{"id":647,"date":"2015-09-29T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ustoa.com\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:06:36","slug":"brazil-state-of-bahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustoa.com\/blog\/brazil-state-of-bahia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: The State of Bahia"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Colin Roohan, AFAR Ambassador<\/em><\/p>\n

When I learned I would be going to Brazil<\/a> with EMBRATUR<\/a> and LATAM <\/a>as part of AFAR\u2019s partnership with USTOA, I was extremely excited yet a little concerned as my knowledge of the country was limited. Almost everything I knew came from a high school friend who had emigrated from Brazil to the United States when he was fairly young.<\/p>\n

I learned my group and I would be spending the majority of the time in the state of Bahia, a place I would soon come to know as a beautiful, flamboyant mixture of culture and excitement with charismatic people and intoxicating landscapes. We would start the journey in the state\u2019s capital (and third largest city in Brazil), Salvador, one of the oldest colonial cities in the Americas, then head to the less populated pastures of Brazil\u2019s Chapada Diamantina National Park which is an enormous area full of caves, grottos and rough terrain conducive to exploring.<\/p>\n