Sao Paulo

In Sao Paulo arrived i had first of all bad luck with the weather. From time to time it was raining but not really heavy. The whole week in sp I spent at a couch surfing place. As i haven't surfed so much couches so far i was quite shy. Since the beginning Lucas said "feel at home". He was so relaxed and nice to me that i was believing to be at home together with him and his sister. I especially remember a chat about life,emotions and behaviour to our self. His mom died. She was working really hard before she got told to die. After that time she still understood to relax and to enjoy life before she died. Unfortunately my father did got that chance before he died. Actually we had the same story to tell :-). Lucas shown me the differences to people from south america and Europe. He said we don't understand to life in the present and actually for me that's 100% the case. I always wants to think about the next steps while i forgot to enjoy the moment. My go al for this year to change this!!!!

SP is really expensive place but this is for you guys nothing new. In Brazil you are often paying your food per kilo which is really really bad for me as i always eating abnormal portions. My friends from my previous company knows what i mean :-).

I was leaving in Paulista district which is actually really beautiful and one of the best area to stay. Paulista is close to Augusta street where you will find a lot of nice clubs like >>>clash

During the day i went to MASP gallery(brazil's best arts gallery) for free or was walking to the old city. Ok ok i didn't went the whole way by foot i took the subway as i like it to use public transportation. Sė and Lux subway station are nice to visit. At Praça da Sé you will find a cathedral (new gothic). While drinking some Sucos de Maracujá everthing is easy going. At Mercado Municipal don't buy you much fruits as they are really expensive there. Just taste some fruits and buy small things :-). A must for all Sp travellers is Parque Ibirapuera. I went there for almost one day(see pictures).

If you heading one time into paulista ave remember to eat your dinner insight the building on the opposite site from masp. There you can have buffet with no kilo limit for 9.9 BRL.

In Sp i joined a cs meeting? With 180 people in a small place it was really crowded. After that meeting we went to an rock party where i lost my german sim card. Don't know how :-). Please don't send sms to those number anymore. Will publish quite soon a new german number :-).

Thais thank you to taken me to the free samba concert and deliciouse bakery. Yummy the cake was nice. I hope to have one time the chance to show you my place whereever i will end up. Since Sp i started to eat cakes let see if it will helps me to become fet. Your tip about the free instrumental samba was just awesome. It was funny as i thought to go there alone but as i couldn't find the place i ask someone for the way. So i met Eric which went together with me to those place. Thanks for the hotdog man hope to see you one time in germany or wherever in the world.

As i stayed in Sp during a weekend i had the chance to enjoy the nightlife. Thanks Frix for the nice party. You knows how to make party. Even without to speak portugese i found a way to communicate with an lady from sp.

Before i left SP to Ihla Grande island i met Cathi a former schoolmate. She is working for Lufthansa as a flight assistant. Crazy how small the world can be. Just due to a Face msg i recognized that she is in SP. Thanks for the great afternoon and the long chat we had.

Manaus/Sao Paulo

From Manaus i took me the air plane to sao paulo as the rate for it was quite fair. I paid 172€. The flight was supposed to be at 23h but.... after almost 1hour power outage and i mean really everything went down no ups or whatever took place that means the whole airport area was absolutly dark. Manaus will be a place where games for the football worldcup 2014 will be shown. I guess till that time they have to improve the situation a littel bit. At the aiport while checkin and everything is really dark a nice feeling you should have it tried one time.

In Manaus i still had 38° and in sao paulo is just 23°  :-(

Amazonas/Manaus

After 5 days boat trip on the amazon i stayed some futher days in manaus. Unfortunatly i couldn't went into the jungle as i got seriously problems with my stomach. Two days on the boat and 3 days after i had crazy diarrhea might be caused by an parasite inside the water on boat as someone told me. Honestly such a strange diarrhea i did never had before. Fortunatly its now almost over and i could eat again normal. The last day on boat and in manuas i didn't eat anything as i couldn't. At the boat i spend some hours in front of the toilett :-)  Hehe thats fun and i was wondering that people from the crew of such transport ship where the englishman, scotsman and me went on didn't said anything to me either nor recognized me. The boat was realy nice it was an transport ship not a tourism boat so we had plenty stops where always plenty stuff was loaded . Just the tons of onions wasn't that much nice as if you have problems with your stomach and have to smell onions the whole time you could belive me i was quite often short before to vomit. So guys as i didn't went to jungle the adventure pic still have to wait but i will do the jungle tour in bolivia where its also much cheaper. Anyway i will post some pic in the next days.

Sleeping in a hammock was really nice except that there wasn't much space between each hammock so it wasn't unsual that sometimes the knie or foot from the neighbour came across :-) .

In manaus arrived i was first of all really happy to be able to buy me big bottel of cola and some mangos to help me with my stomach. Manaus was the first place in brazil where i could spend time in a park to enjoy the sun without to feel unsafe. An the park was clean even it was a public park.

Recife/Belem

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As mention in my last blog report i went to an festival which was surprise surprise street carnival where 100 thousands people was joining. It was just awesome! Sure i did took anything with me except some Brazil reais to buy me some beers as they didn't sold capis this time :-) So my friends no pictures so far but a guy i meet those days has someone taken that i'll hopefully receiving soon. After carnivals we went up in a salsa club. Wow they can dance what i still have to learn besides Portuguese :-). Maria you remains in my memory for those nice words like foot finger and mein fuss is kaputt. Maria was talking in German and English to me and i feel more and more worse that all doing their best to understand me but i can't still speaking Portuguese very well. The night was long and the morning came to early :-). This morning I had a really nice conversation with Olin from Los Angels. Men that really seldom to find someone who wants to talk about mental impressions. I keep you in my mind and will plan to heading over myself to burning men as you was telling me it. After this nice conversation with Olin i went to the central bus station where i planed to go to Fortaleza. After 12h bus ride i arrived Fortaleza in the early morning. After a nice fresh maracuja juice and nice talks to other backpackers and the feeling from my stomach i already decided to go on another bus ride. After additional 30h i arrived Amazons area Belėm. On such bus tours you could have good luck or bad luck in point of the neighbours sitting close to you. On the way to Fortaleza i was sitting beside a nice smelling lady but on the trip to belem actually the longer way i had not so nice smelling people besides me :-) also i had the place close to the toilet where i always had to close the door..Anyway i have to say those bus are in a really good condition i comparsion to Tanzania. @Sarah: I don't know if you follow my blog but you couldn't imagine how nice those bus are.

Still i haven't surfed any couch but the weekend before going on the boat with my hammock i will meet a couch surfer to go on a reggae festival. Afterwards i'll stay at her place. On the 22.10 when i am alive from the festival i guess it could going long and running crazy i'll start with an guy that i met in Belėm in a guest house the amazon boat tour. So i promise you more crazy fancy adventure picture afterwards.

Those days in Belėm i bought me a new phone. Who can believe that :-) I couldn't life with my motorola motofone anymore. It was already long time enough to have such a phone after my good nice old stolen samsung galaxy s1. I can tell you its was really nice buying where nobody understood each other due to languages..Wow with this phone i can now also listen music on the boat. As luck would have it that store where i bought me that phone where playing my favorite music >>>king of leons

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