Tour Guide: Salvador, Bahia

A writer, explorer, and knowledgable guide to Salvador, Cachoeira & the Recôncavo, and up and down the coast...

Email bt_paris@yahoo.com, Telephone 55 (Brazil) 71(Salvador) 8812-4576

This is Ben Paris, on his way back from the island of Paty (see further down, and that's pronounced pah-TEE) in the Baía de Todos os Santos (Bay of All Saints). Originally from New York City, Ben has been living in Salvador for most of the past 16 years (he's married to a Baiana), and he knows the city inside and out, like the proverbial back of his hand. He's also an inveterate traveller* into the Recôncavo, the region around the bay which was the birthplace of Bahia's culture.

(*Usually in search of stories; see Bennet Paris in the author's index of Fiction, Volume 14, Number 2, along with, among others, Heinrich Böll and Joyce Carol Oates.)

Themes

The City
Real Life in Bahia
Candomblé
Culture & History
Afro-Bahian Cuisine
Music & Dancing

Places

Praia do Forte
Cachoeira
Santo Amaro & Environs

Imbassaí

Diogo
The Islands

If you're looking for somebody to get you where you're going and then tell you about it when you get there (or even tell you where you ought to be going), Ben's your man! This is something he enjoys doing! Plenty of tour guides will get you to the places in the guidebooks, and Ben can as well. But he can also get you to places the guidebooks never knew existed!

The Island of Paty

Email him at bt_paris@yahoo.com, or call him at 55 (Brazil) 71(Salvador) 8812-4576.


Pai Raimundo in the front window of his house/restaurant

Dinner in Santo Amaro?  There's one restaurant you won't find unless you're taken there -- situated in the back garden of Pai Raimundo's house, close to Santo Amaro's Praca da Purificação (Pai Raimundo is pai-de-santo of a caboclo house of candomblé).  Regional food, moderately priced.... and if you can't find the place on your own you can always ask Ben how to get there.


Pai Raimundo & Santo Amaro's best-known daughter


  

   
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