... the city gets bigger. And bigger. And it grows, wider and fatter, slowly but surely, to consume the Brazil around it. Being in SaoPaulo has been brilliant - because of the oasis and good friends. But the city itself is marginally ...
... football was introduced to the country by a European over a hundred years ago. Hollie however was more interested in Daslu, SaoPaulo's shopping emporium. Over three floors you can find every fashion designer you could wish for while servants dole out ...
... , and safe area, with a ultramodern indoor shopping centre hosting all the famous world wide chain stores.
In terms of SaoPaulo sightseeing, we visited the wide skyscraper lined Avenida Paulista, the Italian district of Bixiga, and the Asian district ...
... 'gio which marks the site where the city was founded in 1554 by the celebration of a mass of the Jesuit school.
We noticed SaoPaulo was a lot cooler than Puerto Iguazu. Brrr.
We then made our way to the Museum of Portuguese Language. You may think ...
... cheapest available. Along Avenida Paulista there are markets to check out and they sell many souvenirs. Visit Liberdade: the Japanese district of SaoPaulo. In fact, SaoPaulo contains the largest Japanese population in the world outside of ...
... talk about nothing but sex changes and porn, and a group of Japanese retirees who I´m sure were talking about something else.
SaoPaulo
Arriving by bus into SaoPaulo, you instantly get a different vibe to Rio. The wide avenues fringed with trees ...
... del Se visiting the Teatro Municipal and enormous neo-gothic Metropolitan cathedral. A short walk from here was the Liberdade area, home to SaoPaulo’s large Asian community. As it was Sunday the Liberdade area was bustling with people visiting the ...
... along with loads of beers at a café near the hotel. We then went to dinner with Ana to an Indian restaurant which had great food. SaoPaulo isn't really for travellers so we didn't see or do too much. The next morning we had to get the bus to Rio De ...
... nbsp;and other unpleasant remains of Saturday night decorating the footpaths in the streets around our hotel. We make a metro trip to Liberdade (home to the Asian community here) to visit the busy streetmarket. Before we leave again for the bus station ...
... trendy places to eat and go out. So eat and go out I did, leaving the touristy things, such as Avenida Paulista and Liberdade (the Japanese quarter, which I really liked) to the very last day :] Actually, I did have another semi-touristy day, when three ...