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Brasilia Recife Salvador

Start your journey in the capital of Brazil, designed by Niemeyer, most famous national architect, and discover his buildings all around the city. Then travel to Recife, on the coast followed by Olinda, historic city full of surprises. Your last stop will be in Salvador, to the rhythm of the batucada, an African-influenced Brazilian percussion style.

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Itinerary

  • Day 1: Brasília
  • Day 2: Brasília
  • Day 3: Brasília - Recife - Olinda
  • Day 4: Recife - Olinda
  • Day 5: Olinda
  • Day 6: Olinda - Recife - Salvador
  • Day 7: Salvador
  • Day 8: Salvador - Recôncavo - Salvador
  • Day 9: Salvador

TRAVEL BOOK

Day 1: Brasília


Pick up at the airport and transfer to the hotel.



Night at the Brasília Palace hotel (breakfast included). Standard room.
Included : transfer arrival, reception with english-speaking guide, local guide, private transport, room & breakfast

Day 2: Brasília

Meet with your local guide at the hotel at 09:00am for a guided visit of the town, to discover the principal touristic sites of the capital:
- the small church of Fátima dating from 1958
- the residential complex of the South
- the History and the Institute of Geography of Brazilia (only Monday mornings)
- the Sanctuary of Dom Bosco (superb stained glasses exhibiting 12 different shades of blue)
- the television tower (a metallic structure of 224 meters in height with a belvedere of 75 meters)
- the Ayrton Senna sport center (one of the best equipped in the country)
- the Buriti palace (seat of the federal government)
- the JK Memorial (in commemoration of President Kubitschek – entrance fee not included – closed on Mondays)
- the army’s headquarters (from outside only), the Cathedral Nossa Senhora Aparecida
- the ministry esplanade (17 identical buildings except the one of the ministry of Justice and of Foreign Affairs)
- the Congress (ensemble of 2 towers in the shape of an H, master piece of Niemeyer)
- the plaza of Three Powers
- the Lucio Costa Space (with a 13 m by 13 m miniature of Brasilia)
- the Alvorada Palace (from outside only)
- the official residence of the Brazilian President and the JK bridge (2003 award winner of the most beautiful bridge in the world – only on Mondays).

Entrance fees not included.

At the end of the day, return to the hotel.

Night at the Brasília Palace hotel (breakfast included). Standard room.
Included : local guide, private transport, room & breakfast

Day 3: Brasília - Recife - Olinda


Transfer by private vehicle to the airport 2-3 hours prior to departure. Flight from Brasília (flight time and number to be confirmed).
Airport pick up and transfer to the hotel in Olinda.

Night at the 7 Colinas hotel (breakfast included). Standard room.
Included : transfer departure, transfer arrival, room & breakfast

Day 4: Recife - Olinda

Departure from the pousada at 09:00am, with your English-speaking guide, for a guided tour of Recife’s historical areas (Recife Antigo, São António, São José). In 1630, when the Dutch invaded the area, they set fire to Olinda, the Portuguese capital to erect the town of Recife nearby, in a place of mangroves and islands.
There, they amazingly managed to build in less than 30 years numerous ballasts, bridges, channels as well as accomplishing large urbanization and sanitary works. In 1657, the Portuguese recovered their land and embellished it with treasures such as the Capela Dourada (the Golden Chapel), the Teatro Santa Isabel, the São Francisco Church, the Pátio São Pedro...

In the São José area and in a colorful atmosphere, hundreds of small merchants set up each day their stall inside or around the splendid metallic structure typical of the Art Nouveau of the São José market. Handicraft, fruits, vegetables, fish, medicinal plants… Anything can be found there, everything can be bought.

Lunch in a typical restaurant (not included) and return to the hotel early in the afternoon.

Note : Entrances not included

Night at the 7 Colinas hotel (breakfast included). Standard room.
Included : english speaking guide, private transport, room & breakfast

Day 5: Olinda

Departure from the hotel at 09:00am with your English-speaking guide for a guided stroll in the streets of Olinda, the city with eight hills. Founded in 1537, Olinda (the beautiful) is one of Brazil’s colonial treasure. The steep narrow streets and their irregular paving stones, the colorful, friendly colonial houses, the mansions and their wrought iron balconies and its the convents with their baroque churches keeping surprising treasures; all of these made this beautiful town worthy of being registered as a world heritage site by Unesco since 1982.

Return to the pousada before lunch time.

Night at the 7 Colinas hotel (breakfast included). Standard room.
Included : english speaking guide, private transport, room & breakfast

Day 6: Olinda - Recife - Salvador

Transfer to the airport 2 hours prior to departure. Flight from Recife (flight time and number to be confirmed).
Pick up at the airport and transfer to hotel.

Night at the pousada Solar dos Deuses (breakfast included).
Included : transfer departure, transfer arrival, reception with english-speaking guide, room & breakfast

Day 7: Salvador

Meet at the hotel at 09:00am with your English-speaking guide for the discovery of the area best representing the heart and soul of Salvador.

With the influences of its African origins, the city has built a unique identity in Latino America, with a daily life animated by capoeira rythms and the religious festivities of the candomblé.


In the morning, visit the lower parts of town. Start with the farol (lighthouse) da Barra, a lonely guard at the entrance of the all saints bay, built under the order of Tomé de Souza, the first gobernador of Salvador.

Then you will head to the port area and visit the Sao Joaquim market, an authentic bahianan market. You will continue to the north and stop at the Bonfim church where you can admire an impressive ex votos collection showing the popular devotion to the Senhor do Bonfim in the "miracles room".

The visit will then take you to Ribeira, a always animated popular area. In the morning with the shouting merchants, at midday for lunch (moqueca specialty, a kind of fish and sea-fruit stew) and the night for dancing.


After lunch, visit of the higher parts of town, with the Pelourinho histrorical area. Its prestigious architectural ensemble was renovated in its original bright colors and has superb colonial houses and many baroque churches. The visit (by foot) will start in the capoieira fort where you will enjoy a wonderful scenic view over the bay.

You will ten walk up the rua do carmo until the convento do Carmo (a convent transformed in a luxurious hotel), The visit will be followed with the jewel workshop D'Klays, the house/museum Jorge Amado and the shiny Sao Francisco church with its surprising azuleiros frescos.

You will finish the afternoon at the base of the Lacerda elevador, the crossing of the lower and upper parts of the city, with a shopping time at the Mercado Modelo.


Return to the hotel at the end of the day.


Option: half day visit of the " candomblé" followed with a night ceremony, check with us.




Your guide will pick you up in the evening at the hotel around 07:00/07:30pm (time to be arranged with him) for a night at the Miguel Santana Theater. Your guide will accompany you back to the hotel after dinner.

Night at the pousada Solar dos Deuses (breakfast included).
Included : english speaking guide, entrance fees, private transport, dinner (no drinks), room & breakfast

Day 8: Salvador - Recôncavo - Salvador

Departure at 09:00am, in a private vehicle, with your English-speaking guide to go to Cachoeira, one of the colonial pearls of the North East, two hours away from Salvador (110 km). Shortly after leaving you will drive inland and start to feel the typical ambiance of the Recôncavo Baiano. This wealthy agricultural area was one of the first in Brazil to be colonized and exploited by the Portuguese. On your way to Cachoeira, you will cross sugar cane, manioc and tobacco plantations, some of which being many centuries old.

You will stop in Santo Amaro, the birth town of the musician Caetano Veloso, where you can visit the local market.


Your guide will make you discovering the rich historical past of the town of Cachoeira, which was for a time the capital of the state of Bahia, and included among its inhabitants some famous people like Anastacia, symbol of the slave resistance, or Ana Neri, one of the pioneers of humanitarian work.

You will then cross the Rio Paraguaçu to walk through the narrow streets of São Felix, across the river from Cachoeira. Visit of the Dannemann cigar factory, over two centuries old.


Return to Salvador at the end of the day.


Note: Museums are closed on Sundays and the cigar factory on Mondays and Sundays – there is a cattle market on Saturdays.




Night at the pousada Solar dos Deuses (breakfast included).
Included : english speaking guide, entrance fees, private transport, room & breakfast

Day 9: Salvador

This town’s visit is organized differently than a classical city-tour, and includes an initiation to the Candomblé. The Candomblé, an African religion perpetuated in Brazil by the slaves, has remained very present on the bahianais land. This cult is based on the belief of the existence of numerous deities, the Orixás, symbolizing the elements of nature and endowed with precisely defined powers. These deities act as links between the living and the dead, in the same and only world.


With your English-speaking guide and a guide specialized in Afro-Brazilian culture, you will leave from the hotel at 09:00am to go to Pelourinho.


Program of this half day:

- Visit of the Afro-Brazilian museum, where large murals depict the past of the slaves and their different African origins. Representations of musical instruments used during the Candomblé ceremonies are exhibited In the same room. In the room dedicated to the Orixás, the 14 principal divinities are shown with their arms and their liturgical animals, sculpted in large wooden blocks by Carybé.

- Visit of the Pierre Verger’s photograph exhibition, one of the most famous French people living in Salvador in the last century. Globe trotter, he spent the last few years of his life in Salvador, where he dedicated the essential of its energy to the study of Brazilian Candomblé, and to show the cultural similarities between Brazil and West Africa.

- Visit a "terreiro", the site of the cult and of the candomblé ceremonies. There you can see: O poço de Oxum (the well of Oxum), a sculpture of bel Borba in homage to Xangô, diverse "casa" were the Orixás like Oxum, Omolu, Oxossi and Ogum are veneered and the "casa de candomblé", where the ceremonies take place.

Note: The Terreiro can be closed for visits for several religious reasons.

- Visit of the foundation Pierre Verger, located in the house where he lived until his disappearance in 1995.

- An option once there: meet a mãe de Santos who may do some predictions using a "jogo dos Búzios", by interpreting the signs read in seashells.



Transfer to the airport 3 hours prior to departure. Flight from Salvador (flight time and number to be confirmed).

Included : english speaking guide, entrance fees, private transport, transfer departure

Hotel Brasília Palace   Brasília

Level : 3*
Included : room & breakfast

Hotel 7 Colinas   Olinda

Level : 4*
Included : room & breakfast

Pousada Solar dos Deuses   Salvador

Level : 4*
Included : room & breakfast

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