SALVADOR DA BAHIA                    OLINDA   

 

We then flew to the picturesque Bahìa, with its colorful colonial architecture and the turbaned Bahianas.  Founded by the Portuguese in 1594, it was the capital of Brazil for 200 years; now a city of contrasts between the poor people conducting their daily chores in the streets and the hip youth hanging out at the beaches.



I traveled on my own further North, to Olinda, to visit an Italian professor I had met 2 years earlier on Lake Titicaca.  He explained to me the charged political climate of his artistic town, in an election year, expressed in colorful murals.



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