Olá Brazil
It was really just one photo that started this whole part of our journey When we began making our travel plans this January, we dreamt of going two or three months to Arizona and New Mexico, to experience the flat mesas, the greasy diners, and the desert highways stretching endlessly towards the horizon. But one day, just by chance, we spotted a photo of a palm-fringed, gleaming white sand beach. The huge waves hitting the beach were spotted with surfers riding the crests. It looked like a dreamlike Bounty beach. We simply had to go there. We found out, that the beach was called Itacare and it was located in the Brazilian state of Bahia. We looked it up, and as the nearest international airport would be Salvador, Salvador was going to be our starting point. And as an extra prize: The time of our arrival corresponded exactly with the last days of the famous Salvador Carnaval. No hotel available At this late point, the masses of peopl...