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With a lot of wonderful tour places, the State of Bahia offers the visitors a different variety. Beautiful beaches, natural pools, open sea, falésias (rocky coast), waterfalls, grottoes, caves, among other natural beauties that make anyone fascinated; not to mention the important cultural and historical centers that tell a little about the country’s history. And, the best of all, the attractions are not only in the capital, instead, they’re spread across the state.

Salvador is the third largest metropolis of the country. For this reason, it has all the conditions to offer its visitors and local population not only the facilities of a modern and developed urban center, but also incomparable natural beauty, with its 34 km of well preserved beautiful beaches, which are fantastic leisure options. Besides, the streets of the Salvador Historical Center, called Pelourinho, can take the tourist to a fantast trip to the beginning of Brazil’s history. There, specialists in the local culture, the tour guides, explain everything about the main places to visit in the city.

This way, the tourism has been constantly recognized by the government as employment and revenue source, boosting the development of the state, arts and the preservation of historical, artistic and cultural patrimonies.

This preservation program divided the state in tour regions. Some of them are: Baía de Todos os Santos, the bay where capital Salvador is located; Chapada Diamantina, with the City of Lençóis as its main support place to visit grottoes, caves and waterfalls; Baleias Coast, composed of Mucuri, Caravelas, Alcobaça Cities, the National Sea Park of Abrolhos and Prado; Coqueiros Coast, with very beautiful beaches and few people, and which includes Lauro de Freitas, Sauípe Coast, Fort Beach and Imbassaí; Cacau Coast, whose main place is Ilhéus, and which also includes Canavieiras, Itacaré, the Biological Reserve of Una, Margarida and Muta Salt Mines; the Discovery Coast, where the main cities are: Arraial D’Ajuda, Belmonte, Santa Cruz de Cabrália and Porto Seguro; Dendê Coast, which has a group of cities with international recognition: Morro de São Paulo, Guaibim, Valença, Boipeba, Baía de Camamu and Maraú, among others.

This variety of tour places provide the visitors with new leisure and entertainment options, appreciating the potential that each of them can offer, such as the practice of sports and the most varied types of tour: ecotourism, adventure tour, rural tour, religious tour and cultural tour.

Abrolhos
Abrolhos is a nature-gifted city in the South of Bahia. The Abrolhos Sea National Park is there; it was the first sea park created in Brazil, in 1983.

Canavieiras
This city of Bahia has exuberant scenery that combines Atlantic Woods reserves, mangroves, cashew trees and mango trees.

Chapada Diamantina
The large plateaus, rivers, waterfalls, grottos and subterranean lakes make this a special trip through the interior of Brazil.

Costa do Sauípe
Totally planned landscaping to obtain a perfect integration with the natural beauty.

Itacaré
Located in the heart of the Cacao Coast, along the southern coast of Bahia, Itacaré displays beautiful scenery untouched by man.

Mata de São João
The “Brazilian Polynesia” offers countless leisure and entertainment options inside and outside the beaches.

Porto Seguro
An excellent option to newcomers longing to know Brazil better is to start from the city where Europeans first arrived to “discover” the country.

Salvador
The city of Sao Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos was founded in 1549. But since the first years of the XVI century, after the Portuguese discovered new lands, the place where the urban area was later erected had been known already. It called the attention of sailors in that bay that the place was so favorable for the anchorage of ships.

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Links & Sources:

• Brazil Tourism Portal
• Bahia State Tourism Department