Today is the day trip, departing the bus at 8 o'clock with all the French, under the leadership of Hector guide.
During the journey he recounts with passion the country's history and that of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil's first capital.
The Portuguese arrived in 1500, most imported plants (mango, palm, coconut), the country knowing only the cashew, cassava, acerola and cotton. There is no record of the culture of original inhabitants, Native Americans, because they knew that clay for the construction of houses and stone for tools. The Portuguese then brought everything, even the stones to build churches and course of disease, benign in Europe, which decimated the local population.
This bay was very crowded, especially by Tupinaubas and Tupinikis. The original languages have disappeared. The government then gave attention to preserving the last Amazonian Indians. The first inhabitants were cannibals (he had to eat his enemies), the first Portuguese bishop has finished in the pan. The Jesuits converted the Indians to Catholicism, and European and Portuguese sailors were quickly mixed with the daughters of the country, freer than the peasant of old Europe. Vespucci drew the map of Brazil, he named each of the holy city of the day. He arrived here on 1 November, and the bay was called "Bay of All Saints."
1500: Century Wood
1600: Century of cane sugar (with the slave trade that went with the Brazilians were reluctant to work hard)
1700: Century of the Gold Rush and precious stones, mainly topaze
1800: return to agriculture: coffee and tobacco.
Salvador has 2.6 million inhabitants, its population increases from 60 000 inhabitants each year, that is why we are experiencing enormous suburbs with favelas and bars HLM.
first stop in the district of Barra, the lighthouse and old Fort Santo Antonio da Barra, as we round a tropical heat. To right and left tracks. Then the bus drops us off in the upper town, to the mayor in baby blue and the elevator down to the port. Walk through the cobbled streets, lively squares and shops conditioned. Of colonial homes with colorful facades, steep alleyways, capoeira dancers and weavers of mats and coconut sellers. We visit a church baroque colonial entirely gold leaf, and a Franciscan monastery with its walls covered with tiles imported from Portugal.
Lunch in a colonial restaurant, before free time to stroll, have a drink or eat a coconut sorbet, shopping and museums. We descend to the ancient port with a cable car, stroll to the market (mercado modeled), the streets are blocked by demonstrators from protesting against the high cost of transport.
Back to the bus to 17 hours for a journey of about two hours to return to the hotel.
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