On Thursday morning we woke up early to be ready to fly to Sao Paulo. Because of incredible mess with booking the shuttle to the airport ("oops I forgot" by the hostel staff) we had to take a taxi in the morning. Everything went well except that the flight was more than an hour late. Seems to happen quite often in this country, haha. In Sao Paulo we arrived to the Campinas airport about 90km from the city center but the bus was nice and the trip went fast. It was also nice to see some country side of Brazil on the way.

After exploring the huge bus station of Sao Paulo, buying tickets to the next destination and taking a metro trip we arrived to our new hostel, which seemed to be really nice. The hostel was full of Brazilian people, no tourists at all. We did a nice walking trip in the surroundings and saw a nice sunset. WITH AWESOME ICE CREAM!

Friday was the sightseeing day of Sao Paulo. Nice market places, carnival shops and super crowded streets. Oh well, if there are 19 million people in the city, you could expect that. We were wandering around the city center and walked through parks and shopping streets. The first a bit threatening situation was while walking through a wide pedestrian street on the way out from the city. A boy about 14 years old came next to us and started to point at Maiju's almost empty water bottle. He was saying something in Portuguese, but we didn't understand much. He was clearly not from a wealthy family and just kept on walking next to us. We tried to tell him that the bottle is ours, but the boy disagreed. Without any warning he wrenched the bottle from Maiju's hand and ran away. This time it was only a bottle of water, but it made us realize that if someone would do the same with our bags there is not much to do. Of course we can do something, but there is a limit how brave you really are to start argue and fight with people.. Let's hope that we don't need to experience that.

Sao Paulo was a nice city, but there was actually not that much to see. Of course the situation is different if you have friends, family and your life there, but as a tourist the city was a bit too big and complicated. It takes a long time to go everywhere because of the traffic and there are no actual sights. Sao Paulo was good experience still and we enjoyed seeing what the city was like. In the evening we took out backpacks from the hostel and took a metro to the bus station. At the station we had dinner and then it was the time to start the first real bus trip of our journey. 15 hours in a bus between Sao Paulo and Foz do Iguazu. Night buses are always a bit more dangerous, but this route was meant to be safer than many others.

We bought some snacks and drinks for the trip, but luckily we were able to sleep most of the trip. The buses in South America are really comfortable and everyone has lots of space to stretch their legs and have all the belongings close. The bus stopped every three to four hours and it was great to go out and walk a bit. We were the only people speaking English in the whole bus, but everything went really well and the bus didn't leave us anywhere. Something good in "looking different" - They always remember us.

One thing that is so difficult to learn is that you are not allowed to throw paper to the toilet. You never learn. The other thing that went even worse in Sao Paulo was the macho culture and people staring at us. We are starting to feel sorry for zoo animals that have to feel like this every day. Oh god. Not only the men, but also the women come to touch and we hear "que bonita" everywhere. People are funny!

Weather has still been amazing. Warm and sunny every day, yay! It was really nice to buy an ice cream and sit on the stairs of Sao Paulo's big cathedral the other day.

We have made a routine now of booking the next hostel every time we have bought the bus ticket to the next pit stop. This way we know when we are there and what the exact place is. We save money also by travelling at night. We're on a budget, you know!