Juliana & John
Places to visit/Lugares para visitar
Jumirim
Jumirim is a small town (~3000 habitants). Surrounded by the rivers Tietê and Sorocaba, Jumirim receives many people interested in fishing and eco-tourism.
Restaurante Juma
Brazilian churrasco!
Piracicaba
Piracicaba is home to the oldest agricultural university in Brazil, the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), where Juliana attended college. Founded in 1901, the school is located on a farm with a large collection of trees and plants. You can walk through the campus and have a picnic on its lawns. The city is famous for its traditional cachaça production and traditional music. At "Rua do Porto", you can enjoy good restaurants by the Piracicaba river. You can also visit "Engenho", which used to be a sugarcane mill and currently is used for events.
São Paulo
Largest city in Brazil, São Paulo is home to monuments, parks and museums such as the Latin American Memorial, the Ibirapuera Park, Museum of Ipiranga, São Paulo Museum of Art, and the Museum of the Portuguese Language. São Paulo is a cosmopolitan, melting pot city, home to Middle Eastern, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, and Portuguese people and also from other Brazilian States. Located ~ 2 hours by car from Jumirim.
Santos
Urban beach in Sao Paulo State. The city is also home to the Coffee Museum, where world coffee prices were once negotiated. There is also a football memorial, dedicated to the city's greatest players, which includes Pelé, who spent the majority of his career with Santos Futebol Clube. Its beachfront garden, 5,335 m (5,834 yd) in length, figures in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest beachfront garden in the world. It's located ~ 3 hours by car from Jumirim.