Saturday, December 29, 2012

Northeast Trip part 2

From Lençois we went to Maceió, where we visited the beach, went to natural pools in the ocean, and shopping in a small fair.
The Natural Pools in the ocean
Piscinas Naturais
 The boats to get us to the natural pools
 The beach!
 Traditional Northeastern food, tapioca. I got chocolate and strawberry :) (chocolate e morango)
We drove out dune buggies to here, so beautiful. 
Our buggies!

From Maceió, we went to Salvador, the capital of Bahia. Salvador is the first colonial capital in Brazil, and one of the oldest cities in the Americas.
 Our hotel in Salvador.
 Project Tamar (Projeto Tamar) "The main objective of the project is to protect sea turtles fromextinction in the Brazilian coastline."
Project Tamar More Information


 The boys trying out tight rope walking!
 The view from our hotel.
 McDonalds... super fancy?
 Igreja de Nosso Senhor do Bonfim

São Francisco Church, considered to be the richest “gold church” in Brazil.
Salvador

Talent Show! The people from Australia and New Zealand took 3 people from the audience, and made them try vegemite.
Jordan (Canadian) did a dance of how dancing has changed through the years, from Elvis to ridiculous dancing today.
Just (The Netherlands) showed us his juggling talent.
The Danish people did... this... Some kind of dance, I don't remember what the significance was :)
Germans dancing!
Landon (American) and Fin (German) dancing the dougie.
Ana and Sebastian (Denmark) dancing.
Getting ready in the morning, French style. (With the help of Florent, Belgium)
Sebastian (Columbia), Alexander (Denmark), and Dave (USA) did impersonations of people on the trip.

1 comment:

  1. Looks like fun, Celia and certainly a wonderful memory for life! TFS-

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