Feb 5 - Sao Paulo City Tour

After overnight flight from Miami we finally arrived San Paulo (São Paulo), the tour company arranged breakfast at hotel for us. It was a buffet style breakfast with various food and fruits, particularly the papaya was the hit.

First attraction was the Oscar Niemeyer‘s building design exhibition. It is a group of buildings designed by him.  We also visited the South America Culture exhibitions in one of the buildings. 

Then we drove thru av Pauliao (financial street) and had lunch at Esfiha Chic with Brazilian buffer including a lot of South American steaks. 

We visited Museu Paulista in the afternoon. The exhibition in the museum is limited, however, they have a wonderful garden in front of it for wonderful Kodak moments. Leisurely walking and photographing thru the garden, we saw the Richo do Ipiranga Monumento and we took our 1^st group picture in front of the monument.
 

 

We end up at Ibirapuera Park for further leisure walks. In the Ibirapuera Park, there is a beautiful water fountain just like the one in front of Bellagio (except without music). 

 

We had dinner at Rafain Café which has Brazilian BBQ along with a varity of ice cream which was a hit. We stayed at Slaviero Suites for the night.  

Our group's (Group A) itinerary also calls for Bandeirantes Palace (Government Palace) and Municipal, however, we just drove by and viewed them from the bus due to security and safe issues in the area.