2 Days in Sao Paolo

Emily and I had a great time in Sao Paulo, thanks partially to her friend Jose.  He drove us all around on Saturday showing us all the highlights of Sao Paulo finishing with a futbol game at his favorite local team Palmeiras which is one of the top 5 teams in Brazil.  They demolished a lower level team 5-1 but it was great to witness the fans going crazy everytime there was one of the goals.  And emily found it amazing that the hard core hooligans can literally spend not only the 90 minutes of the game non-stop screaming but also an hour before the game and during half time without any breaks. 

above is the team logo and below is Emily, me, and Jose at the game

On sunday emily and i decided to try the city ourselves.  We went to this great japanese market in a neighborhood called Libredade (also known as JapanTown) held every sunday morning and had some delicious street food (i chose the stand that seemed to have the most asians at it).  We also were looking through a japanese supermarket and i was thirsty so i bought a can of gourd juice.  Lets just say it was the most delicious drink ever (after irn-bru. which if you dont know is a scottish soda).  Next we did evidentally what every paulistian (a native a sao paulo) does on Sundays and went to one of the major parks in sao paulo (Parque Ibirapuera) which was recommended to us by the hostel we stayed at and emilys friend Jose.  It was a great enjoying time where you can spend hours walking around just like in central park.

The goard juice bought randomly in Japan Town in Sao Paulo...it was delicious

Ugly duck we found in the park

Emily in the Park

Besides that we are now in Salvador (not the country El Salvador, but a city in the Bahia State of Brazil).  We will update about the city later.