This excursion takes us to the Reconcovo, the fertile land around the Bahia de Todos os Santos, with sugar-cane and tabacco plantations, once worked by black slave labour - black population still is the largest community in the region.

The gently decaying colonial cities of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro still give you the feeling of the old days with the ancient colonial houses and churches.

Crossing the river Paraquaçu using the old iron railway bridge you enter the twin city Sao Felix, famous for Dannermann cigars and its accompanying cultural centre.