Sao paulo day 1 on saturday Morning 8 am we left the hotel and say goodbye to my dad and mascha. And thank them for the Nice joying in RIO!! They also left back to the Netherlands. Thank u!!! Our first bus experience from rio to sao paulo whas started! And good. It was an 6 our trip but the bus whas good and i had enough space. Arrived in sao paulo. We where in a hurry we had to Find out How the metro worked and Where we had to go for our hostel! Almost 6 Pm and Arrived in our hostel. Finnely time for a beer and get shocked. Yes shocked! Sao paulo whas totally diverend from what we expected. We that we Arrived somewhere in europ Or central America. And not because of the buildings. No.. because the people Where more friendly from the streets in the metro everywhere. This is a business and student city. At the moment we Where enjoying our beer. A girlfriend Arrived, an old collega who worked with Us in Belgium and lives in sao paulo. She helped Us alot by planning what we have to SEe and do on sao paulo in a limited of time. She bring also 2 friends of her. What whas Nice to have Some confersations, especialy when they ask what we thought About the brasillian food, because in rio it whas just oke. It whas already dinnertime so we whent straight on to an locale brasillian food restaurant. Where we al took a diverend classic dice so we could tast everything. This whas there first step to make a diverend in our way of thinking About there food culture, a good step! After that we went to a bar Where we finnished our evening. This whas a bar from a famous chef in brasil And they make classic cocktails with an brasilian twist, REALLY COOL!!
Sao paulo day 2 this whas a busy day. We first went on her advice to Some museums and parks on the meanstreet. Because the street whas sunday the street whas blokked and there Where a lot of street artest and there whas also a marathon. So With the Nice weather we dicided to go early on our way and took a Nice few from the city and the mass museum, went to a history museum, the house of and old poatry wrider and. Went to the Japan house. At 13 o’clock we went with her to the old down town Where we went in an big marked. Here we could tast Almost Every fruit, nuts and cheese. And Where they try to sel Us 3 kiwi’s for 75 rael ( 20 euro ). So Nice to had this seen but to expencief. After this we walked true the old city center and passes Some nice buildings and Some old gouverment buildings and to a famous church what whas really beautiful to see to get an idea of How sao paulo had to look like in the old times. Unfortunely there Where a lot off baggers and poot people here and not like rio the policy here do nothing About it. After the church we went to an restaurant who only cooks pork, the hole pork and only on brasillian style. Just one woord… AMEZING!! You could order everything and they made Some Nice dices with it even in the desserts and with the coffee, pork it is!! After that we went to they exclusief Side of sao paulo, the place Where the most of the tourist are. Here we went seeing the badman ally Where Every painter has there own part and they can make a Nice story or art what they change Every 3 months. Because food is really importend in sao paulo. She took us to Some spots Where in the night they make some street food and have looking dinks and food. Remember it is sunday and everywhere on the streets you’ll see life. From there we past the meanstreet of this area Where there Where Some big night clubs and salsa clubs, lines Where on the streets, Yes really busy. Because we had a long and intensive day she took Us to a brasilian beer pub Where we had a Nice time to finish our day: this pub had a really Nice concept and Almost only brasillian beers what are mostly like belgium and american beers.
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