so we just came across this coconut stand and we are going to get a coconut water
that's the street food you'll see all around brazil potatoes of chicken
we've heard from multiple people that it's not safe here is very popular in brazil
good morning guys we have arrived in sao paulo this is our first day here
and we are taking an uber to our airbnb so we're gonna give you a little tour of our airbnb
and scope out the neighborhood where we're staying today might be kind of a low-key
day because we have an overnight flight and we're a little bit tired
so we are checking into our airbnb right now
and we had to put our passports in there and this is all glass that they're protected with
so that was a lengthy secure process with putting our passports in the container they couldn't
go anywhere near us fingerprints both of us pictures of us you take up our masks for pictures
let's go check out our place we have uh eight floors to go
okay so this is our tiny room it's about a quarter of the size of a typical hotel or something it's
just a bed with enough space on each side barely to walk alex was very surprised by the
size he thought he was getting a little bigger of a room yeah but let's see if we have a view
a little bit and we have a free shirt here oh no take a look at this
not bad
i like all the greenery in brazil even in the middle of a big
city you have like a jungle down there
and we're paying about 20 a night for this place so we have a little mini fridge sink microwave
mini kitchen mini desk it's quaint it's cute in our bathroom
small as well but we have a shower so that's good and we both want to shower because we are stinky
and dirty flying traveling for two days about 50 hours straight
so we're gonna shower take a nap and then we'll show you sao paulo brazil we just woke up from
a much-needed nap we got showered up and we're ready to go explore sao paulo so this is our
first impressions of brazil first day here so sao paulo is the biggest city in south america
so this should be interesting and there should definitely be a lot to see
first off of the day we're getting some coffee at this wall here we got a couple different coffees
i got a chocolate and this is what like a latte yep got the reason we wanted to film this for
you guys is because each of them comes with one of these we've never seen this before we just
got to brazil so we have no idea so we're gonna see we don't know how to take this or what is it
it's like a club soda so like a carbonated water
i don't know if this is supposed to be before or maybe you wash it out after with this lindsay's
gonna try her latte look at this sugar she has put in it's like a crumbly brown sugar
mix up the chocolate in this chocolate it's not super sweet even with the sugar but the flavor
of the coffee is actually really good so you don't really need sugar so we just tried to look it up
and it looks like this might be for cleansing your palate so in that case i guess you would
have it before having the coffee so that you get the full flavor of the coffee after well
i already finished my coffee so i guess we're doing this a little backwards we just finished
our coffee so we're good to go for the day and we're gonna go walk around and explore
so one thing we've learned from the locals here is that it's not safe to bring out your camera or
your phone like this so it's going to be a little bit difficult while we're in brazil or at least
when we're in the big cities it's a film like this which is actually really interesting because
as you guys know alex has traveled all over the world and he has never really felt unsafe while
filming but we definitely don't feel totally comfortable filming based on just what we've
heard we've heard from multiple people that it's not safe even locals yeah so sometimes when you go
to a new country you'll hear that it's dangerous and when you get there you feel totally safe but
in this case you definitely see that it could be potential for kind yeah we'll see how it goes but
we're gonna film just little segments on iphone for now while we were researching we found out
that palista where we are now is actually one of the safer neighborhoods so that's why we can sell
now we're gonna look for some street food hopefully we can find some or at least
some breakfast somewhere because it's already about one o'clock we're a little bit jet-lagged
so we just came across this coconut stand and we are gonna get a coconut water
okay we got a coconut and it was safe so about a dollar u.s how was it it's good
uh so when you're in sao paulo and brazil in general you're gonna see these coconuts for sale
all over wow that's good just straight over there refreshing and brazil is hot so
this is definitely not cheap okay so now we're gonna walk around sao paulo and give you our first
impressions and this is the fifth largest city in the entire world there's people everywhere so
we're only gonna cover a small part of it because it's huge we're gonna start right here we are in
we're getting uh so it has potato and a meat this one is chicken and it's nine
so nine that's about a little under two dollars so it's a street food you'll see all around brazil
you know this is gonna be good because the grease is coming out of the bottom there
it's hot so a breaded little conical ball think about it potatoes a chicken chicken with some
kind of sauce that's good so we got this to start and we are on our way to a restaurant
to have some lunch we found out that today is election day so there are less people out also
it's a sunday so it's pretty common that a lot of things are closed or closing early on sundays
but we'll do our best we're gonna find something starting with this one
and we'll try to show you some other brazilian foods we'll see what we find
we heard brazilian food is amazing everyone raves about the food so far
mm-hmm
one thing we've noticed that we really like about the city is how green it is
it's kind of what you would think about brazil like the jungle and everything but
it's cool that even in the big cities you'll get things like this like that right in the center
all over there
they have beautiful jewelry here okay finally after hours and hours we are at our restaurant
for our first meal of the day it's probably four o'clock already
and uh we're gonna get some drinks i got a camerina and i got uh manga vegeta
i got it with kiwi so i don't know if we're trying new things hopefully they're good
they both come with vodka uh we're still trying to figure out some of these words like we wanted
to try like a new fruit but sometimes we don't know if it's even a fruit at all so we can't just
get it and not know so we're going to learn some of these things ordering in a different country
in a completely different language is very difficult we try to use google translate but
a lot of the things don't translate into english sometimes you just gotta guess we're gonna have to
study a little more for tomorrow we just got our drinks this is my mango vodka drink and
i'm not sure if it is or not it's a kiwi one but it looks it doesn't even
look green i don't know it looks different than the ones we've tried in the past but
this is strong this is so sweet there has muscle to it like shots wow it tastes like straight vodka
that's probably like a third vodka
that's pretty much all we taste these are about five dollars each
wow we're probably going to be drunk after this one little drink
i'll do anything of something non-alcoholic for a second
a little break from vodka all right our food just arrived i ordered a fettuccine with more gonzalo
butter and filet mignon here is picana so it's kind of it's a cut of beef that's very
popular in brazil it comes with some rice some fries and then we're not sure yet what this is
i really don't know like a polenta or something
it doesn't have a lot of flavor
that's good okay you guys i am not a big
meat person but i just took my first bite of the filet mignon and it is so good filet
mignon in the united states is super expensive but like i said my dish is only about seven
dollars
you guys look at this brazil is so fun and lively it's amazing
oh
okay we just came by this jungle looking place in the middle of the city and it's just this
beautiful park unexpectedly in the middle of nowhere like right when you walk out here
there's this super busy streets tons of people and then here you feel like you're in a rainforest
and it's called uh parque trion something like that uh yeah there's just the road right here
hundreds of cars and then you have all of these trees there's probably some wildlife in here
i'm guessing it smells like the jungle so we told you we were going to give you our first
impressions which we kind of have throughout the day but we just wanted to do a little
recap so so far what do you think the weather it's kind of hot and humid which we like
it's really different than where we've been the people so far that we've met all of the people
we've met have been extremely nice they've been helpful as far as like pointing us in a direction
helping us find restaurants those kind of things giving us tips on where to go or how to be safe
and not travel with our camera out and that kind of thing so yeah brazilians so far have been great
sao paulo is a huge city with lots of people but it seems very diverse the food is very good
they have lots of fresh fruits the meat is good and it's pretty cheap actually for what you get
so we love that we are always looking for cheap places to travel and so far brazil seems like one
of those we assume that it wouldn't be that cheap because we're in the biggest main city but if this
city shows us anything then the rest of brazil should be decently cheap which is great so i'd
say everything so far that we've experienced is positive the only downfall is the safety aspect
we don't really feel 100 safe so i guess we'll learn how to navigate that in the next few days
so this is the end of this video we're going to show you more of sao paulo tomorrow see you in the
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