Overland travel is not always as it seems here. We learned this the hard way, when the 4 hour trip from Salvador to Morro de Sao Paulo turned into a 7 hour trip. There are many options for making this distance: a high speed boat will get you there in 2 hours for about R$75 [...]
Known as a weekend getaway for wealthy Salvador residents, Itaparia island is quiet and comfortable on a summer weekday. We needed a break from the city, and the 35 minute ferry ride was an easy answer. We left around mid morning, spent the day enjoying the beach and were back at the hostel late in [...]
Celebrate life, the good and bad. On Tuesday nights in the Pelourinho, it’s all a party- rich, poor, young, old, locals and tourists- for one night, all seem to convene around a shared sense of understanding life’s hardships and finding the simple elegance of laughter in between. Here, there is music, dancing, and food everywhere [...]
Salvador is our first unhosted stop on our journey, and thus our first experience staying in the dorm room of a hostel. We were lucky to have booked a great place that we both feel really comfortable at. It is a great start to what will certainly be a year of dorm rooms and shared [...]
