but it was not a nice area to see. Not to us. Many 'scary' people. You know. Downtown is downtown everywhere. Port area is the same everywhere, in other words, you know what I mean.
We came back to the hotel after a whole day walking, visiting and taking pictures. I uploaded a whole album of our trip and if you want you can take a look there here
To know more about the History of Salvador you can take a look here
Hope you have fun!
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