Brazil is a wide country. Once (years ago) I spent hours and hours on the roads, crossing country mostly by bus. But now I had no time to spend…
Did you hear about Brazil Air Pass? TAM airline (recently Star Alliance member) offers to the foreigners 4-segments ticket for their domestic network. The trick is to find the way fly as far as possible for the money you pay. They have many hopper flights: the plane starts eg in Iguazu, fly to Rio, onward to Salvador and then to Recife. As long as the number of the flight is not changed they treat it as one segment.
That´s what I do. I took a flight Iguazu-Salvador. Is is worth to know that they incuded all taxes (nightmare of the travellers) in the price of the ticket – on depature you pay nothing extra.
Service is good – they serve hot sandwiches and even free beer on domestic routes!
I landed in Salvador-Bahia at 8 pm. There is tourist info in the nice, modern terminal – The bus to the city has a stop just out of the arrival hall! – they said. I was waiting for this bus 1,5 hours. Sorry… It costs only 4 reais (taxi drivers wanted 80)…
It was not easy to find Pousada Acacia (Former Pousada Milagres) in Barra quarter. I landed there at 11 pm, it was still 24 deg Celsius. The place is worth to recommend – it is quite, clean, old villa. For 80 reais You will get queen size bed and king size breakfast with fruits, ham, cheese, eggs, unlimited home-made juices and cakes. Oh, mom! The only disadvantage is that nobody here speaks English – bring your phrasebook with you!
