Sao
Travel Blogs from Sao, Brazil
Wayne's World all over again.
First we planned on going to São Paulo, and then we figured we should skip it as time is running short. Lets keep to the beaches instead, as you really need a few days to see São Paulo. After all it's the world's second biggest city (or so) with a ...
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 ...
Brazil, beans and broccoli
... Ecuador, more expensive but with a more laid-back feel to it. I´ve yet to meet any other English-speaking travellers in Brazil, and haven´t actually spoken any English for the past fortnight. I can´t speak Portuguese and so mumble in Spanish, hoping to ...
Wandering the colonial Sao Luis
... musicians and dancers. They were wearing very large headresses and feathers and it was all very African influenced which this part of Brazil has a lot of links to. We think we established that the festival was the last night of a festival for Sao Luis ...
São Paulo
Alex: São Paulo is a big city and, reputedly, quite dangerous so we were keen to get the metro and get to our hostel before darkness and not walk around the city with our big backpack - the best laid plans and all. The usually trusty lonely ...
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 ...
Floresta National Park (Maguary Village) - Day 78
Met up with some fellow travelers this morning who wanted to go to the national park too, so we thought we'd try and negotiate a price together for the trip. We struck a deal and decided to go for 2 days and one night, we leave by boat in a few hours. I ...
hazy
... case the bragging rights were even more valuable, because the evening's opponent was a club team called River Plate, one of Brazil's hated-rival Argentina's finest squads. GGGRRRRR!!!! One of my local friends had skipped work to go to Morumbi Stadium the ...
1st entry
... 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
I couldn´t be so close to São Paulo and not visit it! So on one of the days from Campinas I headed there with Bruno and Flávio. Expert tour guides at my service! We got the bus down which should take just a little over an hour. However due to some ...
Oi todos os meus novos amigos Brazillian
... time here in Frederico Westphalen and the surrounding district, we shall be sad to leave. We are learning a great deal about Brazil, one way or another, and sometimes feel we interrogate the few English speaking people here. We still use many hand ...
New Rotary Friends
Kiwi fruit and white chocolate on a pizza??? On Tuesday while we were walking along the road, Des and I met Rosa and her boyfriend Midas, (his name is really Maires, which I didn't know until he signed my plaster cast, but he’ll always be Midas to ...
ordem e progresso
... her good friends, who had lost their lives. Supposedly this kind of event is one of the most common manifestations of homicide in Brazil. It's how people die, especially when they try to escape. Many of the locals who I have told this story to have ...
Iguazu Falls
... Falls, a huge mass of falling water rivaled by few others, is located on a three way border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. As we are approaching from Paraguay, and are going to first visit the Argentinian side of the falls, we need to first ...
A nice place to pass the time in Brazil
... toe needed to be elevated and iced. The Police were called to make an incident report, so Lynn is now on record in Brazil. I really appreciate Lynn’s effort to keep up her end of our sensational trip through South America, but I think that’s ...
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 ...
Rotary Barbeque
Rotary Function Tuesday 17.11.09 It was a combined meeting of the two Rotary clubs in Federico Westphalen held in the BBQ area of the local aquatic centre. The celebration was for 3 Rotarians' birthdays and the visit of Des and I from down under, with ...
Samba in Sao Paulo
... with an estimated 20 million people from many nationalities, making São Paulo the most ethnically diverse city in Brazil; including Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Lebanese and Japanese (the largest Japanese community outside of Japan). Sao ...
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 Caranguejo Express
... a desperate situation - comes in handy. I knew - when looking at my large and detailed and expensive map of Brazil, purchased specifically to prepare me for the special situations which would inevitably arise while traveling in Brazil - that there ...
Double Booked
... we’ve eaten. So now we try to choose foods which are in some ways similar to ours. Some of the vegetables here in Brazil are pickled, I have to stay away from those. And off course, if I have too much of the delicious freshly squeezed orange juice, ...
The Last Leg
... of the country without a problem, but the bus driver didn´t stop at the Brazilian border and so I was never officially in Brazil (apparently this was because it was a Brazilian bus company and so they assume everyone onboard has the right to be there). ...
Dead caiman
... trip tomorrow to look around. I bet Lynn can’t wait to get into a car again. I must admit I’m enjoying our jaunts around Brazil on the buses. The service is good and I can take my computer on board and catch up with the pod journal on the long ...
Solo in Sao Paulo
... used by massive trucks with crazy loud sound systems - on top you find all the biggest music (pop mostly) stars in Brazil right now. Surrounding them are dozens-hundreds of people holding a rope and security policing who gets inside to follow freely and ...
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 ...
The Paris of the Tropics
I finally flew into Manuas in the heart of the Amazon after an insane few weeks in Rio. The air temperature was like a rush when I jumped off the plane. Before long I was at my hostel of choice and had hoisted my hammock up in my room with the ...
