I have heard about Porto Seguro ever since I arrived in Brazil as the party capital of Brazil which is the party capital of the world. So based on this I was pretty excited to get there after our eighteen hour bus ride from Rio do Janeiro. But as it turns out Porto Seguro is just another city with a very interesting history. It is one of the first places in Brazil that the Portuguese landed in and contains some of the oldest churches in Brazil. It is also where the state of the Northeast starts. The northeast is almost a completely different culture that where I live in the state of Sao Paulo. The accent is different, the food is different, and it has a different history. Most of the slaves were shipped to the northeast to produce rubber, coffee, and sugar cane. It also almost came under the rule of the Dutch in the very northeast of Brazil. I’ve talked with my host family about the history of the war between the Portuguese and Dutch in the northeast and they brought an interesting point of view into it. They said that they would rather be Dutch than Portuguese because the Dutch treated slaves more like the English and French in North America where Canada and the United States were born opposed to other third world countries. This is merely the opinion of one family however and not of me or of Brazil. I just thought that it was interesting. In any case Porto Seguro was a beautiful and interesting place.