we've heard
so much about this country about the
food
about the people everyone said
it is a must visit place
there's so much history here and plenty
of modern day art
get ready for our biggest series yet
we're in the state of sao paulo and
we're so
excited to share this journey with you
the best part is it all
starts now this
is illabella
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how excited are we today we are in
brazil for the very first time and
before we get going we probably should
tell you guys
who we are i am trevor this is anna we
are the delightful travelers
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so a couple of days ago we arrived in
sao paulo and we immediately got on a
bus
and a ferry and came to this island
called illabella so if you guys have
been following along you probably know
we've been making our way
through south america and if you're a
long time follower you likely know
how much we love beaches we haven't had
nearly enough of that on this trip
so we're really excited to explore today
guys the other thing i can't help but
notice besides the beautiful beaches
there
there are these bike paths almost
everywhere we look and it's making me
think one thing
we should rent a bike maybe
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guys we can't get over this this is
absolutely beautiful and uh i think
it is the first time we've ever been on
a beach with
actual bike paths we're just talking
about this remember yeah like tulum you
can get bikes and stuff but it's just on
the road so yeah not that easy
no yeah this is fantastic yeah this is
awesome so there's a little town
on this uh beach as well and right now
we are going away from it and the
farther we go
uh the quieter it gets and we're
starting to see beaches that are almost
empty
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guys look at this we basically have it
to ourselves i don't see anybody else
i can't get over this we just left like
i don't know five minutes tops
from town and now we have this gorgeous
beach this is beautiful where's
everybody at
so in typical uh tropical weather
fashion it's now getting
kind of cloudy we we're losing our
beautiful this morning right now the
clouds are coming
from the mountains i don't want to
mention how many mountains are here i
don't think we did yeah they always seem
to be surrounded by clouds but it would
be nice if they would just stay there
and not come
over up hopefully it doesn't rain though
um if you guys are wondering where the
island is it's about uh four or five
hours
um from sao paulo and the drive actually
was pretty nice as well you go
through the so we'll show you some of
these mountains as we keep going we're
not letting
this cloudy weather stop us we got
places to go
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so we've seen a few of these like big
metal statues around town
but here in this area there's a ton of
them and i think they might tell the
story of jesus and the crucifixion
there's no
information in english so i'm guessing
that's what it looks like to me
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so
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this is definitely not what we expected
to find in a little beach town
these are some of the biggest statues
we've ever come across
and there are probably a dozen to two
dozen of these
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so we just kept going on the bike pass
and they eventually uh
ran out and we got to this gorgeous
beach
must be a marina because there are
yachts absolutely everywhere
there's also somewhere to eat some
places to have a drink and just chill on
the beach
as you can see this is very much worth
the long bike ride the hot bike ride i'm
boiling at the moment um but we ordered
a drink
uh i'm gonna say it wrong but it's the
very traditional brazilian drink called
like
cap guarana capriana something like that
i think it's a lot like a mojito without
the mint so it's got like
probably some sparkling water or some
club soda
sugar and rum i think and then they like
muddle all the limes
let's give it a yeah give it a try i
love the color of it it's really really
green
that's good but that is potent they put
a lot of rum in there whoa
whoa whoa that's very alcohol forward
you brazilians like it strong but you
know what it's refreshing so
that bike ride took a little while we
stopped so much this is going to go down
pretty easy
like anna said it does kind of remind me
of a mojito just like slightly
but it's like their own twist on it not
sure if i like a mojito or this better
so if you are planning on coming here
there's one very important thing you
need
to bring with you it is some bug spray
you if you're doing your research you're
probably going to read about it but they
have these little black flies here i
forget what they're called but they are
nasty they uh i haven't found them too
itchy yet but we've only been here a day
so it might get way worse but they leave
a little spot of blood when they bite
you it's
not very pleasant i think they have like
little teeth i think they do have teeth
these are our absolute favorite kind of
days we just woke up today didn't really
have have a plan at all
we saw that there were bike paths in the
town we decided to get on the bikes and
just
see where it would take us and then
right at the end we end up at this
beautiful beach
surrounded by mountains sun's coming out
again it's so
beautiful here in brazil
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uh wow talk about a first impression i
still cannot believe we are
pretty much the only people on this
beach it's crazy and it's beautiful
crazy what brazil has been treating us
great so far i can say this so basically
we know right now we're on an island and
it's very tropical and we just
absolutely love it but when we were
coming in here we knew we were flying
into sao paulo
the biggest city in south america and
one of the bigger cities
in the world so slightly intimidating
you know and then from there we were
going to get a bus to come here
and we were going to one of uh their bus
station i think is the biggest i i did
read that the bus station in sao paulo
is the biggest bus station in the entire
world i don't know if that's true or not
but it's
so big then um throw in you know a
different language which is fine we're
okay with that
um we've been around portuguese before
but it's been it's it's been a while
yeah and we were just very slowly
starting to get used to uh
our spanish and being around spanish so
it's been a it's been a ride but
talk about helpful people like you
brazilians are the nicest people ever at
the bus station so many people were
trying to help
us us two canadians um get to this
island and and they did
and without them i don't know if we
would have made it but i will say the
bus station was easy to get around
it was actually really well labeled uh
not too crowded yeah
we found everything pretty easily yeah
the opposite of some other bus stations
we've been to uh lately because we're
looking at east santiago
exactly yeah we'll link that video if
you guys want to see cause i think we
filmed that whole ride
that bus station was a little um a
little bit confusing yeah um so now that
we are here like just the food is great
the people are so nice and we have
a good amount of time here there's going
to be a lot more videos on brazil
um after the islands were going to be
going into sao paulo
and exploring the city can't wait to do
that as well but
so far first impressions oh first
impressions that people
the number one thing is that people are
ridiculously nice
yeah you guys are awesome yeah we're so
excited to explore more now speaking of
exploring more
tomorrow uh or in the next video i
should say we are going to be exploring
more of this island
yeah i think we're gonna take a boat
take a boat and visit some beaches i
think that's the plant so uh that should
be
very fun it's quite a big island i think
in the last video i forget what we were
doing we were in
uh buenos aires and visiting some
different neighborhoods there there you
go
so um make sure to go check that video
out as well we had a great time in
argentina
so very different than here it's just so
this whole journey so far this adventure
we've been going around south america
and it's been great but we might be the
most excited about being in brazil
very excited especially being we haven't
as i said before we haven't had nearly
enough beaches so like
super excited about that and i can't
wait to see more videos
next video great to be back at the beach
guys alright guys that's it from
illabella wishing you delightful travels
see you soon
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