Salvador is the capital of the state Bahia and is situated at the northeast side of Brazil. It’s perfectly shaped as a natural harbor, so when it was founded it quickly became the main harbor for sugar and slave trades. This has made Salvador to what it is today – little Africa! Salvador has a population of 3.8 millions of people and 80% of them have Black African ancestry!
Because of its history Salvador has an amazing Afro-Brazilian culture which reflects itself on music, sports, food, and traditional clothing. Salvador is also known by the name “Brazil’s capital of happiness”, because of the easygoing people and all the parties! I wonder how the people of Salvador became this way, maybe the slaves decided to never work again after they got released and they are still celebrating with a lots of parties?!
People from other states usually refer to bahianas (people of the state Bahia) as lazy and slow, so if you there make sure you aren’t in a hurry! I have never been so relaxed as I’m when I’m there. Nothing matters, time is just a time and the Bahia time is always a few hours after, no rush!
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Hi dear Emma and Jair
that is the right life, we are in a hurry all the time but really we have a rush of life to the lifes end point and we just miss the good life with the sole reason that we are in a hurry
by the way congrulations :)
//Farid
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