Few days in Sao Paulo

After Iguazu falls we had a few days to spend in São Paulo before flying to Chile. We had met João at the Christmas dinner in Penedo and he lives in São Paulo. He was kind enough to invite us to stay with him for the two nights we were in SP. How great is that!?

Many people had said that there is not much to do or see in SP and asked why we were going there. Well, we had thought we would go somewhere else before flying out but we wouldn’t really had time to travel somewhere else and then travel to SP so we headed there 😜

A happy hydrant greeting us in SP

We stayed quite central, in the area of Vila Mariana in a peaceful residential area. We got a tip to go to see the Japanese area in SP. We hadn’t even heard of it before and were interested to see what it was about. We took the subway to Liberdade and immediately when we came out we saw a market with different things. There were stands selling Japanese and Asian products and then there was a food court with a LOT of people queuing to different dumpling stands. Too bad we had just had food, so we only enjoyed a sugarcane-coconut-lime lemonade. It was delicious 😋 Then we just walked around, Edda bought a few inexpensive pieces of clothes from the street sellers (shorts, pants and a jumpsuit for about 12 € total).

The street where we lived in SP 

Asian street market in SP

Street artist

Different traffic lights 😛

Street views

On our second day in SP we went to see the Cultural centrum but it was a construction area… Then we walked on Avenida Paulista and walked pass the Museum of modern art. We saw posters outside of the exhibitions and they didn’t seem that interesting so we didn’t go in. João said we should try the ‘pastel’s’, which are filled pastry fried quickly in oil. Well, not very healthy, but nice to taste! We just walked on Paulista and looked around. There wasn’t really much to see. We walked through a few shopping centrums but other than that there was nothing to do. 😕 We started to understand why people say there is not much to do in SP.

Many pastels to choose from

Healthy food... 😀

Avenida Paulista