Northeastern Brasil
This time we lost two pieces of our gruppone travel (Ilaria committed to Vasco Rossi chase from north to south of Italy and Luke alas committed instead to work ...) but we gained Stefano, companion to this wonderful journey in the northeast of Brazil.
We arrive in Recife and transfer it immediately to
Olinda where to stay in nice Pousada Peter, German artist crazy that after he moved luck who knows where. Graça Pousada in the know, a woman of a thousand stories that we scarrozza here and the.
Olinda is beautiful: one of the first Portuguese settlements in Pernambuco, is an open-air museum, between the rainforest, banana trees, coconut trees and much green. Churches, music for the road (the typical Forrò), capoeira and much happiness: this will be a first taste of a brazil surprising.
The views of the bay of Recife and 'really rob the ocean wind,
Olinda (Heritage of UNESCO) is an ideal place to relax and live in the northeast rather quiet. Let the days to wander among the profuno typical food, the ocean breeze, the sympathy of the people and some dip in the pool.
We leave reluctantly to head towards
Olinda Porto de Galinhas Graça legendary thanks to the car trip lasts two hours, past the impressive favelas of Recife and the green fields of cane, a green and intense ever seen. Arrived in Porto: tourist town but we have some luck ... it is low season, deserted beaches, few tourists around and fabulous prices.
The name has a sad galinhas Origin: after the abolition of slavery in 1888, the market for slaves continued for a long time. When the ships came from Africa, is spreading the word of a load of chickens of Angola to mask the obscene trade ...
Here we spend all day teaching of the sun, the pools generated by incredible natural motion of tides, turning the buggy in the midst of white sand dunes and coconut palms to loss
watch .... and we SOLIIIIIII!
We know the people hospitable and friendly, housed in the Pousada Canto do Porto: sea room, hammock and dream landscapes.
As often happens, we leave with nostalgia even Porto de Galinhas and we head coach to Maceió in the state of Alagoas.
Step off the viviamente but if people can
Maceio is even more fun, exciting and wonderful than in other places. The city is very nice, the beaches are wonderful, the food is excellent. Carlitos know that there propina two trips out of town: the first towards the beaches to the south where Stephen will be attacked by a terrible monkey and the second around the freshwater lagoons, including houses of fishermen and of Coqueiros fazende immense.
Coconut and sugar cane are the two engines bearing the economy of this small state to be discovered, to live in peace, where the pace of life is punctuated by music, forro, and smiles from the customary and phantasmagoric caipirinha.
We are delighted by this lifestyle both relaxed: a people unknown and entertaining you with an axle that involves kindness ... we wonder how we will riabituarci in Europe.
Now we're in ecstasy, and we lack the bit louder
Salvador!
We arrive in
Salvador in the early light of dawn after a frightening levataccia: the appearance of Arthemisia Hotel ago but will shiver compensated
and how!
Vivavemente advice to all those who have not yet stewed to read my story, to stay at least one night in your trip to El
Salvador at the Hotel Arthemisia. Located in Praça da Sé in the heart of Pelourinho a few steps from Elevador Lacerda.
Here we know a great woman: Jail, a book open on one thousand stories
Salvador, its people and crush of a thousand issues of this extraordinary city.
Salvador is hardly descivibile: a Brazilian city, but very little African where the flurry of drums, the songs and the colors will disturb the soul. Spend wonderful days in the streets around a colorful feast (the feast of Sao Joao), admiring the white vestitoni the mae de santo, participating in an impressive ceremony canomble admiring the vaulting of a school of capoeira and relax in the sun on the quiet beaches of the island of Itaparica.
The Terreiro de Jesus, beating heart of the historic center, will become some of our family: after a few days we all welcome, as they say goes and if we visited this or that ..
Then comes the feast of Sao Joao and throughout
Salvador and raised bubbling during long nights, dances between songs, cakes of many flavors and lots of caipirinha.
I am not here to remind the thousands of people encountered, all sbandati a little, a little crazy but fun.
Following the visit Praia do Forte with the beautiful center of preservation of giant sea turtles and
Morro de Sao Paulo: south island, very characteristic, beautiful beaches and relaxed environment.
Now we must leave and I told only a small percentage of the thousands of emotions that
Salvador has left us. Jail and the Hotel will remain always in our hearts.
Good trip to Brazil at all
Até a proxima
Andrea