Salvador

En route to Salvador, Brazil

We drove through some pretty scenery of rolling pasture as we made our way north.

 Plus of course a few vochos like this blue one...

 ...and one with  special paint job parked in a car park as we drove past and I was just lucky to have my camera in hand.

 Brazil has 7,000 kms of beautiful sandy beaches most of which w=are empty.

 It was a hot day so we stopped at a popular waterfall to cool off. The river was calm...

 bt the waterfall was a very popular place to splash about in.

 We stopped at Itacare for a camp on the beach in idyllic surroundings. Me up a tree.

 A view along the beach.

 A view back to the shore.

 The pretty post card picture harbour.

 And then we reached the ferry port to cross Baia do Todos os Santos, Brazil's largest bay to reach Brazil's third largest city of Salvador on the southern tip of the peninsular that creates the bay, a crossing  of nearly an hour.

 A view of the city shore line from the ferry.

 We found our hostel and unloaded the truck which was going to be parked in a truck park fot=r the next few days whilst we explored Salvador. Salvador used to be the capital of Brazil for more than two centuries before the sugar trade dwindled and Rio became the capital so it has a lot of colonial architecture but the only photo I took on the first night was of this former covent, now an old folks home.