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This full-day adventure will allow you to enjoy both the magnificent panoramic views Salvador offers, as well as discover its rich history, extraordinary architecture, and dynamic culture, result of the blend of Portuguese, African and Indigenous people. We will see the city from different angles, discovering the Lower City, with its bucolic interior atmosphere, around the calm waters of the All Saints Bay, and continuing to the tip of the Itapagipe Peninsula, the extreme west part of Salvador, and then the Upper City with its Historic Center – the cradle of our city’s history.

The Old City of Salvador is an intriguing cultural mix of local Indigenous & African People and European heritage. I feel ready to make your trip the most enjoyable experience.

Participate in a 3-hour Brazilian percussion workshop in Salvador. Get to know the rhythms and beats that provide the backdrop for Bahia's famous Carnival celebrations. Listen to the music that is essential in the Samba de Roda and the Candomblé ceremony. Learn about the percussion's roots in the African continent and how the tradition has transformed in modern Brazil from your local guide and professional percussion teacher. Round-trip transportation from Salvador hotels is included.

Explore the Ricardo Brennand Institute during this 5-hour tour in Recife. Follow an audio guide through the world-class art collection, including one of the world's largest weapons collections and a significant number of Frans Prost paintings. Continue to the Oficina Francisco Brennand to see a collection of a native Brazilian contemporary sculptor, with an additional visit to the Park of Sculptures to see more of the artist's work. Entrance fees and round-trip transportation from select Recife hotels are included.

Recife's cultural sights tend to cluster in the historic center and along the beachfront, leaving the Ricardo Brennand Institute—set inside a neo-Gothic castle complex in the city's western suburbs—overlooked by travelers without their own transport. Combine admission with a transfer from Recife, with access to the institute's Frans Post collection, medieval arms and armor holdings, and rare-book library.

it is the best way to visit and enjoy Salvador at night time. A City full of joy and happiness that everyone who visit it, fall in love with its beauty.

During this private three-hour tour I will take you on an adventure to discover the charm of Salvador and its people, as we admire some of the Old Town's extraordinary treasures and surprising secrets, like its squares, churches, monuments, colonial houses, museums, art galleries, handicraft stores, restaurants and bars. Salvador has an unique combination of the Portuguese, local Indigenous People and African cultures. We are the result of this great mixture and I feel ready to make your trip the most enjoyable one.