Discover Salvador, Brazil


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Charming. Magical. Enchanting. All words used to describe Salvador — a gem of a city located on the northeast coast of Brazil. Come fall in love — whether it's with the rich history on the cobblestone streets of the city's historic center, the white sand beaches, or the warm, friendly smiles of the people. You'll discover the city through the eyes of Jen Santos, a US citizen who has chosen to make Salvador her home. She remembers all too well what it's like to want to learn more, so much more, about this magical city and hating feeling like she was missing out because of the language barrier. This book is written for the first time visitor so you have all of the resources you need to make the most of your time in this city of enchantment. What you’ll find in the guide: • Help choosing the best time to visit — based upon price, weather, and your specific interests • Monthly weather patterns • Month-by-month calendar of major holidays and festivals • Pre-travel information, including visas, vaccines, power adapters, and essential apps • Best options for getting around town, including the all-important airport transfer • Day-to-day essentials, including how to use our ATMs, grocery store and pharmacy information, how to get a phone chip, public wi-fi, and more • Public safety information — basic do's and don’ts • Information about local customs and greetings, tipping, and the souvenir scene • The perfect 4 days — a detailed itinerary for the on-the-go traveler • The must-try food and drink of Salvador — we have a food scene all our own here • Top tips for going to the beach, including what you should expect to pay • Guides for the five most popular neighborhoods for visitors • The all-time top 10 things to do in Salvador — both well-known and off the beaten path • More than 50 color photos • 5 custom downloadable neighborhood maps with points of interest and safe and not-so-safe streets identified • Links to dozens of helpful websites and blogs • SPECIAL FEATURE: Pelourinho walking tour — a custom walking tour for the dozens of points of interest in the city's historic center. Includes opening and closing hours, admission fees, and if English-language resources are available Jumpstart your trip planning and be prepared to be enchanted. Click the buy button and get your copy today. Discover Salvador, Brazil is formatted specifically for eBook with the on-the-go traveler in mind.




Brazil - Salvador and its region


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Discover Salvador, the key to Bahia's treasures! South America. Brasil. Wow! Bahia ... Salvador de Bahia. Just the name makes you dream, doesn't it? Just hearing it, you can feel the exotic wind inviting us to leave, the fire of samba transporting us to the famous Carnival, the land of bossa nova. Do you feel it? So pack your bags with us and fly to South America in this great city which was the first capital of Brazil: a city that vibrates to the sound of parties, drums and music beautiful sandy beaches sea water at 25°C all year round delicous dishes that will make you melt nice and colorful crafts and low prices strong>We are Cristina & Olivier Rebière and travel the world since we are students. We have visited more than 50 countries and love finding solutions to travel at affordable prices and maximize our budget to discover hidden treasures during our stay, just like you! Prepare and live your holiday ... differently! In fact, in this innovative guide Voyage Experience, which is a vitamin supplement to classic tourist guides, we share with you our passion for travel and our crush for Salvador de Bahia and its region. You will find a plan of visit, the churches, the districts and various culinary delights to taste. We will also go to the beach to soak our feet in the Atlantic which, far from the frost of the northern hemisphere, has tropical temperatures. A true happiness which, we hope, will make you also fall in love with Salvador! So if you do not know where to spend your next holidays, why not have a trip in Brazil, which is not that far at all? What will you get with this guide Voyage Experience ? 30 photos 2 tourist sections Special budget tight Trip tested and validated A gastronomy section for you to cook some recipes back home :-) a travel lexicon A FREE UDEMY COURSE to learn our proven tips & tricks to Travel FREE without ruining yourself What other people say about this FREE course (2000+ students): "I felt like the course was a fantastic refresher! Even though I've traveled before, usually within the US, and some of the tips and lectures seemed common sense to me, it has inspired me to begin my research again and reinvigorate me to experience the world. Thank you." - James Stewart "The course is very helpful & beneficial for new travelers who are interested in visiting new places in the world. I've enjoyed the organized sections & the detailed information." - Kamel Halabi "very informative and knowledgeable on travel" - Rudra Toulon "This was an informative course with actionable information." - Sheryl M Malzkuhn So, are you ready for ALL OF THIS?! Yes? Buckle up and Bon voyage! Cristina & Olivier Rebiere




Greater Than a Tourist- Salvador Bahia Brazil


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Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist- Salvador-BA, Brazil by Nadine Carneiro offers the inside scoop on Salvador. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In these pages, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books. Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination. Inside this travel guide book you will find: Insider tips from a local. Packing and planning list. List of travel questions to ask yourself or others while traveling. A place to write your travel bucket list. Our Story Traveling is a passion of the Greater than a Tourist book series creator. Lisa studied abroad in college, and for their honeymoon Lisa and her husband toured Europe. During her travels to Malta, an older man tried to give her some advice based on his own experience living on the island since he was a young boy. She was not sure if she should talk to the stranger but was interested in his advice. When traveling to some places she was wary to talk to locals because she was afraid that they weren't being genuine. Through her travels, Lisa learned how much locals had to share with tourists. Lisa created the Greater Than a Tourist book series to help connect people with locals. A topic that locals are very passionate about sharing.




Bahia


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When Brazilians are far from home they dream of Bahia - of its powder-fine beaches and reef-ringed islands; of waterfalls in the Diamond mountains of the arid sertão, of cobbled streets and pastel-painted houses in Salvador. They long for capoeira and the rich spicy smell of Bahian cooking; the rhythms of axé and the colour of the world's largest carnival. "Você tem que ir." they say. "You must go." Bradt's Bahia shows the way to the World Heritage sites of Salvador (which has the largest collection of colonial baroque in the world) and the Discovery Coast rainforests; to the best of the beaches around the resorts of Itacaré, Porto Seguro and Trancoso; and beyond to the unspoilt island of Boipeba; the northern Linha Verde near Mangue Seco; and the little-explored coast of Sergipe and Alagoas states to Bahia's north.




Feeding the City


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On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay decisively influenced the outcome of the war for Brazilian independence from Portugal by supplying the insurgents and not the colonial army. Richard Graham here shows for the first time that, far from being a city sharply and principally divided into two groups—the rich and powerful or the hapless poor or enslaved—Salvador had a population that included a great many who lived in between and moved up and down. The day-to-day behavior of those engaged in food marketing leads to questions about the government's role in regulating the economy and thus to notions of justice and equity, questions that directly affected both food traders and the wider consuming public. Their voices significantly shaped the debate still going on between those who support economic liberalization and those who resist it.




Lunar Discovery


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What lies on the dark side of the moon could change the course of humanity forever. When a Chinese rover discovers an alien technology on the dark side of the moon, it is up to Richard 'Rock' Crandon and his NASA team of scientists and engineers to devise a way to return before the Chinese and Russians. Forced to deal with bureaucratic oversight and a complex team of personalities, Rock Crandon pushes his team to their limits. With pressure mounting, the world is pushed closer to conflict and war as the NASA team finds itself seriously behind in the newly initiated space race. The future of mankind, its ideological and technological advances are at stake, as the world's super powers race to discover what lies on the dark side of the moon. Who will get there first, and at what cost?




National Geographic Traveler - Brazil


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The world is open for travel and people are looking for new ways to experience a destination. This title makes Brazil accessible to every traveller. It provides a game plan for visitors interested in taking in the best sites around the country, with a focus on active experiences that give travellers behind-the-scenes possibilities.




Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil


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Brazil’s Black population, one of the oldest and largest in the Americas, mobilized a vibrant antiracism movement from grassroots origins when the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s. Campaigning for political equality after centuries of deeply engrained racial hierarchies, African-descended groups have been working to unlock democratic spaces that were previously closed to them. Using the city of Salvador as a case study, Kwame Dixon tracks the emergence of Black civil society groups and their political projects: claiming new citizenship rights, testing new anti-discrimination and affirmative action measures, reclaiming rural and urban land, and increasing political representation. This book is one of the first to explore how Afro-Brazilians have influenced politics and democratic institutions in the contemporary period. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.




The Discovery of America by the Turks


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A Penguin Classic Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants—“Turks,” as Brazilians call them—who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.




DK Eyewitness Brazil


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Your journey starts here. Featuring DK's much-loved maps and illustrations, walks and information, plus all new, full-color photography, this 100% updated guide to Brazil brings you the best of this captivating country in a brand-new, lightweight format. What's inside? - full-color photography, hand-drawn illustrations, and maps throughout - easy-to-follow walks, tours, and itineraries - our pick of Brazil's must-sees, top experiences, and hidden gems - insider tips and information: when to visit, how to avoid the crowds, where to capture the perfect photo, and more - the best spots to eat, drink, shop, and stay - an area-by-area guide covering each corner of Brazil, from São Paulo to Salvador, Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon rainforest - expert advice: get ready, get around, and stay safe Now in paperback and printed on quality lightweight paper, our Brazil travel guide has been redesigned with you, the traveller, in mind, so you can take it wherever you go. Touring more of South America? Look out for our DK Eyewitness Travel Guides to Peru, Argentina, and Chile and Easter Island.