Sao Paulo
Travel Blogs from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Wayne's World all over again.
... happens to be the vocalist in a melodic power metal band called Kamelot. And this particular weekend they were playing in São Paulo, so after promising us backstage passes and free beer, how could we resist? We thought that just getting into the ...
Stuck in traffic...
... the city gets bigger. And bigger. And it grows, wider and fatter, slowly but surely, to consume the Brazil around it. Being in Sao Paulo has been brilliant - because of the oasis and good friends. But the city itself is marginally ...
São Paulo
... for very long (where else can you buy Sushi for $6 a kilo?). Fully sated we head off to see the city. São Paulo isn`t exactly stacked with tourist attractions but it is a pleasant enough place with lots of busy pedestrianised streets and pretty squares, ...
Leito Class
We caught the early morning bus from Paraty to Sao Paulo arriving about 3PM. In Paraty we were told that we could then get an onwards bus to Campo Grande and arrive the following morning. What they didn't tell us was that we would have to find our way ...
hazy
... of the second half, as hopes were beginning to fade and fatigue was setting in, a ball bounced out of the penalty area towards a Sao Paulo midfielder, who had a clear shot from 20 yards out. He netted it nearside and there was a thousandth of a second of ...
1st entry
... : Seven international airports in seven cities (Seattle, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, San Jose, Costa Rica; Lima, Peru; São Paulo, Brazil). The itinerary contained five flights and hours of down time in the airport, including two overnights, etc. But ...
20 Million and counting
With more than 11 million residents living the city itself and a further 10 million living in the greater metropolitan area, makes São Paulo the forth largest city in the world. With a population of this size there a bound to be loads to see and do and ...
What lovely people!
... a short time. I should stay longer, they said, so that I could come to their houses and have some time to see Brazil outside of Sao Paulo. I should bring my husband and we should take a vacation in Brazil. They gave me names of people who had done this ...
Ilha Grande.
So with the weather turning against us a little, ie rain and cloud which ruled out sight seeing the famous Christ on a Hill we headed off to the paradise island of Ilha Grande with another couple of guys we'd met at the hostel. Mike from England and ...
São Paulo, Where People Meet People
... 't know what I look like that I have anything but a big nose. He was crap. And it was with this that we finished. Back onto the bus and into a traffic jam again. São Paulo, it´s an interesting place, but I certainally wouldn´t want to live ...
ordem e progresso
... 5 seconds into an eternity (see the relativity of time paragraph in my previous entry). One of the most common forcible crimes in Sao Paulo is car-jacking. Especially at night, when a car is stopped at a red light or in a deserted neighborhood, thieves ...
No Di nero
Getting to Parati turned out to be a pretty big mission. Ilha Grande had no cash machine so I was running extremley low on cash when we left. After the boat trip back to the mainland I asked a few people which was the bus to Parati. After two hours on ...
Samba in Sao Paulo
... football was introduced to the country by a European over a hundred years ago. Hollie however was more interested in Daslu, Sao Paulo's shopping emporium. Over three floors you can find every fashion designer you could wish for while servants dole out ...
dude,...
... and waiting in lines much longer-we could find a cheap place to go out in our neighborhood. But just then I learned about another Sao Paulo tradition: traffic during the witching hour. Because this area of town is so busy late at night, traffic comes to a ...
The Last Leg
... took our last long bus journey (16 hours) across the border into Brazil (which this time stopped to stamp us in) and arrived in Sao Paulo this morning. We had been due to carry onto Rio but an outbreak of Dengue Fever meant we couldn´t head all the way ...
Solo in Sao Paulo
... now, deal with the present I guess. Homeward bound Ok, not yet exactly, but feels like it. 36 hours on a bus later and Sao Paulo is a nice enough city. Lots going on, tons of restaurants and clubs, theatre and all that jazz I can´t afford right ...
Moro de Sao Paolo
Nov 5 - 8 Moro de Sao Paolo Amazing amazing amazing. Will update when we can manage to consider spending more than 15 minutes at a time on the Internet when we could be out on these amazing beaches or sipping a Capriahina... What a wonerful stop ...
Last Day In South America (For Now).
... I replied “OK” which is universal so we both know the message has been understood – simple really. Example 2 Again in Sao Paulo Barra Funda bus terminal, I was busting for a leak but our bus ticket to go to the airport had taken all our ...
Beautiful waterfalls and more...
... the waterfalls just take you breathe away, we all visited the point on the borders where you can literally see, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil all at once. So a quick pop back into Argentina, you have to see the falls from both sides, a ride through the ...
Sao Paulo
Hi Guys, You can read our update from Sao Paulo in our entry from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil entitled 'Rio Rocks!'. Cheers, K & ...
Don't Mine Me
Don't Mine Me Ouro Preto (Black Gold), Minas Gerais, Brazil -- A trip up into mountains where lie the wonderfully preserved, colonial, gold rush boom towns of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais (General Mines) is probably not complete without a visit ...
Curitiba, Ilha do Mel, Mococa, Sao Paulo
... , and safe area, with a ultramodern indoor shopping centre hosting all the famous world wide chain stores. In terms of Sao Paulo sightseeing, we visited the wide skyscraper lined Avenida Paulista, the Italian district of Bixiga, and the Asian district ...
cowboy up, yall
... to me like that. Alright, I will throw you a bone. I am absolutely amazed with the modernity of Brasil. Maybe it¡¦s just Sao Paulo that is so developed, but I have a feeling the entire country has at least a similar kind of infrastructure. Some of the ...
a message...
So, this will be my last broadcast from the perplexing and challenging city that is Sao Paulo (please see my previous entries under the 'writing' tab), because, according to my 'to do list', I have just graduated from the University of Alabama-Birmingham ...
The final day in South America
... we found ourselves rushing to the Rio bus station at 4:30 the night of our flight. It was a six hour drive to Sao Paolo. Don't worry, it all worked out. Buses departed every 15 minutes, just as our guidebook said. Although ...
PUT ALL THE FEIJOADA IN THE BAG
... There´s a lot of ground being covered here. After three straight nights of sleeping in buses, travelling, I got to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where ... I slept in a restaurant. Which reminds me of a million-dollar idea my college roommate and I had of ...
