Brazil
100 Years of Okinawan
Immigration
August 18 - 28, 2008
$3,800 per person
(based
on double occupancy)
Tour price is based on current
tariffs as of November 2007 and are
subject to change without notice.
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Tour Includes:
• Tour Escort from Hawaii
• Hotel Accommodations as indicated
• Airfare from Honolulu to Brazil roundtrip
• Airfare from Sao Paulo to Iguazu rountrip
• Ground Transportation as needed
• Daily Breakfast and dinner and one lunch in South America
• Admission to all sights, attractions, and tours as indicated by
itinerary
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August 18 (Mon)
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Day One
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Honolulu/Dallas
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flight leaves from Honolulu in the late afternoon for Dallas. |
| August
19 (Tue) |
Day Two
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Dallas/Sao
Paulo
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we arrive in Dallas, we will head to a hotel for a half day to rest
before
catching our flight to Brazil in the evening. |
| August 20 (Wed) |
Day Three
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Sao Paulo |
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arrive in the morning in Sao Paulo, where we will pass through customs
and
immigrations. From there we will take a
driving tour of the city before checking into our hotel.
In the evening we will go to watch
the
parade for the Brazil Convention. For
those interested, it may be possible to march in the parade.
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August 21 (Thu)
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Day Four
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Sao Paulo |
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is the first day of the 100th centennial of Okinawan
immigration to
Brazil. Unfortunately the schedule of
events has yet to be confirmed so all activites during our stay are
subject to
change. On the first day, expect to be
attending events tied to the celebration. |
| August 22 (Fri) |
Day Five
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Sao Paulo |
We
will explore the Centro
portion of the city. This is the heart
of the city and is filled with cultural exhibits. We
will see examples of the architecture, such as the Edificio
Martinelli, the city’s first skyscraper built in 1929, the Mosteiros de Sao
Bento, a Byzantine church built from 1910 – 22 and houses a 6000
pipe organ,
and the Edificio Banespa, home
to the Banespa company and is modelled after the
Empire State Building. The Edificio
Banespa is also the second tallest building in Sao Paulo and offers
panoramic
views of the city.
We
will also visit a couple
of art musuems, the Museum of Sacred
Art, which has a collection of 4,000
wooden and terra cotta masks, and the State
Art Gallery, which has over 5,000
works of art including works by Rodin and Brazilian artists.
As noted
earlier, the schedule is subject to
change. |
August 23 (Sat)
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Day Six
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Sao Paulo |
In the morning we
plan to
explore the area near the hotel, known as Liberdade. This area is
noted for the Asian influence in it. This is reflected by the
presence of the
variety of asian restaurants and stores in the area. We will
visit the Museum of Japanese
Immigration, which tells the
tale of Japanese immigration to Brazil in 1908. Since it is the
weekend, we hope to see the Praca Liberdade,
which is noted for its weekend festivities that highlights not only
Japanese
culture, but its melding with the local culture.
We
will also return to
Centro to visit the Mercado Municipal,
which is a huge market with over 300
stands selling anything edible everything from meat, fruits,
vegetables, and
more. Opened in 1928, this is the
city’s first grocery market and was recently renovated in 2004. From here we will visit the Teatro
Municipal, which was based on the Paris Opera House. It remains an active performing house and we
will be able to tour
its halls.
As noted earlier,
the
schedule is subject to change. |
August 24 (Sun)
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Day Seven
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Sao Paulo |
We
will head to Parque
Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo’s version of New York’s Central Park. Constructed in 1954 to commemorate the
city’s 400th anniversary. It
is filled not only with open spaces, designed by Roberto Marx, but with
buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the architect of the United
Nations
building in New York. One of the
buildings that we will go to see is the Japanese Pavilion with its replica
of
the Imperial Palace in Katsura. It was
designed and built in Japan before being disassembled and transported
to Sao
Paulo. We will also visit the Oca, a
space age looking structure, that holds various art and cultural
exhibits.
The
other sight that we will
see is the Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo,
the premier fine art collection in the
city. It has a collection numbering
over 7000 pieces including works by masters from across the globe,
including Van
Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Picasso, and more.
As noted
earlier, the schedule is subject to
change.
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August 25 (Mon)
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Day Eight
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Sao Paulo |
| This
is the last day of the festival and we will attend the final events. If time allows we may do additional shopping
or sight seeing. |
August 26 (Tue)
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Day Nine
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Sao Paulo/Iguazu Falls
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our last day we leave Sao Paulo and head down to Iguazu Falls. This
stunning natural wonder is South
America’s Niagra Falls and is the world's second largest waterfalls and
twice the size of those at Niagra. It
spans the
borders of Brazil and Argentina and contains over 275 falls. We will visit Foz do Iguazu, a city that
grew when construction began Itaipu Dam, the world’s largest
hydro-electric
power in the world. We will cross over to Argentina to stay over
night. |
August 27 (Wed)
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Day Ten
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Iguazu/Sao Paulo/Dallas
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| In the
morning, we will tour the falls from the Argentina side. In the
afternoon we leave Iguazu for Sao Paulo to catch our flight back to the
US. Our flight leaves in the evening to
head
to Dallas. |
August 28 (Thu)
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Day
Eleven
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Dallas/Honolulu
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arrive in Dallas in the morning, where we will pass through customs and
immigrations. From there we will catch
our flight to Honolulu which should have us arriving in the afternoon. |
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