Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

I found this quote on the internet in regards to Salvador. It is so true of this colourful city. After the dramas of trying to get out of Rio it was well worth the visit. Quote courtesy of www.bahia-online.net

"There are certain countries, 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 in the world. And while Rio, or its fame anyway, tends toward the elegant and sophisticated end of the spectrum, Bahia tends toward the other. Bahia is the land of the drum..."