Salvador’s midnight Samba beat

Our next destination was Salvador in the far north of Brazil, far closer to the equator and guaranteed sun?? well that was the plan!

Salvador holds much heritage from the time the African slaves were shipped to Brazil to build and work for the Portuguese who ruled at the time, much of the colonial building is Unesco world heritage.

Much of this heritage can still be seen today and the city holds definite Afro Caribbean feeling, from all angles at all times there are people playing drums and people dancing in the street.

Salvador has a very bad reputation for crime and violence luckily we were to experience none of this.

We arrived on Tuesday which is always party night in Salvador,  a stage was being setup right outside our hostel window and I mean right outside!!

We were duly advised to take nothing out with us we didn’t mind loosing! Watches, wallets, cameras, jewellery….

So we stripped down to the bare essentials and headed out to join the party, everyone was singing and dancing in the street and the Caprinihas were flowing once again.

Next stop Itacare!