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Salvador's
tourist information
is better than anywhere else in the Northeast. The state tourist agency,
Bahiatursa
, is used to foreigners; most offices have English-speakers; and there are a variety of maps and handouts on the city: the best two are the
Mapa Turistico de Salvador da Bahia
($1.50) and the free
Guia do Pelourinho.
If you're travelling on to other parts of Bahia, you should also ask for whatever material they have on the rest of the state, as elsewhere the service is nothing like as good. The Web site
www.bahiavirtual.com.br
is also worth checking out.
There are information posts on arrival at the airport (daily 8.30am-10.45pm) and the Rodoviaria (daily 8.30am-9.30pm). Bahiatursa's main office is in Cidade Alta at Rua das Laranjeiras 12 (also sometimes called Rua Francisco Muniz Barreto; daily 8am-11pm; tel 071/321-2133 or 321-2463), and there are other offices at the Mercado Modelo (Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 8.30am-1pm; tel 071/241-0242); in Barra Shopping, Av. Centenario 2992 (Mon-Sat 10am-9pm; tel 071/332-4566); and in Iguatemi Shopping, Av. Tancredo Neves 148 (Mon-Fri 9am-11pm, Sat 9am-7pm; tel 071/351-4308). An additional source of information is the tourist hotline , "Disque Turismo" - just ring tel 131 from any telephone and you should find an English-speaker on the other end. Finally, the city of Salvador has its own tourist authority, EMTURSA , which has an office on Largo do Pelourinho (daily 1-7pm; tel 071/243-6555), but it's nothing like as good.
One thing you should bear in mind when finding your way around the city is that many
roads
have two
names
: the main seafront road, for example, is sometimes called Avenida Presidente Vargas, but more usually Avenida Oceanica. In general we've gone for the name that actually appears on the street signs. Other useful information
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