Last day in South America
Took a metro to Villa Madelena this morning. There are some very nice houses there and then walked to Ave Paulista which takes around 2 hours. Passed by Rua Teodoro Sampaio (which has many stores selling musical instruments) Oscar Freire (an expensive shopping area).
Met up with Thiago at Barra Funda on the west side at 1pm and visited the Latin American museum and a few others spots.
Thiago got us some pastels and sugar cane juice for lunch. Met Renan (a michael jackson wannabe)
in the Latin American museum and we went to Rock Galleria (mall for hippies and rock music enthusiasts) and Rua santa Ifigenia (a place selling all kinds of cheap electronics from China, they are all OEM products because Brazil has a high tax rate on branded electronic goods. You can get a 128G of USB thumb drive for around $25 or maybe less).
Someone tapped me on the shoulder while I was walking at downtown turned around and it was the malaysian guy I met few days ago. I can’t imagine how small is the probability to meet the same guy in this city of 12 millions twice.
Played soccer with some Brazilian kids at Thiago’s apartment and those kids do move fast and are very skillful, they live by soccer.
Had dinner at one of Thiago and Isis’s favorite restaurant.
One of the best part of the cow, I forgot the name
Then Thiago sent me to the airport. Had some issues with my passport at the airport because I am flying to Egypt after London and they thought I will need a visa and a yellow fever certification to Egypt. Cleared things up and managed to get on the flight and like always, Brazilians at the airport are very friendly and very easy going.
I am quite impress with Brazilian culture. Brazilians are very clean and neat people, no matter inside the house or on public road, it’s quite clean. People here respect the laws and follow it. For example, car doesn’t park on the parking line, apartments are quiet and people are considerate. Brazilians line up everywhere and I have not seen people cut queue so far. The most important thing is the friendliness of Brazilians, they are the friendliest people I have met so far.
nice! i wanna visit Brazil one day.. seems like they are really friendly to tourist =) haha lol… it cracks me up with the yellow fever certificate thing 😛
South Americans generally are very friendly but I think Brazilians are the friendliest..
Whoa! Thank you Wei Jen!
Maybe this guy in red are the most beatifull guy I saw =)
We are waiting to meet you again, you are welcome here forever!