Glad to be back to Brazil for the third time. After 16hrs total flight and layover time, just landed at Sao Paulo international airport. Immigration checkpoints are so smooth and fast. I then had to find the domestic transfer terminal, which is a bit unusual to me. I had to get out the airport to catch the shuttle to the other terminal. Finally, here I'm waiting to my flight to Rio De Janeiro where I'll be hiding for the next one week.
Landed safely at the SDU, which is named after the first Brazilian (Alberto Santos Dumont) who fly airplane. Then I tried to follow the advices given by my two friends. The first advice was ‘pay inside before you exit the terminal’ and the second one was ‘take the yellow cap’. I tried to accommodate both advices, and I paid at the taxi booth located inside before I left the terminal, and the lady gave me a receipts (one for me and one for the driver) and told me to take any taxi. However, when I exited I found out that I can not take yellow cap with the ticket that I have, instead a regular black SUV driver was telling me that the ticket is valid for him and offered me to jump in, but I refused to get in and the driver and I went back the terminal to confirm with the lady at the taxi booth. Finally, yes it was the a spacial taxi and it was ok to take, which I took it to my hotel. Since some of the roads were closed due to the ongoing Carnaval party, the driver had to take other route to my hotel, Cesar Park hotel located at Ipanema beach. After I settled at my hotel, I met my colleagues from Washington around 6:40pm and went out for dinner together. Finally, crashed to bed like a baby to catchup my missing sleeping time.
Landed safely at the SDU, which is named after the first Brazilian (Alberto Santos Dumont) who fly airplane. Then I tried to follow the advices given by my two friends. The first advice was ‘pay inside before you exit the terminal’ and the second one was ‘take the yellow cap’. I tried to accommodate both advices, and I paid at the taxi booth located inside before I left the terminal, and the lady gave me a receipts (one for me and one for the driver) and told me to take any taxi. However, when I exited I found out that I can not take yellow cap with the ticket that I have, instead a regular black SUV driver was telling me that the ticket is valid for him and offered me to jump in, but I refused to get in and the driver and I went back the terminal to confirm with the lady at the taxi booth. Finally, yes it was the a spacial taxi and it was ok to take, which I took it to my hotel. Since some of the roads were closed due to the ongoing Carnaval party, the driver had to take other route to my hotel, Cesar Park hotel located at Ipanema beach. After I settled at my hotel, I met my colleagues from Washington around 6:40pm and went out for dinner together. Finally, crashed to bed like a baby to catchup my missing sleeping time.
Ipanema beach taken from my hotel
This one of his many statue located at Brazilian Air Force base
Finally, I would like to say a few words about this Brazilian hero, Alberto Santos Dumont or simply known as Santos-Dumont. He is one of the very few people who contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. He dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. In his early career he designed, built, and flew hot air balloons, and won the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize on 19 October 1901 for his flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower. He then turned to heavier-than-air machines, and on 23 October 1906 his 14-bis made the first powered heavier-than-air flight in Europe and got certified by the Aéro Club de France and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Santos-Dumont, who was was member of a wealthy family of coffee producers, is a national hero in Brazil, where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers in demonstrating a practical airplane. Countless roads, plazas, schools, monuments, and airports in Brazil are dedicated to him, and his name is inscribed on the Tancredo Neves Pantheon of the Fatherland and Freedom. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1931 until his suicide in 1932.
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