City break in Sao Paulo. Active leisure ideas for Sao Paulo - attractions, recreation and nightlife

Sao Paulo is a perfect destination for nightlife enthusiasts. A good place for a family visit is the Instituto Butantan zoological park which main inhabitants are reptiles and insects. All the animals live in their natural environment that is why observing the inhabitants is of great interest. Another place to visit and to learn local fauna is the Sao Paulo Zoo park featuring a greater collection of animals. Tourists will meet fantastic bright parrots and giant elephants, leopards and giraffes, various monkeys and slow hippopotamuses as well as the rarest species of birds among the inhabitants of the zoological park.

The city invites its foreign guests to visit a local aquarium. A visit to this oasis of underwater world will turn to an exciting adventure. A tour though numerous aquariums is accompanied with an interesting lecture on the presented species. Open air leisure enthusiasts will surely love local parks and gardens. A visit to the Jardim Botanico garden will as well turn to an amazing experience as the park always features cozy and serene atmosphere. The Parque do Ibirapuera will be a perfect place for serene hiking. The park is located not far from the center of the city.

The best place for spending time with kids is the Parque Trianon which is equipped with perfect playing and sport grounds. Active leisure enthusiasts as well as attractions fans are recommended to pay a visit to the Hopi Hari theme park being a perfect place to spend a whole day full of impressions and emotions trying original and exciting attractions and rides. Spa admirers will hardly find a better place for rest and recreation than the Sauna Masculina day spa center offering a wide choice of health improving services and treatments. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

Its visitors may enjoy various types of massages and beauty treatments. The center features a perfect swimming pool and a well equipped lounge area. Considering nightlife establishments of the destination tourists will be impressed with a variety of night clubs and dance floor. The Azucar club will be of great interest for Latin-American dance and music culture admirers being open for guests 24/7.

The Blen Blen Brasil night club offers a rich music playlist. On the first floor of the night entertainment establishment visitors will find a cozy bar meanwhile on the second floor they can enjoy dancing all night long. Rock and jazz fans will better like the Bourbon Street Music club attracting hundreds of music fans to enjoy favorite tracks every evening. The Lust club features one the largest dance floors of the city. The club is specializing in techno music.

Sao Paulo has plenty of opportunities for an active pastime: tourists will be able to try eco-tours in the picturesque vicinity of the city, including climbing the mountains as part of an excursion. A golf game is worth more than a walk in the park – in fact, the best golf clubs of the city are located on a territory with the most picturesque spaces. Among them, it is worth highlighting such centers as Embrace and Guarapiranga. Many travelers book horse-tours around the beautiful in their picturesqueness places of São Paulo, and you can follow their example because you will be sure to get great impressions. This kind of tours is offered by the companies Recanto dos Cavaleiros and Kino’s Tour. A horse riding training is necessarily conducted before the horse tours.

For those who wish to spend their time most actively and extremely, it is appropriate to make mention of the club with an air tube, which is called iFLY São Paulo. For bowling fans, the entertainment club Villa Bowling Shopping West Plaza will be a great place to visit, while for those who prefer billiards, the Bahrem Pompéia Snooker complex is advisable. The Roller Jam club is in demand among those who want to go rollerblading, but for gamers who are crazy about virtual reality, it will be interesting to visit the Pixel Realidade Virtual Arcade VR club. It is worth mentioning that the center is incredibly popular among locals – and last but not the least due to its magnificent design. Another great place to visit is Clube Power Airsoft, where those who want to develop their accuracy in shooting from a pneumatic weapon are sent to.

The financial capital of Brazil can boast of having a beautiful oceanarium called Sao Paulo Aquarium, which amazes everyone with the diversity of its marine inhabitants (most of all fish are represented here, but you can also look at polar bears, fur seals, crustaceans). The oceanarium is of particular interest at night, when exciting night tours are held here; at this time everything is perceived differently. In addition to the two above-mentioned zoos, you can find a zoo in the city that offers safari tours – the Zoo Safari. You should certainly come here with the kids. A great addition to the vacation will be a visit to the park at Lake Parque da Aclimação, one of the best places for those who want to enjoy relaxing and bird watching, for which the green zone is also quite popular.

Those who wish to engage in sports should be advised to go to Centro Esportivo, Recreativo e Educativo do Trabalhador, where tennis courts, jogging paths, and swimming pools suited for every taste are located. It is worth mentioning too that this is one of the favorite destinations for locals who want to have a picnic. Those who wish to climb up the mountains, but want to first get the basics of climbing in comfortable conditions, go to the climbing gyms of Casa de Pedra and Gravidade Park. Regardless of the tourists’ choice of place to stay, they will certainly get wonderful impressions. However, the same can be said about Kartódromo Ayrton Senna autotrack, an excellent club for karting lovers.

You can enjoy the races of graceful horses in the equestrian Jockey Club. Gamblers will get satisfaction here also by betting on their favorite horse. The club Parque da Mônica is recommended to visit with children. Here there is an excellent playground and several attractions equipped for them. Animators’ shows are also held here with participation of children’s favorite heroes. Equally interesting is the KidZania center, where the young visitors will gladly try themselves in the role of teachers, firefighters, judges, police officers, and realize that being an adult is not so easy. Children, as well as adults, will like the thematic Impulso Park – here you can jump to your satisfaction on a variety of trampolines.

The Eataly Sao Paulo food court is very popular among locals – it seems as though they are ready to spend all their time here enjoying Italian cuisine, which is in great demand. Also, wonderful cooking master-classes for this kind of cuisine are held here, and they can equally be visited by tourists. Escape-quest clubs are also in great demand. Among them, Escape 60 is considered the best one. It is located in several districts of the city and offers a variety of topics and scenarios with non-trivial plots and beautiful decoration. So, you can enjoy here mystical, sports, as well as detective and gangster themes. The Escape Junior escape-quest center is considered a unique one – here, as the name implies, children also can be participants, as there are puzzles designed for them too.

In the financial center of Brazil, you can find a lot of interesting clubs and bars, which also offer you the opportunity of being engaged in a typical pastime in them, as well as to enjoy live music. Among them is the Clube do Minhoca and the Espaço das Américas, as well as the Ao Vivo Music Club. Those who want to have a good laugh desire to visit the Comedians Comedy Club, while film fans prefer to go to the best cinema in São Paulo – Cinepolis JK Iguatemi Cinema. As for the bars that can offer their guests magnificent views from the window, it is worth noting the famous Terraço Itália restaurant, located on the 41st floor of the Edificio Itália skyscraper, which overlooks the southern part of the city. Climbing further to the 42nd floor, you can find the Bar do Terraço with views to the north side of Sao Paulo, and where live music is playing constantly.

Everyone is aware of the Brazilians’ love for football, so you should not be surprised that there are several monumental arenas on the territory of São Paulo. For this reason, you definitely should not bypass the city’s stadiums during large-scale sports competitions. The most popular games of the season take place in the famous Arena Corinthians. The Allianz Parque stadium is also considered a prominent one. Interesting games take place on the Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo arena, and large-scale musical events are held in the Auditório Ibirapuera complex as well as at the Autódromo José Carlos Pac.