Sao Paulo wasn?t exactly where we wanted to be when we returned to Brazil, especially after having stayed in a dump the first time round and the crappy weather, however we started to appreciate it a lot more the second time, as we stayed in a nicer area and met some really fun people in the hostel we were at.  After having travelled from the ?end of the world? to half way across the continent on Rakhee's birthday, we arrived shattered the following day in a ve...

We arrived to the madness of Sao Paulo late evening, and completely underestimated the size of the city. After a tiring trek around the `cheap hostel district` to find somewhere to stay, we ended up in a dodgy looking hotel and dumped our bags. Our hunger had made us pretty much crazy, so we dashed on the metro to the area full of Japanese restaurants. There is a massive Japanese community in Sao Paulo, and the food was literally calling us, so we had sushi and...