Olodum Salvador Bahia Brazil

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Salvador, Brazil's First Colonial Capital...

In Bahia, in the beginning...
...there lived the indigenous people now commonly referred to as "Indians" or American Indians, and we can follow human recordings as far back as a people called the Gé. The Gé were pushed out by a people called the Tupinambá, and these were the people who were here when the first Europeans arrived (the coastal village of Olivença, Bahia remains home to a number of Tupinambá to this day). Then the Africans were brought in as slaves by the European Portuguese. etc. The rest is History today.

Salvador (the city was generally referred to as "Bahia" until well into the twentieth century) sits on a spit of land sticking south south-west into the Atlantic Ocean. And although it sits well within the tropics at a southern latitude of thirteen degrees, it receives a refreshing sea-breeze which seldom falters until the wee hours of the morning when things have generally cooled off anyway. The city sits on a huge bay, a Baía de Todos os Santos (the Bay of All Saints), and the topography is predominently hill and valley.

There are certain places...
...the names of which fire the popular imagination. Brazil is one of them; an amalgam of primitive and sophisticated, jungle and elegance, beating drums and luscious jazz harmonics, there's no other place like it on earth. And while Rio, or its fame anyway, tends toward the elegant and "sophisticated" end of the spectrum, Salvador -- Brazil's first capital -- tends toward the other. This is the land of the drum and many surprises.