Itinerary | Buenos
Aires | Buenos Aires (2) | Montevideo | Punta
Del Este | Day at Sea | Itajai |
Santos | Paraty | Rio
de Janeiro
Santos is the port city to Sao Paolo. Today, Kim
had to leave the cruise to go to another cruise he was conducting,
so we spent the day with him, his parents, Will, and Dany exploring
Santos together.
We started the day with lunch on board at the Terrace Cafe.
The buffet selection was impressive, as usual. I ended up eating
healthy portions of sushi, tempura vegetables, a mango and
chicken salad, and finished with a mango soup. It was a little
before 2pm before we left the ship and entered the port building.
A little note for my fellow geeks: After leaving the ship,
we walked into the port facilities where I found computer stations
set up for accessing the Internet. You could buy time from
the gift/food store in the port building and then you would have
access to these computers that were running Ubuntu Linux, Firefox,
ICQ, and Yahoo messenger. These computers were similar to the
one I used in Punta Del Este, in that they ran a lot of open
source software. OpenOffice applications like Calc and the Word
Processor were actually renamed in the menu as Excel and Word.
Interesting.
Kim got two cabs for us, negotiated the fare,
and we were off to explore the city. While Kim took care of
some
business,
we wandered around the streets and looked at the buildings.
Dany explained some of the history of the city and warned us
(again) to keep an eye on our wallets and camera cases. In fact,
one of the locals signaled to us to pay attention to our stuff...he
pointed to his eyes and then to a camera case as he passed us
on the street. We took the warning seriously and stayed together,
watching each other's stuff and paying attention to our surroundings.
Below you see some pictures of the some buildings in the area.
I took the picture of the door on the right because I thought
it was really cool how the door and the doorway were curved.
The center pictures is where a lot of coffee deals took place...it
was like the NYSE, but for coffee deals. |
