Monday, February 4, 2013

Sunny in Brazil?

Hihi

We arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil the 31st of January.
We both had an adventurous trip to Brazil. It contained flight delays, overbookings, crowded airplanes, scary neighbourhoods and a lot of running or waiting for hours!
But we managed to get to Sao Paulo in one piece, what a relief! :)

Sao Paulo is a BIG city, with nothing really that interesting to do. Our main highlights were walking around the town, eating Brazilian food, and running into a pre carnival. At the pre carnival there were so many people, imagine the whole population of Iceland on one street!! It was CRAZY, to say the least :)

We were really surprized that NO ONE spoke a word in english. This is a big business city with a lot of international companies, so we had expected people to at least be able to say Hi, Yes or No! Luckily, Svanlaug speaks some spanish, which has been very helpful. The first day, Anna was alone in Sao Paulo and needed to find an ATM to pay for the hostel, but no one seemed to understand the word ATM untill she acted it out. Having played actionary really came in handy there!
Another thing we were REALLY surprized about, was that it has been raining the whole time since we got here! The sun came out for a few hours on saturday, and that has been it.

Right now we are in Paraty, a small beach town in the south of Brazil. Our journey to get here was rather interesting. We went to the busstation in Sao Paulo to get a ticket to Paraty but they were fully booked so we had to buy tickets to Ubatuba, and then needed to find another bus to Paraty. If you are planing on going
to Paraty, you should rather wait for a ticket straight to Paraty, because the bus from Ubatuba was really creapy! It was packed with homeless people and gangsters, and it smelled of vomit, pee and humid air! And this trip from Sao paulo to Paraty took us about 9 hours (instead of about 5 hours)!

We had hoped we could go to the beach and get a little tan, but we brought the rain with us from Sao Paulo!  We are exstatic about that!!

Untill next time,
Anna and Svanlaug :)

1 comment:

  1. Hopefully the sun will come soon, at least you're not missing any sun here in Iceland. I think creepy buses are a must tourist thing to experience in south america :D soo you were just lucky!

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