Morro de Sao Paulo

According to my former plan, my trip was supposed to include quite a busy tour all over the North of Brazil which would take me all the way from Salvador to Fortaleza from where I would fly to Rio. Well, nothing like that in the end. I am realizing that plans change every day in [...]

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The bitter-sweet taste of Salvador de Bahia
Salvador de Bahía, known as the african capital Brazil, is defintiely a difficult place to calibrate. You either love it or hate it. I think I am sort of halfway between these two feelings but probably closer to the second. Lively is a word that gets short to describe [...]

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Lençois is the entry point of the huge Chapada Diamantina national park, called like that cause it formerly contained important diamond mines that provoked an intense search fever in the region. The first surprise, and this time a nice one, was the Real Expresso bus that takes you there: really comfortable. Huge seats that you [...]

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Brussels, 20th of January, 11 pm, a night bus to Frankfurt is the first stop of quite a long trip that should get me to Salvador de Bahia, North Brazil. 21st of Janaury, 4 am, some survival instinct wakes me up and asks me to stand up and look through the window. I do so [...]

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