4-Day Rio de Janeiro Experience

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After breakfast, you'll meet your private guide at the hotel lobby and visit the Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain). You'll travel up Sugarloaf Mountain in a cable car and you'll make a brief stop at a vantage point at 700 feet above sea level to capture unparalleled panoramic views of the city, Guanabara Bay, the Rio-Niterói Bridge and the Corcovado. Later, you'll visit the Corcovado, one of Brazil’s most well-know postcards where Christ the Redeemer looks over the city.

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Today, you'll head out to hike in Tijuca National Park to hike the Tijuca Peak, Rio's highest at 3,300 feet, and then you'll visit Santa Teresa district. Tijuca is known as the largest urban forest on earth, its huge mountains covered with tropical vegetation contrast with dramatic granite rocks, forming the unique background for Rio. Before returning to the hotel, you'll do a quick stop at the bohemian neighbourhood of Lapa to enjoy a typical Roda de Samba, an informal gathering of musicians.