FIRST TIME IN SAO PAULO! BRAZIL'S MEGA CITY
good morning everyone today is the beginning of our series of videos from here in brazil and we're starting off in the mega city of sao paulo so sao paulo is the most populated city in the americas so the whole western hemisphere and the southern hemisphere so yeah just a really huge city and even though me and carol lived in brazil we've never visited sao paulo before we lived in rio so yeah we haven't seen this place at all and yeah we're just excited to see what it has to offer carol found a really awesome modern apartment for 34 and as you'd expect from a super populated city you got huge apartment blocks everywhere all the sides here are apartment blocks they're even making more one here one down there so yeah i think you're going to be seeing a lot of tall buildings in this video and this place also comes with a swimming pool down there but it's winter now it's like 12 degrees celsius so nobody's using that this is pretty interesting look at this we got a london telephone box but it's actually a fridge more uk boxes here this person really loves the uk and here's how the police looks on the inside so yeah everything is super modern looking what's with all the uk stuff you even got a uk cushion there yeah there are some mugs from london as well i don't know i think the owner used to living in london so that's why she she decorated like this but i choose it because of you really no i'm just kidding and it's a really good deal right for 34 yeah yeah i think it's a great price and it also has the gym and also full but we're not going to be using them because we don't have much time this is my favorite part here the the chimps yeah then we just got a small kitchen but also very modern looking and the bathroom also very modern so yeah the place does look brand new and we got a lot of places to visit i think today yeah we have a big list and we hope we can go to all the places but first we'll start going to villa madalena and we'll have breakfast there too and then we'll go to the other places yeah then we'll take it from there so we just arrived in villa madalena by the uber and the place we come in to eat breakfast before you look around it's 24 hours always open i guess before we continue i'd like to talk quickly about the sponsor of this video so sir shark are a vpn provider that allows us to keep a private connection anywhere in the world keeping our data and information safe from potential hackers it also allows us to bypass censorship in some countries some websites or content are blocked so by using surfshot we're able to unblock them another big benefit to us is that it gives us access to all 15 of netflix's libraries for example carol really likes to watch the series friends over and over and netflix recently removed it from a lot of the countries but it's still available in the uk so by connecting her laptop to the uk server on surfshark she's able to access all the friends series still other than that surfshark also allows unlimited 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like a place where you buy bread yeah it's a bakery and yeah we have many different kinds of breads and variations for breakfast so this neighborhood villa madeleine it's known to have like an alternative vibe a bit of a bohemian neighborhood so you have loads of trendy cafes art galleries also places with street murals and we're gonna check out a place now that's really famous here that has loads of street murals right now since it's early it's a bit of a ghost neighborhood i mean everything's just opening now so yeah pretty much everything's closed nobody really walking around so we've just come into this alleyway here and this spot is called and this alleyway is famous because it has these awesome street murals everywhere so it's one of the big attractions here in sao paulo goes all the way down so we're gonna check it out so even outside of the alleyway there there's still artwork everywhere so all around this neighborhood look covered in the street murals ah so here's batman or is that batwoman yeah that woman and batman and i don't know the dog hey carol it's funny because we were just in bogota and that place also had street art everywhere there was a part of bogota that was kind of similar with the awesome street art and that's something that we usually like to to see it's very interesting yeah it's better than just a normal building so our next stop of the day is a park called [ __ ] ibirapuera and we're going to go around the park in one of these things there i think it's 14 hayes per hour but look at the amount of bikes they have here i guess on weekends there must be a crazy amount of people this park it's very busy on the weekends that's why there are so many bikes to rent there's like over a thousand bikes look at all those never seen so many bicycles before all right off we go on the wheel yeah so only carol can control it mine's just a handle which you can what oh yeah i can pedal can pedal and the brakes down here we have no idea what's in this park i think it's a big park isn't it yeah from the pictures yeah yeah it's like a gigantic park it's hard for you to pronounce this yeah it's an indigenous name it's not portuguese man more bikes crazy so inside the park you get some museums i think there's a few museums around here we're not going to go to any cause we're going to go to a bigger museum later on in the center of the city so here in sao paulo it's quite strict with the mess even out here doing exercise outdoor nobody really around you're expected to wear it all the time literally 100 of the people wearing it you you don't see anyone at all really without a mask on so we just stopped quickly next to this little lake in the park get some nice views here because you can see the city big buildings the backdrop but here's nice and calm super different uh rio yeah sao paulo yeah it's a different city here it's more like modern and even though rio has like a a part where there are big buildings it's not like here here it's way more like modern and it's a very small part there yeah yeah and here the nature it looks more like forest i guess whereas in rio it's more tropical jungle looking yeah so super different high five so so that was funny we we turn around and some dude and his kids are leaving in our tricycle they weren't stealing it or anything i think they just thought it was their left on its own but yeah they were about to leave on our tricycle we'd like to walk all the way back brazilians love their exercise don't they yeah of course we do yeah loads of people jogging here you're gonna see that in rio at the beaches everybody doing exercise so our third stop of the day is a neighborhood called liberdachi and this is home to the biggest japanese community outside of japan so here in sao paulo and apparently there's around like 1.5 million japanese people all living in sao paulo so it's known as the japan town even the brazilian bank look like a japanese architecture style you got the street lamps as well japanese style seems to be some sort of magic show going on over here right now it's funny seeing a place like this in brazil right yeah even for me like i've never seen anything like this like uh little asia in south america yeah yeah look at this road here with the lamps all the way down so all the stores are written in japanese also every every single store is pretty much written in japanese mizomoto i think there's loads of like restaurants that you can eat at a japanese restaurants loads of souvenir shops with like japanese souvenirs like this one here see the lanterns there even got the clothes as well we're in japan got the fair too almost everywhere in brazil has ferrous you see them all the time and that is the crazy sao paulo traffic man i don't think i don't think we've seen this many cars in forever i don't know in a long time i don't know i don't know it was my father i think this is literally the most traffic i've ever seen anywhere so you're probably wondering why are there so many japanese in brazil so they first immigrated here in 1908 like the first batch of people it's because after slavery ended in the mid-1800s there was a big labor shortage in the coffee plantations which were around here so brazil needed labor and then other countries like italy were sending immigrants here because they were also going through like a financial crisis there so many italian immigrants first came here but then they were pretty much treated like slaves there and then when the italian government found out they stopped sending the italians here they weren't allowing them to come here anymore but japan was also going through a crisis in the rural areas so japan had an agreement and they sent all these japanese to work in the plantations here and once again they were treated pretty much like slaves but it didn't take long for them to buy their own land and then yeah work their own land and now they're completely integrated with brazil they are brazilians japanese brazilians so here in brazil when you see japanese people you you don't think the foreigners you know they're brazilian usually yeah it's like something normal like you said there or already integrated to our culture and it's just normal for us we already know that so there are so many of them here and yeah they're just brazilian just normal resilience so it couldn't be japan town without the hello kitty you can eat here but we're gonna go to another place you're gonna see why not to eat to get a coffee yeah you'll see why soon so the place we're going is called coffee selfie because you can take a selfie and it will be on your coffee so carol is just choosing our selfie for the coffee and we just gotta send it to them so here it is the selfie cappuccino carol's missing a bit of her chin but it's actually quite detailed maybe we had to send the picture more zoomed out right yes but it looks nice yeah it's a cool idea so you have to pay five ais extra for the selfie and i just got a herbal tea here was 10.90 and that's just the extra five and then they're able to use 8.50 so 24 40 the nice cakes and sweets here check those things out the donuts loads of different cakes they got some ice cream in there though all right the time has come to destroy us there goes the five hands so about a 10-minute walk from the japan town is this cathedral here which is also a really famous site it's called cathedral this area is pretty sketchy because basically all the homeless homeless people in sao paulo have moved here so yeah these are all the tents all the way around gotta be quick here but a very impressive cathedral apparently this is one of the fifth biggest neo-gothical cathedrals in the world and construction started in 1914 so i'll have to whisper inside it's very quiet here yeah but this cathedral is absolutely gigantic especially the ceiling super high ceiling get these enormous pillars all around look the size of these pillars so so far we've been getting around by uber because it's more convenient quicker but now we're gonna get on the metro see how the sao paulo metro system is so a one-way ticket per person is 440. that's what we're gonna get so me and carol are lost already and this is why that's all the metro lines so we're here right now and we need to get the paradiso are we gonna switch switch uh metro over there line two so we need to go to line two right now yeah i think this one this one that says one though yeah but we'll switch on oh we'll switch to two yeah only when we get to paradise okay hopefully carol knows what she's talking about okay brought up so we're now on the famous avenida paulista so this is where all the big brazilian companies the international companies are goes all the way down there three kilometers absolutely gigantic street of just huge buildings businesses everywhere this street is crazy yeah there's a lot going on here but i think on sundays i'm not sure if it's the weekend or just sunday it becomes a walking street so no cars only people walking yeah so i don't know it's like eight lanes so it becomes an eight lane walking street for three kilometers so i think you have like food trucks and just people selling stuff yeah i wish we were here on a weekend but we will be here yeah today is a wednesday so sao paulo the city has the highest gdp in uh in latin america and the southern hemisphere so yeah sao paulo is a super rich city so we just came into some huge mall here um yeah we came in here to find a food court didn't seem to really be any restaurants on that main road not in walking distance anyway you have to walk a lot so i ended up getting some japanese food i think japan town made me crave some japanese food how do you pronounce that phrase can die yeah so it's pretty interesting different not like a normal sushi roll so i got like a cone here they call it tamaki so this one has salmon cream cheese ginger some seeds and then this one's pretty much the same just fried the algae is fried and it also has some teriyaki sauce and that was all 39 ray is 50. and carol went for the more brazilian kind of food yeah i missed this food yeah what is it rice beans yeah which is a brazilian thing and fish and the salad mashed potato yeah farofa and all this with the coke was 45 hey ice qualifiers there you go so we're now heading to the sao paulo museum of art and it's 45 reyes per person we had to book it online i think that's because of kovid so yeah yesterday we just booked it and this is the art museum right here the first section that we've come to is mainly sculptures so this is by a brazilian artist i think they have things from international artists here as well got some very unusual looking sculptures here this one that's what oh yeah it's a dorian what the hell they're all dorians right are they real no dorian arch so this is the main part of the art museum so apparently there's over 200 works about here so a lot to see already looks awesome look at all this yeah i like how they did the layout where it's not on walls it's all on these uh pieces of glass that are upright and yeah you even have some other things like like this check that out and it's a weird big bent nail man check out these paintings so looks very haunted super creepy this one's even more creepy it's like i don't know almost like skeleton looking yeah so these two are the from the same artist it's because the guy is called country du cortinari he's a very famous artist in brazil and this one is the most famous one it's called hechiranchis the painting is about like the people from the northeast area of brazil and they were in this this poverty situation so he was trying to bring this issue to like not just the art community but also the politics community and just wanted to bring this problem so we're walking avenida paulista once again going on about a 20-minute walk because there's a building with a viewpoint here that i think is for free to visit so yeah we're gonna check that place out and i didn't mention before from what i read close to a million people walk these streets every day just this street actually only avenida palestine almost a million people walk yeah crazy so we've actually come back to our apartment now because the rooftop place with the view was closed because of covid and we asked the guy there if there was any other rooftops around but he said that they're all closed because of kovitz and tomorrow we're going to be heading to rio where mino and carol's family live that we was only here for one day because it was a layover really that's the only reason we came here but we like what we saw and yeah we could spend many more days there there must be way more stuff to see since the place is so gigantic so there's going to be a lot of videos coming from rio de janeiro and we're probably going to visit some other states as well i think we're going to be here in brazil for like two to three months minimum so yeah we got quite a long 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