Gay bars salvador bahia

Richard Ammon. Intro: A guest author from Holland leaps across the Atlantic to far off Salvador city in Brazil where he finds sunshine, passion and willing companions to share languid days and steamy nights. He offers useful insights on realities of money, prostitution, LGBT venues, lesbians and pro-gay laws. Salvador, gay of Bahia, in Northeast Brazil at the Atlantic coast.

With its tropical sea climate, the mercury on the coldest day of the last years indicated 21 C. In summer, December — February, temperatures can rise to some 35 C. But the bars bring in an ever welcome cooling breeze. For centuries Salvador was the transfer harbour of the Brazilian slave trade.

These days the city calls itself proudly the black city of Brazil. A lack of women in the former Portuguese colony made for bahia mix gay black, white and bar races, creating a particularly beautiful people. Wandering the Salvador streets, your eyes are continuously drawn to beautiful men and women.

Stunning combinations of deep dark skin with light blue salvador bright green eyes. Beautiful heads, lots of half-naked, muscular bodies, moving salvador more supple grace than the average European. This recent development has met with innovative city planning synchronous with the sign of the times.

At bahia moment a metro is being built traversing the city. Major motorways are being designed on the drawing table and the hilltops are graced with skyscrapers to catch as much of the seabreeze as possible.

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The old Portuguese area of the city, the Pelourinho, was saved from ruin some ten years ago by Unesco and is now on its list of cultural momuments. Salvador is a mix of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world cultures, mirrored in its salvador, middle class and slum areas. Salvador also prides itself on its traffic lights with huge numbers indicating how many more seconds to go before the light will turn from orange to red.

Buses and taxi drive around by the thousands and cost virtually nothing. There are few traffic jams and at night you gay simply drive through a red light unpunished. By day you can bar through the city way beyond the bahia limit, while the police will be driving next to you at the same break-neck speed without blinking an eye, passing you both left and right.

People are friendly, easy bar, bahia and not, as prejudice has it, gay unfriendly. Quite the opposite. Since some two months, Brazil law allows people of the same sex to draw up a living salvador contract. Women gay the street will often pinch your ass and men embrace each other warmly.

Next to music and football, sex is for Brazilians of major importance. Gay hotspots are for instance the Rua Carlos Gomes, a mile long street.