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Exploration, trade, and haggling, both on the ground in Salvador and online... More to come! |
Candomblé
Acessórios de candomblé are easy to find in Salvador. There are two shops (each with an annex) dealing in such located on the ground floor of Edifício Themis (the Themis Building), on the southern side of Praça da Sé in Salvador's Centro Histórico. These shops are an interesting walk-through even if you're not planning to buy, something in the vein of mercantile museums.
Travel Guides
Cristiano Nogueira won the North American Travel Journalists Association's (NATJA) 2005 Grand Prize for Travel Writing for his knowledgable and irreverant insider's (Cris is a Carioca) guide, Rio for Partiers. The book won out over writings in the National Post, the National Geographic Magazine, American Heritage, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Morning News, Travel Savvy, Lifestyle + Travel, SmartMoney, the Hanford Sentinel, Travel + Leisure, and a lot of others.
Now Cris has a companion volume, Salvador for Partiers: a Visual Travel Guide to Salvador, an excellent choice for anybody wanting a knowledgable guide (with maps), sized to be conveniently carried around. Cris's Salvador for Partiers website is here. And if you're planning on visiting Rio, or just want to read about the place, the website for Cris's award-winning Rio for Partiers is here. If you're here in Salvador, there's a good chance that you'll run into Cris somewhere like Beco de Gal. If you do, tell him for me that Pardal says "Qual é! (What's up!)".
Fiction
The interior of Bahia is home to the great sertão, a dry, hard-scrabble area where people work laboriously to eke out a living from an uncompromising and unyielding land. But as hard-scrabble as the sertão is, and as far away as it may seem, it isn't nearly so far away as the real-estate pictured in the photograph above (hover your cursor over the photo if you'd like to see where it was taken).
What does this place have to do with Bahia? Thomas E. Thorpe is what. Mr. Thorpe, in addition to being an astronomer, is the Project Manager for the Mars Surveyor Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and is therefore responsible for flight operations for the Mars Surveyor series of missions). And as it this weren't enough, Tom Thorpe is also a writer of fiction. The latest addition to his work is a tautly plotted and well-researched historical mystery entitled Night Wind to Bahia, set around the time of the Malê Revolt of 1835. Mr. Thorpe has a website where this book and others in his Darmon series may be purchased.
Land in Bahia Interested in a piece of land closer to home? Property Salvador Bahia.
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