We attended the annual EnerSolar Brasil Conference, which connects solar installers with customers and other suppliers
Dessert pizza immediately following "the incident" (ask Lia)
It's like caramel popcorn. Turns your tongue kind of red though!
Joe's homemade hat
Say hello to $30 worth of laundry! Why it is so expensive there I have no idea.
Overhead view of the Ibirapuera park
Odd to find outside a museum? Yes.
Ton of cool old wooden equipment--think we figured these things were used to crush sugar cane
This was our tour guide with the crazy long dreadlocks
Most bizarre museum exhibit I've ever seen...those are bananas in shot glasses on metal treelike things. No explanation.
Picnic after the museum
Complete with cashew juice
Went back to the craft fair near the music street. Made sure that I got the name of that street food thing I got last time (with chili, cheese, and chives inside a burrito-shaped breadbowl). It's called buraco quente. I got another, of course.
Cheapest alcohol I've ever seen. A 500ml bottle of 39% alcohol for a measly R $ 2.25, or exactly $1. This must be the shittiest cachaza ever. I haven't tried it yet and I think I'm going to test it out on my roommates. I'll have 9-1 dialed just in case.
Our first of 2 beach days. This is Guaraja, one of the closest beaches to Sao Paulo. It was still over an hour drive. Awesome beach though, the water was warmer in their winter than Hampton Beach is in July. And the waves were pretty huge, they were wicked fun to just roll around in.
Acai!
The metro
The visually-impaired guidelines are everywhere here!
It took forever to find...but R.I.P. Carnes is so worth it.
Later that night we used the hostel's grill and had a cookout. One of the best nights of the trip. Harrison and Lia made kabobs, Pano, Lex, and Mike cooked them up along with some lamb burgers. Joe and I struggled to light the grill. Chris and Arturo came through with lighter fluid from the grocery store though, and we were able to pull it off in the end.
The one and only cashew caipirinha. I told you that cashew fruit would come up again.
Meanwhile we all drank and ate and struggled through the freezing cold together.
For the best view in the city, we went to Terrazo Italiano, a really classy piano lounge on the 42nd floor.
The view at night is incredible. My pic doesn't come close.
This is the other sky bar that we went to, called SkyBar. It's not as high as Terrazo, but the view is still great.
The futebol museum. Really cool, its set up inside an old stadium. They had homages to all the best Brazilian players, and it was really very theatrical.
Kinect-like virtual futebol.
Capoeira is a martial arts/dancing activity that is very popular in Brazil and around the world. It's really cool to watch, check it out on youtube! We did a lesson but we were comically bad of course.
Fried in cornflakes!
There was a protest that caused a ton of traffic on the way back to the hostel that night. Our cab ride took an hour! There were people shaking a van, possibly trying to flip it. I tried to get a picture as we were going by but failed. Then I heard the next day about the protest in the news and that a media vehicle was damaged.
Went to Liberdade, the "Little Japan" of Sao Paulo
Ubatuba! Strongest currents I've ever seen and huge, unpredictable waves. Lots of surfers.
Abused my toe from beach soccer and climbing rocks.
Place where we stayed in Paraty and had a bedbug scare.
The street that floods every spring tide to help clean the city. Those Freemasons were pretty clever.
Women and Beer.
Smaller versions of the instruments used to make music for capoeira
$170 flip flops. NBD
Tomme cerveja = Drink Beer
Three of the four corners at every intersection had stonework, to make a triangle...oooh Freemasons.
Rasta boat!
Our boat--Nepituno
Caipirinha com frutas vermilhas (red fruits caipirinha) at Veloso.
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