How about visiting the Bahia?

The Bahia is a state of Brazil. It has very nature, cultures and a population of 14.080.654 funny people.

Its songs and sons are so hot, they funny everybody. Its foods are delicious, its nature is so beautiful.

It’s a state has very wonderful cities and places, like Salvador, Porto Seguro and Chapada Diamantina.

The Bahia is a state of many touristic places, but let’s begins by Salvador.

Did you ever visit the Elevador Lacerda and the Pelorinho? Did you ever buy anything in the Mercado modelo? Would you like to pray and know elegant and historic churches?

Well, let’s do a tour by Salvador and know these beautiful places.

 

Elevador Lacerda

The Elevador Lacerda is an elevator used to transport people.  It has 72 meters high. It was built by Augusto Frederico de Lacerda.  To build it, Augutto Frederico used pieces of steel imported from England.

How can I get there?

The Elevador Lacerda is next to Mercado Modelo on Cayru Square.

It’s good visit it, because there you can see the sea and others things.

Mercado Modelo

The Mercado Modelo is a big Market where you can buy some craft products of the Bahia. That’s way you can buy many gifts to give your friends and family when you come back home.

Well, Elevador Lacerda is one of the five more visited tourist points in Salvador.

It is opening every day. It opens on 9:00 A.M to 07:00 P.M.

 

Farol da Barra

The Farol da Barra is a lighthouse.

In the seventeenth century, the port of Salvador was one of the busiest and most important of the continent, and had to assist to the boats that arrived at the Bay of All Saints looking for Brazil wood, sugar, cotton, tobacco and other items, and because this necessity was built the lighthouse.

I like to see it in the night. Well, it is beautiful all the time.

Itapuã

It is beautiful beach, with a calm sea and bright water. It’s a important tourist place of the Salvador.

In Tupi Guarani (a traditional Indians language) Itupuã means “stone that snores”.  Why “stone that snores”? Tell one story that there was a stone snored, in the Itapuã beach, and this became the name of the beach.

Dique do Tororó

The Dique do Tororó is an artificial lake.  Its lake has 110,000 meters cubic.

Dique do Tororó is a place where the people usually went to supply their water, and because it, the people have the culture to sing this song:

“I went to Tororó,

To drink water and I didn’t find,

I met a beautiful woman,

That I left there…”

What can I do in the Tororó?

In the Dique do Tororó we can do many things. We can fish, we can rowing, we can do yoga, etc.

 Abaeté

The Abaeté Lagoon is one of the most popular postcards of the city. A curiosity is that the water temperature is different in several parts. Its deep is approximately 5 meters. There, you can find orchids, fruit trees, like guava and cashew. The Abaeté is an Area of Environmental Protection and it is one of the biggest ecologic recreation centers of the northeast.

What more can I find there?

There you can find nature and cultural extractives like the Music’s House, restaurants, crafts shops, playground and 17 kiosks sell coconut and typical foods. 

In the Music’s house, there are documents that tell the Bahia’s music story, videos, pictures, books and musical instruments.

Pelourinho

Pelourinho is a name of one Salvador’s neighborhood. It’s stay in Historic Center of the city, it has one colonial architecture of the Portuguese Baroque.

The name Pelourinho refers to stone column located in the center of the square, where the criminals were exposed and punished.

In the Pelourinho you can find goods restaurants, music and read or buy some books in the Jorge Amado’s house.

Well, come to visit the Bahia and know wonderful places and cultures.

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Christian Nunes.