total bang everybody
today ivana and i will be reviewing the metro here in sao paulo now obviously sao paulo has 12 and a
half million people and for this reason it has the largest metro in all of latin america so it has 91
stations and believe it or not it moves more than 5 million passengers every day whoa for context
that's the entire population of los angeles plus another million people that's impressive it's how
many people get on the metro every day so you see the map there looks very robust and quite nice
of course there is a above ground rail and bus system connected to that we have taken the above
ground trains before and our experience there was they seem pretty new and quiet and safe and clean
and to be honest we've also taken the metro before the underground train but we were a little nervous
it was our first week in sao paulo yeah we didn't want to bring the big camera so we do have some
phone clips but obviously if you guys have been following our channel you know that our opinion
has changed so much about brazil and we think it's safe and we think it's awesome and we love this
place and so today we will bring the big camera down below the surface and review the metro so we
will be taking the yellow line which is the newest line on the metro so maybe it's the fanciest and
the most uh modern yeah we're also going to take it to the fanciest neighborhood in sao paulo
oscar ferrari i think that's how you pronounce it good good job ivana so potentially the
fanciest metro line on the way to the fanciest neighborhood let's go next stop below the surface
let's go by the way what are these for i see them all over sao paulo i'm not sure what it's for
anyway next stop the metro
we're going to the ticket office because we don't have the card the metro card right people
can just you know use so we'll go purchase a single use ticket from the ticket counter okay
now i wonder if this station will be the same as one of the first ones we went on
where it was like two or three stories underground right remember that was very funny
it's actually pretty deep so we'll see if there's any trains on this level in barca
boarding and ticket office this way yeah see this is similar to our first experience where um
one story underground no trains yet must keep going lower
sort of reminds me of south korea except in south korea every level has a train your your
particular train might be five or six stories below and every level has another line on it
pretty cool so far so it looks pretty clean i would say no yeah pretty almost brand new
this line beside it it's like office buildings maybe not i don't know why
it's so deep underground you know yeah good question it could be easier construction maybe
the ground was no good or maybe there's stuff nearby that's already got a basement in it yeah
but we've been underground twice two two stories and no trains yet kind of funny
i will say it looks perfectly clean and new this line was finished in 2010 so it's only 10 or 11
years old is this the newest line in sao paulo the newest line in sao paulo so the yellow light
the yellow line and so let's see if we can find the ticket office there's a cool tunnel
oh look at this i feel like an astronaut
some sort of futuristic thing yeah exactly super nice super clean also empty because it's um
like 11 a.m on on a saturday so not exactly very busy but uh this is a very funky tunnel though
oh i feel like an astronaut going for launch
and down again tell me we're four escalators down no and even more
holy jumping
tell me we're five escalators down no more more
maybe they built it like this with plans of uh holy jumping sorry i'm sorry
one two three four i think we're five stories below even wow well here we go i think we've
made it to the trains fantastic here we go and we'll buy some tickets here fantastic we got it
all right so pretty affordable and my understanding is this single use ticket
will get you as many transfers as you want i think that's true i think that's true you
can transfer to other lines for one fare obviously the rechargeable card stations
and then this is where we'll go all right sounds good so far so good
so far so good yeah here's the map super robust you guys tell us at the beginning the yellow line
we're going here from
here so only two stops yes but the other day we went all the way here we transferred and went
down to europa and this line i think this one is the older trains right here and the newest line
is the yellow line right but even our experience on the older train it didn't seem old or dirty or
we were sort of overreacting we were nervous it might be kind of dangerous but it was fine
they're on uh above the ground right so the this one is underground right it's so deep
yeah five stories underground yeah okay let's go i don't know how many lines they are but in toronto
where we're from we only got maybe three lines the u shape a little strip and another little
strip on top yeah three lines yeah three lines but i think they have 15 actually something like that
yeah it seems brand new it also seems massive in here oh look at this
from left to right from here to here okay uh okay sounds good and another escalator going down
i swear i'm 100 feet below the earth's surface did your ears pop
and i have the safety oh very nice door right right right
quite a nice subway really isn't it quite a nice metro
i sort of love the style it's kind of like a um industrial style the way you've got the steel
columns still visible and it's sort of in a steel or like concrete silver tube kind of cool cord of
sort of cool it's like an industrial uh purposely unfinished you can see all the girders and stuff
quite nice it still looks pretty brand new look at this it's so clean and yeah more or less brand
new and very nice that the subway reaches the airport this is a key fact for the metro
oh i love the noise when the next stop comes it's like uh
it's like a saxophone i didn't notice that before still relax
pretty nice metro no more or less feels like it's brand new almost yeah it's very fast
and you're right it felt very fast when i watched the train from the top
it looked even faster right super nice
all right so not one not two not three but four escalators on the way out and i think it was
six escalators on the way in wow wow so for some reason they're very deep here in uh sao paulo hey
paulistanos are very deeply deep kind of people but here we are at uh oscar ferreira i think it's
the most expensive most fancy part of sao paulo maybe we'll do a quick adventure here go forward
maybe we'll find some coffee or something some snacks let's go let's go
certainly the nicest flip-flop store i've ever seen wow
holy jumping it's like a beach in here what a store
can i just buy everything it's amazing this store is so profitable selling only flip-flops
you would think by now they had shirts and shoes and i mean there's oh they have some okay some
but realistically it's mainly flip-flops and i even think there's a build-your-own flip-flop
counter over there which is something i've never seen before and i love how the people
working here are actually wearing like almost like beach pajamas hawaiian kind of this whole store
is a vibe man the whole store is a vibe nicest flip-flop store i've ever been to maybe nicest
store i've ever been to look at this dude the stores are going all out over here look at this
almy i don't even know what they sell but it's a nice store holy holy jumping
i tell you what ivana feels like i'm back in canada
because everyone's driving an suv over here wow true right everywhere look i see suvs big trucks
oh my gosh there's like shopping heaven too bad it's out of my budget okay this is all
brand names i guess and uh like maybe local and international designers super
duper nice area the street corners alone are amazing with the huge trees and the fancy
stores and everybody is so well dressed lots of sandals to be honest i feel out of place
i'm not the kind of guy for new clothes the shorts i'm wearing i've had for almost 10 years and they
recently ripped and i broke my heart so i sewed them together in a homemade sew job i feel like i
feel like everybody's staring at my shorts going look at this guy i know you're under the dress
here i feel uncomfortable uh just stripping reminds me of like bloor street in toronto
i was gonna say or like bay street or something something really uh fancy pants bay street anyway
should i should i include a clip of my shorts show them the sew job that's kind of embarrassing
kind of embarrassing anyway take my word for it there's a really homemade sew job on my shorts
all right found a super nice cafe here super quiet and nice maybe some sort of starbucks equivalent
i was tempted to get this piece of cake and or bread looks super nice but i guess we'll go for
a proper lunch i wanted to end the vlog by saying this we started in sao paulo worried about safety
we were worried about potential issues we might have and obviously that was a little bit naive
to think there's a city of 12 million people where every part of it is sort of dangerous
um so maybe you can call me naive steve but it's so funny that we started at that point
and now we're in an area where everyone is so well-dressed and formal it makes me feel
uncomfortable and makes me feel nervous what a big change you know what a big change yeah super
nice cafe and the whole area here was super duper nice every street corner and every street really
nice and even the metro yeah i would say a very nice subway system
uh they even have a security guard in the train on the train there was a security guard
so in the end what a big change from one month ago until now and then i guess tomorrow we'll
leave sao paulo after one month yeah from starting worrying about safety two in the
end worrying about being not uh not formal enough and don't wanna leave yeah exactly loving it so
much be careful in sao paulo you might fall in love you might be careful in sao paulo
you might fall in love it's true sao paulo is dangerous dangerous you'll never leave
oh ivana you're the best okay thanks for watching guys see you in the next let's enjoy our
lunch let's enjoy some lunch and then we'll see you the next vlog later skater
normally in brazil i would get a small cup of coffee when you order something
it's huge here i love it my style
it's as big as a bowl of soup which is actually just the way we like it here so cheesy