Sao Paulo, Brazil Travel Blogs

Wayne's World all over again.
Dec 5, 2005 (7 photos)

... and he 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...
Apr 30, 2008

... 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 depressing ...

Leito Class
Sep 18, 2006 (3 photos)

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 to ...

São Paulo
Jan 9, 2007

... so 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, ...

What lovely people!
Jul 22, 2005

... 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 and ...

hazy
Jul 8, 2005

... 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
Jun 2, 2005 (13 photos)

... : 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 ...

São Paulo, Where People Meet People
Dec 9, 2005 (2 photos)

... that doesn´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 there.

sao paulo
May 27, 2005

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ordem e progresso
Jun 9, 2005

... 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 ...

dude,...
Jun 24, 2005

... 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
Apr 22, 2008

... we 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
Mar 4, 2006 (29 photos)

... 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 now! ...

Sao Paulo
Feb 11, 2007

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Sao Paulo for the long flight home
Sep 4, 2007

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Sao Paulo
Sep 9, 2004

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Sao Paulo in our entry from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil entitled 'Rio Rocks!'. Cheers, K & S

Don't Mine Me
Sep 9, 2005 (3 photos)

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
Feb 18, 2007 (26 photos)

... 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 of ...

Sao Paulo
Feb 14, 2007

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cowboy up, yall
Jun 18, 2005

... 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 malls ...

a message...
Aug 8, 2005

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
Dec 2, 2007

... 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 while ...

PUT ALL THE FEIJOADA IN THE BAG
Apr 22, 2003 (6 photos)

... . 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 ...

WALKING TCHOKO (I LEFT MY HEART IN ... WHERE!?)
Aug 10, 2001 (3 photos)

... Vegas. Johannesburg, South Africa. New Jersey. What do these four places have in common? Well, along with Sao Paulo, Brazil, they make up the list of the five places that I'd actually prefer to stay home than visit. Me? ...

Hiding Out
Mar 8, 2006 (5 photos)

... are in the area, he is a great host and would appreciate the company. Yesterday, we crossed the border into Brazil and stepped into a different world. The first problem we encountered is that Portuguese sounds nothing like Spanish. We can generally ...

Ilha Grande.
Dec 3, 2008 (14 photos)

So with the weather turning against us alittle, 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
Aug 22, 2005 (4 photos)

... flight was delayed in Madrid and I have known that I only have 2 hours for finding the right plane to Belo Horizonte. I arrived in São Paulo at 7:00 and I was really busy with finding my bag and then to find the right hall and the right check in. And I ...

Weekly Meeting - And Goodbye
Sep 21, 2005

Goodbye to a travel Friend After my work I met Tijana another trainee from Bosnia of IAESTE. She is working in Ouro Preto as a english teacher. I think it is a difficult job, and she has stupid working times. from lunch time to 9 pm. And we ...

BROKEN HEARTS AND DEPORTATION - PART II
Apr 22, 2002 (3 photos)

... three months since my last visit to the hundreds of french fry skyscrapers that had been vomited up in creating the megalopolous, Sao Paulo. Three months since some of the happiest days of my life. I called Georgia. She would meet me that night. ...

Visiting a very good Friend
Nov 27, 2005 (18 photos)

... like my hostfamily in Campinas a lot and it was sooo difficult to leave them and the country on the 18th of december. I took the bus to Sao Paulo Airport and it is really esay to find the right way. My friend Juliano was joining me there. He is by the way ...