Everywhere you go in Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, there is music, 24 hours a day. There is a very different feeling to in Rio state, much more African influence. Check out this video of these kids drumming in the Pelourinho. The drums are bigger than them in some cases.
Salvador is beautiful and crumbling with loads of colonial style buildings especially in the Pelourinho old town. But it really is run down and there is a lot of poverty.
But we loved the Art Deco style Lacerda elevator that takes you from the Cidade Alta ( high city ) to the Cidade Baixe ( low city) all for 50 cence.
In the Afro Brasilian museum they show the history of Bahia and the African roots all based in slavery. The tradtional Bahian Aunt dress is as above but nowadays the only ones dressing like it want 5 Reais for a picture!
In fact what we found was people wanted to make a buck out of you wherever you went and it got pretty draining. There are people selling these beads above everywhere and I have no idea how they make any money all selling the same thing. Always though under the pretence they want to chat and be your mate and show you around, then they try to charge you for the pleasure! One thing you can say is the Bahians are very enterprising about making money.
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