Blogs from São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, South America - page 26

this photos I've taken with Marcel in a machine placed in the Sta Curz mall cute, isn't it???... read more

Hi, this is my first entry in this blog.... I'm preparing myself to go to French Guyana so far things seem good it was a little difficult to get the visa but it seems like everything will end fine ^.~... read more

Asleep on the flight from Toronto, I was woken up after midnight by the flight attendant loudly asking: CHICKEN OR BEEF? I requested veggie, but as the flight attendant informed me, the veggie has to be pre-ordered. So I settled back to drift in and out of plane slumber and dream of my future experiences in Brazil. My heart pounded faster with excitement at the thought of the unknown. As the plane landed flew over São Paulo, I started to wonder just how I was going to make my way around the massive city. Knowing very little Portuguese the thought was intimidating considering that the greater São Paulo metropolitan area has almost 20 million inhabitants making it the fifth most populous metropolitan area in the world! Luckily, the guy I was sitting next to on ... read more

Now the first view I had of Sao Paulo at night from the airplane was a city that just didn´t end. It was massive. From the plane it was difficult to determine where the centre of the city actually was because there were massive clusters of sky scrapers everywhere. For those travellers who only venture to Rio here and Iguazu, this is nothing like the rest of Brazil, nothing like it. It´s a pretty clean young and well organised city with the most efficient subway system I´ve ever seen. You have to wait less than a minute between trains and the lines are nice and close together. We arrived late and took an over-priced bus into the centre and stayed with the formula 1 hotel chain - was $10 reals more than a hostel - avoid ... read more

Thursday 8th March to Thursday 15th March, 2007. At 13.40 and at the fourth attempt I finally departed Paraty for the six hour bus ride south to Sao Paulo, the world´s second biggest city and home to 22 million Paulistans, 22 million and one if you included my brother in law Russell who had arrived on business 36 hours earlier. My seat was at the very front and I immediately made my self comfortable in the hope of sleeping through the trip but the heat within the still stationery bus made that impossible and so I sat back and waited for the air conditioning to kick in. Initially I thought it was just me, that my body was handing out what it considered to be justly deserved punishment for staying up late and consuming copious amounts ... read more