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To Brazil

A travel blog entry by omkar

We started our honeymoon #22 to Brazil on this sunny and cold Thursday. We were scheduled to go to Sao Paulo (SP) and Rio De Janeiro (RJ) for a well-deserved holiday. Brazil, especially Rio, was a place which I always wanted to visit and this time there was a special reason too. One of my closest friends from the MBA, Stacey Tomasoni, had recently …

Sao Paulo Day 1

A travel blog entry by omkar

Today we had a late morning. We had planned to start the day at 12 so we woke up at a leisurely 10am. Quite unlike my usual 'rigorous holiday' schedule as Raakhee would call it, SP didn't have as many sights to see around so it didn't make sense to start too early anyways. We had breakfast at our hotel which was very good with a selection of hot …

Sao Paulo Rocks

A travel blog entry by omkar

Today morning was another late start to our day. After a late wake-up and breakfast, we had planned to meet Stacey and Marcelo at 12. Today our plan to go for a swim was thwarted by morning rain. Although light, it meant that the water was sufficiently cooler to not enter the pool. So after breakfast we unanimously decided to go back to bed :) …

Sao Paulo stop off

A travel blog entry by graybean

... no ordinary cemetery. We aren't talking your bog standard head stones, we are talking HUGE great shrines for people. It was the most extraordinary site. The pictures don't really reflect the size or impact of the place. The actual size of the cemetery itself was breath taking. Outside of the cemetery we counted i think 30 odd flower stalls as well all lined up.

It was also quite sad the amount of homeless people in and around Sao Paulo which we had ...

The End of my South American Journey

A travel blog entry by lizsandell

... in Ecuador or the one that said don’t email the Aussie girls after we’d met for one night.

The other thing is that in many ways travelling can be quite brutal (just ask those who’ve ever flown with Iberia long-haul). It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that is familiar and the comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. Travelling takes you away from ...