| SALVADOR DE BAHIA, PARADISE REGAINED |
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On our way into Salvador strapping, bare-chested youths, so ebony black all light flung filters out individual features, cluster at corners, in doorways, chatting, laughing; playing football along dusty alleys. Red, sun-baked brick buildings tumble down hillsides higgledy-piggledy, this urban sprawl providing a raw-textured background to their blatant sensuality. Everywhere I look people so wondrously alive and vivid amid seascapes and escarpments of staggering beauty I wonder why I never knew of the place before. After the indecision of leaving Lencois, I can hardly believe an equal paradise exists. My travel-weary eyes soak up the delights this new Eden promises.
Beautiful Pelerinho |