Salvador day 4: walking and swimming

Today started with a nice early 8am rise, breakfast in the lobby, and a bus-tour of Salvador. It was a very interesting trip, stopping several times for pictures and such... including one stop at the beach where some men sold coconuts with straws attached... sweet but not that sweet. There was a walking tour of the local Market, where I bought more than my share of things. The highlight: I was offered a nice wooden carving for 140R, but I wasn't interested... I held the guy off for a while until it was down to 100 before walking away. However, before leaving, he caught me again and I again rebuffed him, until as I was walking down the stairs he came up and put in my bag... the final price was 30R. That's bargaining skills, baby!

It's 4pm and I'm heading down to swim in the bay, ... right down the slope [e.g. several hundred steps!] from the hotel. They have an awesome slide that dumps you off a 10-foot drop at the end... headfirst if you're like me! They also have a higher platform, maybe 25 feet, for a zipline that I was unfortunately stopped from using when I tried the other day. I just jumped off... it's quite a drop! Many pictures and movies, so you'll all get to see how cool I looked. Hopefully they'll end up on facebook eventually or some such. Ciao!