Essential Salvador

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You could easily spend a week in Salvador, Brazil, getting a history lesson on the country's first capital, antiquing through the Pelhourino, and tasting its Afro-Brasilian cuisine, but if you only have a days, here is where to stay, eat, and shop in the must-see Old Quarter. Eating: Aracaje Aracajé is the most quintessential Salvadorian food ...

Architecture of the Amazon

The honeymoon has begun! The first stop on our around-the-world journey has landed us in Manaus, Brazil, the heart of the Amazon. It's a 2-million person city in the depths of the jungle that can only be accessed by plane or the only highway in town, the Amazon River.  Native Brazilians have obviously been living ...