SANTOS, BRAZIL
Early this morning we sailed into Santos. The sky line is covered with highrises fronted by beautiful sandy beaches. We continued towards the port area, enormous rows of cranes for unloading goods and containers. This port supplies the City of Sao Paulo about 2hr drive inland. We finally docked at the passengers terminal. As with most city’s in ports, there is usully a shuttle bus from the ship to the terminal gate. From there you can take a tour bus or taxi. Often, the visiting city will supply a shuttle bus to a central location in the city. Today the city supplied a shuttle to a large shopping mall. The temperature had shot up to 32C deg with a nearly 100% humidity. Not very pleasant to sit around. We decided to take the shuttle to the mall. After roaming through the mall for 3hrs, we originaly had plans to walk to the beach. Soon as we got outside the mall and were exposed to the heat, we changed our mind and decided to take the shuttle back to the ship. We took a nap in a nice aircondioned room and had some pool time afterwards on the ship . In the evening we had a nice dinner on the outside deck. We set sail around 11PM. We were not totally impressed with Santos. It is a very old City, and it looked like the old buildings were in a state of disrepair. It is also very much a buzzling port city. The best thing it has going for it are the beautiful beaches. Another sidenote is that Santos was the hometown of the famous soccer player “Pele”
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