FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SALVADOR BAHIA BRAZIL'S COLORFUL HISTORIC TOWN
it feels like we were plucked out of our lives and placed into a fairy tale we ordered two traditional main dishes here in salvador sizzling there's a tradition that is famous here in bahia basically they're good luck ribbons almost like there's a whole different city on a different level good morning guys from salvador take a look at our view so we're in the colonial town of salvador but specifically we're in pellerino which is the historic district so this is where you'll see most of the beautiful colonial buildings and all the colors that this place is known for let's go explore salvador and first get some food we'll start so those ladies that you just saw they dress traditionally and you can get a picture with them we want to try some traditional brazilian food that is special to this area while we're here since we only have a few days so we heard we should be trying to and is a popular dish here as well so at first we thought it was just the main plaza that was colorful once we got here it looked like there is like a main city a big city that we drove through which looks more like sao paulo or something and then we only saw the main area but now as we're walking we're seeing that it's actually a lot more like look at these streets here all the pastel colors coming out down so this man right here painted all these bowls that are lined up along the buildings look at this wall of leather goods you can just shop the whole store on the wall outside here now we're beginning to understand why so many of you told us to come here so many brazilians kept saying salvador salvador salvador by yeah non-stop and it is very unique place so we are really glad we came here and we barely started yeah apparently salvador has a lot of history these buildings are from the 1700s now we are being escorted and we don't know why so we were just looking for a restaurant to get our breakfast today we were looking for kind of a local spot walking all around colorino and i think we kind of got out of like the main center of colorino we went into a restaurant that seemed very local and we asked for a menu and they didn't have it i think that's because it's so local that they know what they have they don't have to look at pictures or anything like that uh and this policeman military whatever he was he was standing there and he kind of followed us out and then he just said like like basically come with me without saying anything and he brought us down about a block block and a half to this place where we are now which it looks like there's like a buffet here there's some coffee and juices things like that and so we just got a coffee but he was just waiting outside for us the whole time for for a few minutes and then once we got our coffee he came in and he basically told us like go back the same way that you came that was the cheapest coffee we've had yet and that was probably my math keeps falling down that was probably because we're at a more local place but we paid 60 cents for two cafe con leches coffee and milk that's crazy let's go try some regional brazilian or afro-brazilian food we were gonna get breakfast but it kind of turned into lunch it's about 12 o'clock so let's eat some lunch lady's awesome she's been helping us out we ordered two traditional main dishes here in brazil or salvador we got feijoada and mosquito and one thing you always have to take into account in brazil is that music is played at a lot of places even if you get there and there's no music playing chances are music will start playing within the hour as you sit there and wow it seems like whenever we get to a restaurant they start playing music like 20 minutes later we usually try to pick places that have less music so we can film otherwise it's too loud and we have no idea that that's going to happen the other thing is you have to pay for the music if you're sitting at a table you you pay for the music you contribute to the artist to the restaurant and usually it's around a dollar dollar tent usually like six six rail wherever you are okay the waitress just came up to us two minutes later she said they don't have the fee here and that was the main thing we wanted to try the experience started out good and now it's getting kind of off i just don't have what you want we ordered them we'll show you that uh we're looking forward to that at least i'll get fiza another day so this is a pretty cool thing in brazil we've noticed that people can order these huge containers of beer and then they put them into these little cups and the container just sits at their table we haven't been having beer since we got to brazil we've mostly been having the caipirinhas but we're guessing that is probably really cheap so we're gonna have to find out how much one of those is because that would be really expensive in the u.s yeah that'd be a fun night is a fish stew and it's made with garlic parsley pepper onion tomato paste coconut milk and the secret ingredient is palm oil and they saute it over a low heat served with rice somo kika baina was developed in the state of baja where we are now it was influenced by african and portuguese cuisines by adding the palm oil and the coconut milk sizzling a little bit of rice and a couple sides you can see the peppers in there the onions the camaro the shrimp smells smells phenomenal i'm gonna have to wait for it to cool down slightly so we can try it but it looks excellent showing us how to eat it are we doing this so good it's creamy i think that's a coconut milk that makes it really creamy it must be the secret ingredient palm oil so this isn't a cheap dish i paid about ten dollars for this 10 actually seems like probably a pretty good deal it's sizzling it's full of shrimp and this rich rich sauce it it seems like an expensive dish anything with seafood is usually expensive so it makes sense we are stuffed that was a delicious very filling meal we're gonna go walk around a little bit more and see what we can find okay now we're walking to tracha which is maybe the main plaza in pellerino certainly looks like it there's a lot going on there a lot of street food vendors dancing music it's got a fun vibe let's see if the music's still going on i'm super full but i can't resist this because i've never seen anything like it may not come across it again coconuts juice and lime juice together it comes in this little cup or maybe it's just a sample it is ice-cold wow that is refreshing a little creamy but it tastes almost like a key lime pie a lot of people come up to you here as usual i think we'll get some so about a dollar and forty cents for us coconut juice and lemon so usually there's some music going on right here looks like they're taking a break but we will see them later so in this pracha this plaza there are people selling things and of course it's probably just the shade of what it usually is uh but they're still trying there aren't that many people around these days but there are a few tourists here but we're one of the few one thing we did want to buy here is some ribbons there's a tradition that is famous here in bahia basically they're good luck ribbons and i think we found them they're easy to find okay so you buy them in a bunch like this so 40 cents for this bundle so these ribbons or the baja bands have a long tradition here they go back maybe 200 years maybe even longer it's a afro-brazilian thing so it actually comes from africa the tradition of this so they used to wear silk ribbons around their neck that were hand painted with silver or ink and it was kind of like a cultural religious symbol these days people use them for good luck you place them on your wrist you can wear them on something or you put them like on a gate somewhere people just put them everywhere these days there are things that are more traditional but you can really do what you want with them but one thing i heard is you have to give it to somebody in order for the luck to work you can't just purchase it yourself and give it to yourself so i'm gonna give one to lindsay uh i'll allow her to give one to me if she wants to and hopefully it'll work that way so you're supposed to kind of wear it until it falls off so let's do it so we can't really pick i'm gonna pick a color i think she'll like and she'll pick one for me all right put it on my wrist so i know lindsay i think and i'm gonna pick this perfect one right here it's a light like baby pink and i think that's the color she would choose i've been really loving this color lately probably bahia but it cut off on the eye or cut off the a yeah it's a little cut off a little wrong there but oh wow these so with these bracelets when you are tying them on your wrist or on something else you're supposed to make a wish as you're tying the nuts so we did that in our heads when alex was trying on me and i was playing it on him another cool part about these bracelets another part of the tradition is that colors are supposed to mean something i think it's kind of developed over time and the white that lindsey gave me it means wisdom and inner peace and mine means friendship so we found someone that looks like he's down on his luck and i think we need to just give him a little bit of good luck make a wish bud i'm trying some nuts for you so we have a decent view from our window but this is the first view we're gonna get from down here so this city is very interesting because it's almost like there's like a whole different city on a different level so there's this whole level here where we've been all day and then you get to this viewpoint and it's a whole different city way down there and that brings us to the next place we're going which is this elevator it brings you down to the next level pretty cool connects you from the top of the city to the bottom so this i think is the famous elevator that brings you down that's where we're going next so guys it's time for a q a through these q a's we figure you guys can get to know us a little bit you guys can ask your questions because we can't always get to all of them in the comments we try to pick some of the best ones and put them in these q and a's so that we can answer them and talk to you guys about our travels about us if you have any questions really anything that you want to ask so it could be travel related anything about our personal lives relationship history anything so if you want yours specifically to be in a q a then make sure you write q and a before your question in the comments and just leave it on there let's get started first one comes from carlos espino did you notice any differences in the temperature between sao paulo and rio i'm sure the weather changes kind of all the time in these cities but when we were in sao paulo it happened to be super rainy and cloudy and humid i didn't notice much of a difference lindsay says that it was hotter in rio but i anything that's kind of hot is hot to me or not hot i don't know to me it seemed hotter in real the sun was just super strong but again i don't know if that was just the timing of when we were in these cities but apparently we've heard that the more north you go it gets hotter and we're heading into the summer months in brazil so it's gonna get real hot the next one is from ricardo luiza who says what do you think about the portuguese language is it similar to spanish um there are of course similarities to spanish but i don't think it's that similar of course it's similar but we know a bit of spanish and we know how to get by with our spanish with portuguese a lot of times we speak we speak our spanish words hoping that we can get by and a lot of times people have no idea what we're saying so although they're similar it's not similar enough to really get by with that language if we get lucky some words are similar like asking for how much something costs or the check it's like instead of acquaintance and i'm probably saying that wrong still but they're similar enough where people can guess what we mean but the language as a whole if you hear someone fluently speaking in portuguese versus spanish they don't sound similar at all portuguese kind of sounds like a mix of like spanish and like italian it kind of rolls differently and there is some there are a lot of sounds in portuguese that you don't really have in the spanish language so it makes it yeah it makes it more difficult but there are the similarities like pano banero some of those that make it easier manga next one comes from luva rescue says that's great to have food and drink vendors come to you while you're enjoying the beach so neat how many different ones were out there on a sunday so they're referring to in rio when we were hanging out on the beach eating and drinking we didn't have to leave our beach towel really as to how many we don't really know but they probably have certain areas that they work and in our area i'd say like you'd see someone new every few minutes but actually not someone knew you'd see someone every few minutes but a lot of the people we saw we would see them coming back and forth so i don't know maybe 10 to 15 different people possibly in our area in our small area like the beach is huge there's copacabana which is a huge beach they probably don't walk across the whole thing they probably just have an area and then there's like ibanema right next door and there's a whole area there so i don't know yeah probably a handful of people to each area and they all kind of sell similar things like the cheese sticks they were selling uh alcohol lots of alcohol coconuts the next one is from jace vibe who says did you continue your travels to keep the channel going or you felt like doing it i have a feeling you might have used some more rest so good question alex and i both love to travel so that is one of the main reasons that we are continuing our travels and came to brazil also there is the youtube channel thing which has been my job for a while so taking a year off or a year and a half like once covid started to the point we might get a vaccine and go back to normal possibly that's a long time to sit at home without a job when i could be out traveling doing my job for for a year so that is part of it but also i have been on the road for several years now traveling almost the whole year and so that's kind of the way i've been living so it's hard for me to just stay at home and not really do anything also we did take about two and a half months at home maybe our videos didn't totally reflect that because we are posting some older videos and stuff but we did get a good amount of rest so we feel ready to go on travel again the last question is from jean carlos lima who asks will you be going to the northeast of brazil yes we plan on doing a big trip for about a month heading more north northeast so we are going to see a lot of the things that you guys have been suggesting to us and you guys have been awesome giving us a ton of recommendations so we're going to listen to your guys's suggestions and we are going to go to a lot of the places that you've mentioned we can't wait for it they sound amazing we knew a little bit of what to expect when it came to rio sao paulo the big cities because you hear about them even across the world but these places in the northeast you don't really hear too much about them until you actually get to brazil and it sounds crazy in a good way so we're gonna go up there and show you probably some of the best stuff that we do in this country and it seems like in a lot of these places most tourists don't ever get to them so we're excited to experience where more locals are or where a lot of people don't get the chance to go so look forward to that please like this video it helps us out leave a comment below any comments say hello ask a weird question whatever you want and then we will see you in the next video tomorrow you
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