Sao Paulo
Travel Blogs from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Day 13 - Sao Paulo.
... the driver was so pedal heavy you couldn`t help but slide off the seat every 5 minutes resulting in hardly any sleep.So, Sao Paulo. 16 million people, rife with crime, pollution, prostitution. People have told us there isn`t that much to do here, and ...
Um dia bom em feio São Paulo
... , and the weather held out! You are allowed just five minutes to take a look at the really quite unattractive city of Sao Paulo, and I guess that five minutes is long enough for this pleasure in reality. The building itself if modelled on the ...
Sao Paulo
Arrived in Sao Paulo at a most ungodly hour, (can't even remember the time) checked into the Tropical Palace Hotel for few hours of zzzzzz's, had a pleasant lunch before embarking on our flight back to Johannesburg, anxious to be back with our loved ones ...
Bus pour São Paulo
... le bus est en plus tombé en panne. c'est donc à minuit et demi, apres 8h de bus qu'on arrive dans l'immense ville de Sao Paulo (environ 20 millions de personnes, la 5e + grande du monde) à 1h30, on se retrouve dans une voiture avec un argentin, un ...
Getting Started!!
Começamos o blog!! (9 dias antes da data da a viagem) No próximo dia 07 de outubro partimos (Bes e eu) para uma "aventura dupla" pelo CHILE!! (e uma partezinha da Bolívia) Por enquanto, ainda estamos tentando decifrar a logística de levar roupas e ...
Street savvy in Sao Paulo
... on the bus. It took some time to clear all the border formalities but we were soon on our way on the 17 hour journey to Sao Paulo. Buses in Brazil are not allowed to serve food so the bus made a few stops in the evening for food. We stopped at a roadside ...
big city
... .... What is seemingly endless though is this city! Flying in was remarkable at night, so many lights as far as I could see. Tomorrow we will explore a bit, and hopefully have good sushi(São Paulo has the biggest Japanese population outside of ...
Clubbing in Sao Paulo
According to Brazilians, the nightlife in Brazil, is meant to be best in Sao Paulo. So far in Sao Paulo, I´ve been to a few pubs, bars, an outdoor party and a samba club. What´s missing? A club of course. So last night we headed out to a club ...
Sao Paulo in transit
Hello again, We are in transit in Sao Paulo (Brazil) on our way to the Iguzzu falls which is on the border of Brazil, Paraguy & Argentina. We will be there for the new year & then heading to Monte Video. A nite bus awaits us as we are heading towards ...
Weekend trips
We went on two weekend trips to other cities in the state of Bahia. The first trip was to Morro de São Paulo, which is an island paradise a few hours off the coast of Salvador. It´s so remote that we had to take 2 buses, a ferry, and a speed ...
1st day in brazil
... hour of sleep - at 4 am i got up and went to train station - then flew from munich the coolest airport ever to sao paulo at 11.05 - i arrived in brazil - so humid so goooooodd.... i cought a bus and 2 metros and taxi to my frineds place that i knew from ...
buying my flight
So i got to tiete bus terminal bought my shuttle bus ticket with 10 min to spare and was off. slowly i noticed something most the people who were on my bus from curitiba where all heading to the airport as well... it sorta felt like i was on the ...
Araranquara - Uni starts - party does as well
... finally the mad part of my trip has begun. Yesterday i arrived here in Araraquara - a 200 000 people city 5 hours inland from sao paulo - a lot quieter han the 20 mil metropole! Here my friend Daniel who i was in Australia with picked me up - so ...
A quick stop in São Paulo
EN route from Paraty to the Pantanal wetlands in West Brazil, we stopped off for two nights in São Paulo. We had been advised that the city doesn´t have much for tourists, but with open minds we were determined to track down the cultural life of ...
Host Family and Jonas
Ahh conheci minha familia hoje pelo facebook! Encontrei algumas fotos e achei também o meu host brother da Suiça! Que doidera! :D AHUSHAUSUHASUHASUHAUSH a minha host mother me respondeu e ela já me perguntou se eu quero ir em um evento que vai ...
Endelig fremme!
... timer, orginal tid var 12,5 men et uventet stopp i Rio gjorde at vi satt stille i 3 timer! Da taaken tilslutt forsvant over Sao Paulo fikk vi lande 5 timer senere enn planlagt:) Etter en taxitur fra flyplassen var vi paa plass klokken 13 lokal tid og vi ...
Jetlag + big new city = bad times
After many flights and much travel-related hassle, including me very nearly getting stranded at Lisbon airport we arrived in Sao Paulo. It was apparently about 10pm local time but our body clocks were so messed up by going from Asia to South America via ...
Sao Paulo
... Sao Paulo is around 9 hours from Ilha Grande so we thought it best to break up the journey to Iguazu (another 15 hours past Sao Paulo) and spend a few nights. Once again not a whole lot of activities to report. Rob and Dave had a boys night out ...
Rodeo in Lethem and Back to School for Final Term
... provide an absolutely breath-taking horizon view from nearly anywhere in the Savannah. Lethem is also right on the border of Brazil, with only a small measly little river separating the two countries. The small town of Bonfin is right across the river ...
Home at last in Bahia!
We took a 2+ hour boat ride off the coast of Salvador, Bahia with Celo, Gui, and Cassio (Cau and others would come later), to our new island oasis home. No cars, no stress, only daily dilemmas, who gets what hammock, what beach to walk to, and which ...
Sao Paulo
... and received a first hand look at how the drink is made. Very strong but delicious. I couldn't finish it. Sao Paulo is a massive city with approximate 18million in the immediate city. Including outlying suburbs 20mill ...
Arrival!!
Day one, 20 hours of sleep! We stayed in São Paulo with Patricia, the friend of Josie´s mom and her husband Bruno. I had my first cream cheese stuffed crust pizza and my first Caipirinha here!! Fortunatley or not, this was the begining of a 6 month ...
Our first taste of Brazil
... , along with loads of beers at a café near the hotel. We then went to dinner with Ana to an Indian restaurant which had great food. Sao Paulo isn't really for travellers so we didn't see or do too much. The next morning we had to get the bus to Rio De ...
samo se shopping
... vrnila v Sao Paulo. Privoscila sva si hotel in sla v lov za darilca... neuspesno! Ocitno sva prvic spregledala, da je Sao Paulo predvsem poslovna prestolnica, ne toliko raj za shopping (kot drugi, bolj turisticni kraji - Rio, Paraty, Ilha Grande...), saj ...
Brotas - Adventure Sports
Nossa, fazendo esse travelblog agora, to sentindo como se tivesse entrado numa cápsula do tempo e voltado há 10 anos atras! Sim, realmente fazem 10 anos, foi em 1998 que fomos pra Brotas, eu, Papai (muitas vezes chamado de Papito), Tati, a irmana e a ...
São Paulo
... big fans of bus rides?! Next stop Foz do Iguaçu. We're playing it smart this time and have booked a ridiculously expensive sleeper bus. Brazil has given the bank account a bashing, so lucky we'll be moving on to cheaper pastures in a couple of days when ...
Sao Paulo
... ;Monday. The day upon which nothing is open (no museums or the like anyhow). Considering Sao Paulo is considered the cultural city to visit in Brazil, hence my trip, this did not bode well. I spent the day wandering around the Centro ...
At Efren's
... . By the time I got to the ticket counter, I was already sketching out in my mind the massive vuelta, which will take me to Brazil's north east, into the Amazon, then Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and only then Argentina. We'll see what actually ...
3rd n 4th day Sao Paulo
So i finished mz stay with the CERVEJADA - a beer party organized by one of the good unis here - free beer all night - cazy - life bands and stuff - pretty good night - if i hadnt poisened myself later at some fast food place. God really sick but feel ...

