BAHIAN FESTIVALS:

-JAN: New Years's Eve

-FEB: Festa de Yemanja and Carnaval

-MAR: Founding of Salvador

-MAY: Festival de Musica Instrumental da Bahia

-JUN: São João

-JUL: Independência da Bahia

-AUG: Festa da Boa Morte

-SEP: Independência do Brasil

-NOV: Dia da Baiana

-DEC: Mercado Cultural

Mercado Cultural (sponsored by the Ford Foundation) is an exciting and fun international art expo that includes music, dance, theatre and photography. We invite you to spend the Thanksgiving holiday in Brazil and discover what the art world is going to unveil in Brazil. Mercado Cultural website

Carnaval: Welcome to the largest street party in the world! Brazil's third largest city swells from two million residents to five million revelers. Carnaval in Salvador allows YOU to dance in the streets with Brazil's hottest musical bands.

"Foreigners may flock to Rio de Janeiro, but savvy Brazilians like to argue that the best place in their country to spend the Southern Hemisphere summer is Salvador da Bahia." The world will be in Salvador, how about you?

Boa Morte: Travel with us as we visit the Bahian town of Cachoeira. Festival of the Boa Morte, The Good Death, takes place each year, in August. A sisterhood of women descended from African slaves, put on their finest ceremonial clothes and jewelry to participate in three days of Masses, parades, public feasts and dancing in honor of the Virgin Mary and the memory of slaves who managed to become free during their lifetimes.