Buenos Aires - Argentina

Qantas reissued new flight tickets for me, so I can travel to Chile tomorrow.

Buenos Aires is very European city with typical European architecture, streets, people and there is not so bad trafic as in Sao Paulo.
People dress well and city cafes are full.
(sorry no photos because of camera theft)

There is a lot of turists in B.A. and (world is small) I met three girls at the hostel and they are from the same county in the UK where I live at the moment. There are also Americans, Australians, Belgian, Brazil, German people at the hostel.
Most of them travel or intend to travel around Latin America for couple of months.

Buenos Aires - Argentina

Many thanks to my father and sister!
They sent me cash over fast money transfer service.

Also many thanks to Slovak Ambassador to Argentina.
He gave me advice and is contacting British Airways and Qantas to help me with my airline tickets.

I asked my travel agency to regenerate my paper tickets (not electronic tickets, so sometimes they cannot be regenerated, I hope this is not my case).
At the moment I am waiting for the response.

And this is the story how they rob pure Europeans:

It happened 400 meters from my hostel when i was looking into the map for the right direction to my hostel someone threw bad smelling liquid on my backpack and jacket and almost immediately came two people (man and woman) to help me clean, they spoke Spanish and English and when they dissapeared, my smaller backpack disappeared too.

NOTE: never carry cash with you.

Buenos Aires - Argentina

Some fucking bustards stole me everything yesterday when I arrived to the town centre.
(Credit cards, all cash money prepared for my trip - around 800 pounds sterling, digital camera, airline tickets, ID, driving licence, telephone ...)

I have my passport and bigger backpack with clothes, medicines, sleeping bag and tooth brush :) OK.

I am going to investigate if I am able to continue with the trip.

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

So this is winter on Copacabana beach

Cristo Redentor monument and panorama from the hill where it is located:

Rio is city with very holiday like atmosphere.

And you are more likely to meet someone who speaks english :) .

Today I am taking the bus back to Sao Paulo and early in the morning I will board the airplane to Buenos Aires.

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Erico and Ana are great open Brazilian people who are always ready to help.

We are eating Slovak food Halusky and Brazilian food Rice with beans and maniok.

Yesterday in the evening I took the coach (six hours of travelling in very comfortable coach) and I´ve arrived to Rio.

I´ve successfully found inet cafe and my hostel on Botafogo beach.

Sao Paulo - Brazil

It´s quite hot here in the third largest city on the Planet.
Between 25 and 30 degrees Centigrade. And it should be winter season on the South Hemisphere.

It is unbelievable trafic here and cars and pedestrians often break the traffic rules.

very clean and effective Metro (subway)

I am using my body language everywhere, bus station, metro station, train station, fastfood, shops, museums, because almost nobody speaks English (Except an Argentinian girl and a guy from Brasil, I met at the hostel I took accommodation after the arrival).

Then after couple of days I contacted Erico and his wife Ana over the

www.hospitalityclub.org/

web page. He works as an automation engineer (project manager) for an american company Rockwell Automation in Sao Paulo. I´ve studied automation as well. He offered me an accommodation in their spare room in their flat and took me to his office and factory for an excursion next day we met. He introduced me to all of his colleagues :)

Rockwell Automation factory department:








We went also to a typical Sao Paulo pizza restaurant.

You can serve yourself some kind of soups and sauces and then you sit down at your table and every three minutes restaurant staff will come to your desk with 1000 + 1 types of pizza and offers you a piece. You can eat for the whole evening if you like. And everything except drinks is included in price 8 reais (2 pounds )


Sao Paulo "Empire States building"







MASP Museum of modern art:



Cathedral da Se:

Sao Paulo - Brazil

Sao Paulo is a nice city, it looks like nobody controlls the architecture, you can see a skyscraper close to a family house and very few people speak english.
And because I don´t speak portuguese (Brazilian internet cafe keyboard and Windows version) so sorry for the wrong twist of the pictures.

Before the journey

Yes, I've decided to travel around the world to extend my horizons and get some personal experience with far-away people and places.
My trip will start on 15 June and I will use UK airline services (yes, aeroplane, I am not so brave to travel by train, bus and elephant :)
I'll visit places:

Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Santiago de Chile (Chile)
Auckland (New Zealand)
Sydney (Australia)
Bangkok (Thailand)
Singapore
Chennai (India)
New Delhi (India)
and back to Reform Club (London :)

I'll spend around one week in every location so I should return to London on 14 August 2007, I hope.