Di Lorenzo Wonder
January 6, 2006 Tired of a winter that never seems to end, my friend James and I decide to go to Salvador de Bahia in search of summer warmth, the adventure and pure fun. We left at 6:00 am and arrive in Bahia to 19:00 local time after a quick stop to Nadal. Now pitch dark we decided to go immediately to the famous Pelourinho, the historic center, sure to hospitality 'in posada any. The square and 'crowded and there we meet a Brazilian who says he has a brother in Florence and we already feel' at home then we let ourselves be guided by him in the first posada available (of course he makes a percentage). The room 'rather shabby and dirty but my stomach turns when the boy, to show us pity the bubbles on the skin due to the virus at the withers. Iv How do I start there is no' bad. We decide to go out for dinner and end from "Axego", an excellent restaurant run by a certain Manoel dos Santos Pereira, facing Rua Joao de Deus. The menu 'and' very varied and every budget: from 20 reais for a Feijoada up to 40 for a moqueca de Camarao. Fortuna wants then that under our balcony walk in the parade of Banda Dida ', a group of 10-15 women fitted with various drums that give the atmosphere an atmosphere of gaiety and color.
January 7, 2006
party as soon as possible and we decide to aim just to the north, destination Praia do Forte, a fishing village turned resort with all the comforts of the case. After a journey of about 2 and a half hours we arrived at the entrance and points the first pousada that inspires us. We enter and welcome the owner, a Brazilian woman married to a Swiss Montreaux (so 'is called the pousada) that accommodates a very nice room. Finally a nice place! After a quick shower we go to the beach, dine quietly, and we dive. The beaches to the north are called "Natural Swimming Pools" because 'the waves break to more' than 200 meters. off, creating a deep side 50/60 cm. hot water and crystalline. What a place!! In the evening we have dinner in a restaurant and place
cis place at restaurant "Do Sousa" meeting place for all young people of this region. In the port selection, but do we overcome the obstacle of a tip to 20 reais buttafuori.Il usually live band enjoys playing music and Bahian samba, while we concentrated on finding two sweet creature willing to cheer a long vacanza.Dopo Research Department and tormented us realize that we are the only tourists
present and that the Brazilian did not seem very willing to settle.
January 8, 2006 After a good breakfast carefully prepared by our friend, we meet with the German tourists who offer us a ride to the south, so 'that in about two hours we are Farol do Barra, the southernmost tip of the endless beach Bahia. We rely on the first pousada and we dive into the water. The beach is not 'full of life and more' and 'crowded since today' Sunday. I find, however, a group of Brazilians who accept the challenge Italy-Brazil comic mach a lively beach-soccer. A dream come true '! In the evening we decided to look for a good local restaurant and unexpectedly we meet Giovanni, an Italian by more 'than 20 years in Bahia, which tells us the secrets of the city', the contradictions, the withered and pleasures. We dine and we sponstiamo to ll'Aeroclub, a meeting place for many before moving. This is an outdoor mall in the evening alternating between ristostoranti, small shops and nightclubs. We decide to move the Tropicana, disco not far managed, then they say, by Italians. The entry and '15 reais and Upon your entry you searched. A great band, orchestra loose bodies of these beautiful girls, while we are committed to usual caipirinha. We recognize, however, 'realize that this is a night club in all respects and that all' for sale. We decide that the abient not 'what we wanted and we go home.
January 9 2006
We leave for Morro de Sao Paulo. Take a catamaran departing from Water sports of Bahia (50 reais per person) and do a meeting there
upset 'the rest dela trip: Loredana and Savino know in fact, a couple on tour in South America by four months. The catamaran tackles the waves in a shameless way 'I'm sick and trescorro 1 hour 10 min. in the bathroom to vomit. Arrived in the 'boys from the island equipped with wheelbarrow masons take charge of our luggage and take us to our bungalow the sea. In fact we have booked from
Massimo (Pousada Chez Max "), a Neapolitan by 20 years on the island that welcomes us warmly and we wish you a Buob stay. Said to be the most pousada 'beautiful Morro (150 reais per night) and certainly deserves all of them is money. Even has a Roman chef who makes amazing pizza with wood-burning oven! The island 's so composed: 4 beaches, the number 1, 2, 3 and 4, well it is not' the ultimate fantasy. The country is can be reached by various routes and steep breaks down around the central front of the church which hosts the majority of island life. Let's take a plunge and go out for dinner and we meet Lorenzo Savino and choose a nice restaurant.
to decide the "Jamaica" run by Argentines. food and 'excellent prices and very contained. Savino tells us to be an actor, and being able to live a pension, he decided to spend his life traveling and enjoying life ... What a terrible life is not it? The evening goes by fast and we set an appointment the next day.
January 10 2006
The first and second beach are where you are having fun, while 3 and 4 are the most 'jennies. Therefore, since the first part of the holiday had passed
least so excited, we decided to spend the pools of water surrounded by nature and tranquility 'of the fourth. By chance encounter
Dodo ', an Indian who works for an Italian woman who has 10.000 square meters of land within the island. There has to be our guide
and drags us into the dense forest that starts at the edge of the beach: The colors are incredible and villas that are hidden by the dense vegetation are
dream. In the evening we meet Lorenzo Savino and their posada decidiamio and to stay for dinner from them. The boys prepare
Vermegliano of the grid (a white fish highly regarded in Brazil) ... we bring the Italian prosecco with which we celebrate the birthday of
Lorenzo (33 years), but the highlight of the evening comes when we reach Vampeta (former international and world champion 1998). We offer you a drink,
take some pictures and let him go. Then we end the evening in the club 87, a bar-restaurant on the second beach that offers live music and entertainment
to no end.
January 11 2006
After breakfast we set off towards the Imperial Gamboa, a beach on that island for "Costa do Dende '" famous for sludge straordiari who you are. There can only be reached in two ways: on foot, climbing among the rocks or by boat from Morro do Sao Paulo. We choose the first option and the result is' awesome. The landscape you see and 'fact from the story: outstanding color, inlets from fairy novel, What a sight! The beach of Gamboa and 'a sea created by the collapse of the mountain that dominates the island, and the earth, oozing water, thus creating' Falls faghi multicolored. Together with Lorenzo Savino and then begin to roll over and cover the ground, and once dry, we dive into the sea to clean up. The result is' a smooth and polished. Little more 'out there is the "Monkey Beach" a bath for the more' fashionable, with sun beds and bungalows that have nothing to
envy the Twiga of Forte dei Marmi. The beach and 'beautiful, probably the most' beautiful I've seen so far. In the evening, inevitably exhausted cose not to overdo, and spend the evening to chat with two girls we had met in Argentina
afternoon.
January 12 2006 E
'the last full day we have left the island and decide to spend it on the second beach. The day trasmorma in nothing more 'than a usual
Italian Riviera with umbrellas and chairs all concentrated in a few tens of meters. On the positive side and 'know that girls are much more' easy. With 15 reais give us 2 chairs, umbrella, 2 chairs, 2 fresh coconuts and we bathe the feet igni 30/40 minutes; Not bad right?! At sunset we organize more 'a beach-soccer mach 7 against 7 to 9 to 10 that ends an hour after us very busy, just finished the inability' to continue due to dark. In the evening, crippled by a sore foot incredible (damn football), we go to the disco of the fort, where they tell us to be a spectacular feast, the entrance and 'of 10 reais each: the disc and' on all three floors' opened with a splendid sea view. A band strikes up the inevitable rhythms sambeggianti while I buy you a drink for the whole company of Dodo 'so that' kind had been with us a few days before. Around 2:00 AM the group broke up and gives way to music more 'European way' the night extends infinitely.
January 13 2006
we get up late and in spite of ourselves we have breakfast. We still do a lot of gifts and so 'we should hurry to rush to plunder the country and all the shops for tourists. To return to Bahia rent a lightweight (235 reais per person). The pilot and 'so' kind that makes me sit beside him. The flight takes little more 'than 15 minutes and soprettutto I avoid the nightmare of seasickness, so that' I was so hurt leg. In line at the check-in we are all Italians who have spent their holidays here and there 'to Bahia, we all seem addicted to the calm and serenity' to tackle the row and small inconvenianti usually at airports. sperismo that hard ... The return to Milan and 'traumatic: -5 degrees and Solot general neuroticism. The city 'seems more' gray 9 days ago, and it sounds awfully prophetic.
What I 'was this trip? The fruit and the colors are the two things I'll remember 'long, the women are beautiful but it' s difficult to disentangle from those in prostitution. The beaches and the sea are much more 'beautiful and fragrant of the Caribbean and the costs are very low.
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