March 30, 2025
SALVADOR, BRAZIL - Capital of northeastern state of Bahia
Lots of us Residences out exploring this port town of Salvador. From L to R - Angela & Steve ( midlife cruising bloggers), PattiJo, Darrell, Scott, Paulie ( chef from Long Island) Marty ( friend of Darrell's visiting) Bob & Sarah, Callie ( friend of Scott's visiting, JR ( don't think I know what it stands for ?) and Cherrie. Statues were outside the
Carnival Museum. Museum had free entry and had a great view of port and lots of prior years Carnival customs.
The old town of this Port sits up on a hilltop plateau, that is accessed by either a funicular or one of 4 elevators, pictured below.
Once atop, there were several squares with a variety of colorful colonial Portuguese buildings, cobblestone streets, and baroque churches. Sao Francisco Church had stunning gold gilt woodwork. Lots of colorful street art and local artisans too!
Saw a poster of
Michael Jackson in one of the balcony windows and also noticed alot of people wearing
Olodum t-shirts - so had to look up significance. He shot the video
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US here in 1995.
Olodum means
God of Gods or greatest God
and is the name of the Afro Brazilian music group from Bahia, Brazil who played with him in the video. Their music is a blend of Brazilian samba, Jamaican reggae and African percussion. The video was also filmed in the
Rio Favelas that we saw the week before.
