Sao Paulo Stories


Vivid Valparaiso

Vivid Valparaiso Sunday 6th March 2011 We are now stuck at the airport again, this time at Sao Paulo, the delay is not due to an earthquake but we had been booked onto a flight to Manaus which does not go on Sundays! It was a sort of “virtual flight” However we are on a later flight but will not arrive until the middle of the night. Considering...


Sao Paulo

We arrived in sao paolo bus station at 3 in the morning and were worried about whether it would be safe to stay in the bus station, but as it turns out it was very busy with loads of ppl waiting for the metro to open at 4.30. The purpose of our visit to sao paolo was really to break up our long trip down to florianopolis. We only stayed one night and di...


In Tandem

The things we remember about Sau paulo were things like a whole street dedicated to wedding Tracy and myself deceided to go into Sau paulo centre while we were there after booking into our hotel, the Radisson SAS Faria Lima.We headed toward a large man made Christmas tree outside the gate to a large park. This park had an art gallery, which ended up bei...


Bem Vindo a Palmital!

Bem Vindo a Palmital! meaning Welcome to Palmital! is the first phrase you hear as you get off the bus. Such a name was given to the town because in the past this place was full of palm trees. Particularly, I chose this place for two reasons, the first one is obvious but the second is for "curiosity" because the first time I had visited Brazil, I overhe...