Where in the world is Lani?

So I have arrived in Brazil - São Paulo to be precise - after another long leg of travels and connections through Peru and a 45 minute cab ride once I got into the city.

São Paulo reminds me alot of Sydney, except its massive. The city has an area of 1,523 square kilometres and a population of just over 11 million people, which makes it the second city of the world after Tokyo, and the most populated in the Southern Hemisphere.

People from the city of São Paulo are known as paulistanos, so thats what i´ll be calling myself for the next few days! I noticed a load of Japanese people on the flight over here, and on closer inspection I found out that more than 1 million people living in São Paulo are direct or indirect descendants of Japan. São Paulo has the largest number of Japanese outside Japan, so I am making a bee-line for the nearest sushi shop to test it out!

São Paulo is reported to be quite a dangerous city (in the rough areas), but luckily for me the hostel I booked is located in quite a safe neighbourhood. I think that there can be dangerous places anywhere in the world, so its just a matter of taking caution and being careful.

On my first afternoon here I went for a brief wander of the streets and its really just a massive cityscape here - I think that you could travel for kms and kms out of town and still get out of the bus/train/car to the same backdrop of skyscrapers and multi storey apartment blocks.

Ive got my map, now its time to explore.....

Until next time

Lani