Do’s:

• Try the magnificent Brazilian cuisine which is actually a treat!
• Ask any known/friendly person or hotel employees before venturing in some place about which there is not much info on the internet.
• Check if there is any disease outbreak as the city is in a tropical country, and the diseases can be lethal to the outsiders.
• Use the subway if you want to get fast across the city.
• Be polite with people around you, maintain eye contact and shake hands in social events, as it is the custom in here.
• Last but not least, watch a live match in one of the big four clubs’ stadium to feel the football vibe and craze that runs in this city.

Don’ts:

• Walk in the sketchy neighbourhoods or go by foot without any guide.
• Walk around with valuables, as this may attract miscreants.
• Wander into favelas as this might be dangerous and illegal.
• Leave your bag on the floor, so that someone may pick it up and run away, or tropical crawling insects can get into the bag.
• Rely on weather forecasts because, in a tropical country, forecast holds little value often.

São Paulo is a highly crowded metropolis with social and extrovert people who love to party wild. The nightlife scene is considered to be one of the most vibrant and diverse on the continent fitting for all types of budget. The top-ranking ‘baladas’ or clubs in uptown are a bit expensive, they provide champagne and premium spirits to the customers. The Jardins, Vila Olímpia locality houses these clubs, which are equipped with national and international DJs and techno music. The villa Madalena area clubs are more bohemian in theme with crowded botecos or local bars, and small live music venues that specialise in Samba tunes and unique decor. Downtown or Centro region has a bunch of live music venue and few nightclubs which organise pop-up parties and roaming party nights. One of the unique nightclubs is Panam club, with its location on the twenty-second floor of the building along with a great view of the city and an airport ambience with speakers that reproduce the noise of aeroplane turbines. It also has a helipad that is used as a smoking zone.

• Visit the football stadiums and experience a nail-biting city derby between the power-house football clubs of the city.
• Go and see the Sao Paulo Cathedral, a huge neo-Byzantine structure with beautiful mosaic and stained-glass interior.
• Watch the sunset at Sunset Square over Vila Madalena, one of the city's most bohemian neighbourhood across the metropolis.
• Spend an hour in Butantã Snake Institute, a snake farm with a huge collection of venomous varieties.
• Go and see La Madone de São Paulo, a giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo.

• Visit and take photos in Beco do Batman or Batman Avenue, São Paulo's haven for graffiti artists in an urban alley, where a single Batman graffiti started the trend. If you are skilled enough, you can leave your mark here too.
• Join an authentic Brazilian cooking class along with a municipal market tour to pick up fresh ingredients.
• If you are interested in biodiversity and animal behaviour, you may opt for the guided night-time visit in São Paulo Zoo to see the nocturnal animals like bats, owls and possums in action.
• Book a helicopter and go for a ride to see the city from a bird's- eye view if the weather condition permits.

-The classic Brazilian National team jersey and other football memorabilia from the Football Museum.

-The Brazilian Wine, a lesser known, but one of the best in Southern Hemisphere, from the specialist stores and bars.

-Bikinis and other swim-wears.

-Havaianas: The world-famous brand of Flip-flops.

-Cachaça; Brazil’s national spirit made from fermented sugarcane juice.