Sao Paulo, Brazil

Last Update 19 June 2006 | 0 Comments

Sao Paulo is the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere with 17 million inhabitants, and it was amazing to fly for 15 minutes and still be over the city. It must be a huge challenge to effectively provide services (electricity, water, sewerage) to a city this size!

We stayed at the Marriot airport hotel for the night. Afetr we checked in we were given a welcome drink. A scary local cocktail, which made straight Tequila seem like a kiddie’s cooldrink. After that we wisely went to bed early seen as our bodies believed it was horribly late. The next morning we all woke up at our usual South African wake up time (1am local time!) Then off to the airport and onto an Avianca plane (Colombian national airline) for a 5 and a half hour flight to Bogotá in Colombia, with another two time zones lost. We stayed in Colombia for a week for work and then returned to Sao Paulo for a day on our way back to South Africa. Check out the Bogotá category for that story.
In Sao Paulo we did a half day tour of a small section of the old city. Plenty of history!

 

 

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