Robert Schrader is a writer, photographer and editor of the travel blog Leave Your Daily Hell. His travels has thus far taken him to more than 80 countries on all six inhabited continents, although he plans to visit Antarctica at some point as well. His motto in travel and in life is simple: "Jump - a net will appear."
Of course we had to pass through immigration to get here—only a wholly sovereign nation could maintain this level of purity in the modern age.
Many expanses of the Nakasendo, which connected Tokyo and Kyoto during Japan’s Edo period, are remote and quiet enough that you might actually feel as if you’re back in the early 7th century.
While Rio offers an abundance of sights, sounds and flavours—not to mention, the 2016 Olympic Games—a more dynamic destination sits northward along the coast, in Brazil’s Bahia province: Salvador.
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