Anyway, the last couple of days we have spent exploring more of the city, and trying to see some of the events for the 'Virada Cultural' festival that is on in Sao Paulo this weekend. It's basically a festival of Brazilian culture staged at multiple venues around the center of the city.We decided to catch the subway down to the city center on Saturday morning, not that it is particularly far away but we wanted to figure out how the subway worked. We walked to our local station - about 5 minutes away - then descended the escalator and bought a ticket from a guy in a booth for R2.55 (roughly C$1.75). There's only one type of ticket you can buy - one trip, one way to anywhere on the system - so confusion is minimal.
We entered the main part of the station - large, clean and not very crowded - and found a map which told us exactly where we needed to go and what stations we needed to change trains at to get to Republica station. Within a minute a train arrived and we were on our way. Seriously, the subway system here is impressive - right up there with the subway system in Tokyo, which blew my mind at the time.
After arriving down town and getting through some crazy crowds of people, we spent most of the day wandering around looking at empty venues. It seems that this year's event was a bit of a disappointment and not nearly as good as last year! So, sadly the photos here are not particularly exciting.
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