Downtown Campinas - about 2 hours from Sao Paulo. This is the city where the wedding was held. Can you see the McDonald's sign in the middle? Ah American fast food is everywhere. There was also Burger King and Pizza Hut. We passed and enjoyed real and amazing Brazilian foods.
Sunset from our hotel on Ilhabela - an island about 3.5 hours from Sao Paulo. Unspeakably beautiful. I think I could live there...oh yeah it was just a vacation:) Gotta wake up!
We drove for many kilometers on a dirt/mud road to get to the actual beaches. It was way too cold for this girl to even put on shorts but still very pretty. The food - again- was excellent.
This is the little town of Ilhabela. I enjoyed driving all over the island and a big part of Brazil. The hardest part - after driving in Ghana - was trying to dicipher the road signs that were all written in Portugese. Not an easy task. But I have to say that we found the men and women there incredibly friendly and helpful. People helped us with directions, buying things, etc. etc. They did it with smiles and really pleasant attitudes. It was very nice.
This is a picture of one of the poorer settlements around Sao Paulo. I believe I was told that it is a city of 10-12 million people and has more street kids than any other city in the world. A whole different world from Ilhabela.
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