Month: August 2015
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Projeto TAMAR
Praia do Forte used to be a village mostly dependent on fishing and hunting. The only other source of income where some plantations that weren’t very environmental sound as well. That started to change, when Projeto TAMAR (TArtarugas MARe, sea turtles) built a station at the old lighthouse. Today it is one of several along…
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Bathing excursion to Praia do Forte
One of the “attractions” in Praia do Forte are the shallow pools one can visit at low tide. They are pretty much a natural bath tub. The water is warm and there are no waves crashing in. But unlike in a bathtub you have companions. Small crabs and fish like to stay in the pools.…
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Praia do Forte
The next town over from Itacimirim is Praia de Forte. This town lives and breathes tourism. Even if only 30 years ago it took a whole day to get there from Salvador. And you would have prefered to go by horse. Because the roads… Well today there is not much left of the old fishing…
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Visiting Mangue Seco
Having just arrived at the place we were already approached by a guy that wanted to sell us a buggy tour in the dunes. Funny part about is: There is only one company selling those trips on the whole island. And you don’t actually can go very far without one of those sand crawlers. Ah…
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Trip to Mangue Seco
So for today a trip to Mangue Seco had been planned. This little Peninsula got famous through a book by Jorge Armado whose adaption as a telenovela was shot here in 1996. Even if it’s just 137 km according to Google maps and it thinks you should be there in 1.5 hours you better don’t…
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Itacimirim
So I moved to Iticimirim. This time it wasn’t a hostel but a pousada where I had my own room. Why there? Because my friends Bernhard, Michaela and Lisa-Marie stayed there for their 4 week vacation. We had decided to meet up before I left Germany. Actually they where the ones that gave me a…
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Pictures of Pelourinho
I was about to move today and I hadn’t taken the time to take some pictures of Pelourinho. So I was a little bit behind and had to get at least a few for memories. After I sleept most of the last day and right through the night I felt a lot better and took…
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Change of plans
Today I was supposed to meet up with the group from Salzburg to have a nice home cocked lunchn at Valdos mums, do some more training and then catch a bus to Jakobina. After the night I had I wasn’t in a condition to do any of that. Coke and some white rolls with salted…
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Food poisoning
This post is a little bit sad and not at all about a nice topic. So you might want to skip to the next post. After I came back to my hostel I went straight to my emergency pack of Immodium and the toilet. In hindsight the Immodium might not have been the smartest idea.…
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Training in Salvador
We were supposed to meet up at half past five to go to and train with a local group. What I had failed to ask was where it was actually supposed to take place and how to get there. So I was on time in only my Training clothes. No money. As it turns out…