Sao Paolo

Starting in Madrid on the 27th of June, heading to Santiago de Chile/Vina del Mal/Valparaiso and then north to Bogota. Flying back to Zurich/Madrid on the 2nd of October from Sao Paolo

... an "Urban Jungle". In this city of 20 million people, the wonderful Brazilian green was replaced with practical and cheap Sao Paolo grey. Once again we found it difficult to communicate with the Brazilians. Nobody understood our next to nothing ...

... sign of poverty and as soon as you step into the outer zones, you are surrounded by Shanty towns. It´s a sad world. My stay in Sao Paolo lasted for 2 days and I decided to head out to Recife to see my friend from School, Carolina, whom the last time ...

... sambarumpujen ansiosta hyvana kansan laulaessa ja tanssiessa kylmissaan. Peli oli kuitenkin surkeaa ja ylimielinen São Paolo sai maalittoman 90 minuutin jalkeen turpiinsa rankkareissa. Lounaana tuli muuten nautittua jumalainen perinnesapuska ...

... of traffic to the extreme. It's hard to get anywhere - and it's best just to use the metro. The diversity of Sao Paolo's population is wonderful and refreshing, and especially stark after living in the land of those-of-European descent in Argentina. ...

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 ...

... late at night! Nice fruit salad for breakfast followed by a questionnable omlette. Still have no idea what the green filling was!! On landing at Sao Paolo we had to wait for a stand to be free. Great after 11 hours flying! As I got off the plane I was ...

... and got checked in without a hitch. They served breakfast on this first flight - bread, cream cheese, and cookies. Yum. Flying over Sao Paolo was quite an experience. I think it's the biggest city I've ever seen - 26 million people live there. It ...

Flew to Sao Paolo then took a bus to Foz Du ...

... group of ozzie rugby players to end up ahead.  Cant see this system working in Australia! Other things I enjoyed in Sao Paolo: - Visiting the park in the centre of the city (forgot the name,sorry), which feels almost like a piece of ...

So we finally gave up on trying to get around in Bolivia and flew straight to Sao Paulo in Brazil. Sao Paulo is a big modern city full of sky scrapers, and a shopping mall full of top brand name shops - and a book shop which sold Lonely Planets to ...

... there mesmerised. Back up the hill to our hotel we went and were asleep by 1am for the 6am wakeup. Here we sit now in Sao Paulo in the Diners lounge. I feel sad to be leaving Brasil. Now discovering Salvador, next time we come we´ll give ...

... in the evening. This was definitely the best hostel so far!!! Before I came here, I´d been told that there´s not much in Sao Paolo, and...they probably were right, however, we did go to all the main sights, like Downtown, which to me looked a lot ...

... , during the slave trade made their way from the north to the south to work on the coffee and sugarcane plantations in Sao Paolo State.  The largest sugarcane production in Brasil (and likely in the world) occurs in Sao Paolo State.  Following ...