Blogs from São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, South America - page 11

Everyone’s got some top destinations in their mind that they dream of visiting some day. Brazil was one of those destinations that Sarah and I shared. A seemingly endless coastline of beaches, the sand, the sea, samba, football, fute-volley, Rio, Sao Paulo, Iguazu Falls, the Amazon, Carnival, etc, etc, etc ..Brazil oozes sexiness and plain old FUN. These people would know how to party. So we were going there. Enjoy the upcoming blogs, photos, videos and please feel free to share any recommendations! We are again fortunate to have friends on foreign shores. Natalia and her family live in Sao Paulo, so that is where our Brazilian adventure begins. Arriving in Sao Paolo around 6pm on Friday December 10th with our backpacks in tow we were armed with our new Brazilian Portuguese pocket book and hyped ... read more

After a not so painful, 6 hour bus journey and a straight forward subway ride we arrived at our hostel GOL. Grabbing an early night, with sheets as football flags!, we hit the hay in anticipation of checking out Brazils biggest city the following day. The next day we set out in the baking34 degree heat and got our wondering boots on. Sao Paulo is a vast metropolis with skyscrapers reaching to the clouds, whilst small bar and restaurants hug the small streets below. The city reminded me a lot of Bangkok in Thailand in layout and sweltering city temperature. We ampled through the streets, viditing a food market and eating Japanese fried delights, ice creams and drinking Grape Fanta (amazing), stopping to check out a street performance of two 50 something gentlemen, freestyling at each ... read more

This huge metropolis of 19 million, the largest in the southern hemisphere, was one I'd planned to avoid. However, others had convinced me that its museums were not to be missed so I girded myself with low expectations and took yet another overnight bus. Coming from Ouro Preto, the overnight bus passed through mountains covered in lush vegetation and small towns. However, the next morning, it took us an hour of driving through a depressingly gray urban landscape to arrive at the San Paulo bus station, the largest in South America. At times we were surrounded on all sides by hideous concrete towers--this didn't seem promising. Yet the bus station was connected to the metro--a sure sign of a well-planned transportation system. Supposedly, San Paulo's urban bus system is the world's most complex with over 15,000 ... read more

We decided that as much as we both like the beach it really was time to move on and indulge in a little culture. We headed to Sao Paulo, the business centre of Brazil's booming economy. With only 2 nights here we had to fit in as much as possible during our short stay.  We went to a local samba night in Vila Madalena, where we were staying. The night was recommended to us by Tulio our informative hostelier. He promised a fun and authentic party, which was certainly delivered. The music played by a live band was brilliant. We never knew a tambourine could be played so well (it was truly a replacement for the drums). The place was packed with locals which was a good thing but also meant that as samba novices we ... read more

Welcome to my first post. From now on, I will start to publish here some of trip preparation and my traveling idea. Firstly, this is not just traveling, otherwise I could just separate a 2 months vacation and walk around having a good time relaxing and come back better to daily way of life but, not. The intention is different. That’s a discovering trip. A trip to get involved and mixed within the world, a trip to become baptized as a world citizen, to brake all barriers between the stable society life and the pure adventure of being alive, of feeling the world as it really is; its culture, its nature, both human and not human aspects of existence. I remember now the first impulse to leave for discovering. It's been in my childhood somewhere in ... read more