Goiania
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Goiânia, the capital of Goiás, is a mid-sized city in central Brazil.
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Understand
One of several major planned cities, Goiânia was founded in 1933. The city plan is generally radial, with Avenida Goiás running north-south and intersecting Aveinida Universitária at the center. It was planned for about 50,000 inhabitants, but as of 2005 it holds over 1 million.
Get in
By bus
Goiânia has a very good bus station at Praça do Trabalhador, (worker's square), which connects it to any other place in Brazil. So, taking a bus to or from Goiânia will not be a big problem. If you visit Brasilia, which is 2-1/2 hours away by bus (R$25 - conventional bus [something like 8 US dollars]) it's even easier to visit. The bus station is on the northern side, about 1km from the central district.
Get around
See
During the day, there really isn't much to be seen in Goiânia... it's most like the urban center of a young region. There are a couple of parks you can visit, shoppings and commercial streets.
At the night scenery, you'll find many bars, pubs and night clubs filled with young people. Each of these is attended by very well defined social classes. At the Praça Universitária (universities square) you can find an environment less dedicated to any social class.
Do
Parks
- Bosque dos Buritis, west of the city center. The city's main public park, with a small art museum on the grounds.
- Parque Mutirama, northeast from the center at the end of Avenida Araguaia. Larger than Buritis, with walking trails and hilly terrain.
- Parque Vaca Brava, at the rich region of "Setor Bueno", this park is in front of Goiânia Shopping and offers a jogging track around a small lake. From 5PM to 8PM it's quite full of people making daily exercises.
Buy
There's a Feira Hippie (Hippie Fair) (open-air market) on weekends; Saturdays on Av. Goiás and Sundays by the bus station. At rua 3 and rua 4 you can find lots of used books, CDs or LPs stores (called Sebos). It's not as big as the São Paulo's sebos, but usually, it's possible to find quite rare peaces at a very good price.
The higher classes uses to buy thing at the Shoppings.
- Shopping Flamboyant
- The biggest and most famous shopping in Goiânia. It has commercial cinemas and a wide range of stores.
- Buriti Shopping
- Most popular shopping. It's located quite far from the old and new center.
Eat
Drink
Bars
- Cachaçaria Água Doce, Av, T-1. Offers all kind of cachaças (Brazilian drink made form sugar cane) with prices between R$2.50 and R$7.00.
- Cerrado, Av. T-4 perto do cruzamento com a Av. T-11. Regular and well attended bar of the mid and high social classes. It's beer is about R$3.00. It's definitely a good place for meeting people.
Night Clubs
- It's, Rua 136, perto da praça da Apollo. Cover charge: R$25.00 (for men) / R$15 (for women)... You can easily get a courtesy so you can consume the amount you paid for entering. This is a rich club, with expensive beer, pop electronic music. There are some nights with open bar, so you better check out all the week line-up and choose the best day.
- Café Cancun, Shopping Flamboyant, 3º piso. Cover charge: R$25.00 (for men) / R$15.00 (for women)... You can easily get a courtesy so you can consume the amount you paid for entering. Rich club, with expensive beer, pop electronic music.
- Pátio do Café Cancun, Praça Tamandaré. Cover charge: R$25.00 (for men) / R$15.00 (for women). Very different rhythms, beer about R$3.00. It's hard to get in after 12AM because it usually get very full.
Pubs
- Bolshoi, Av. T-2, in front of Cateretê. Average cover charge: R$5.00. Nice atmosphere, good pop music or at least good shows playing on the big screen.
Sleep
- Hotel Paissandu, Av. Goiás 1290. Basic and inexpensive, with a decent por kilo restaurant next door.
Get out
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