We spent a couple of days exploring the historic centre of Salvador, the Pelourinho, which was the centre of the slave trade where slaves were brought from Africa and sold and possibly also punished on a steeply sloping cobbled square. The city was the capital of Brazil for 200 yrs til the bottom fell out of the sugar market in the mid 17 century when the British started to grow it in the west indies. The British also scuppered the later rubber industry when a Br...

We arrived in Salvador about 10pm sunday night after a 7 hr flight from Manaus with a touchdown in Brasilia. Unfortunately our pick up failed to materialize. As is the way with Brazilians someone stopped to help us when they saw us waiting and in the end the help desk got the local tour agent on the phone who didnt have us on the list but was very apologetic and told us to take a taxi and they would sort it out in the morning. Had this been England I suspect we w...