Day 2: Rio de Janeiro
Breakfast in the hotel. A guide is waiting for you in the hotel lobby. Half day (4h) excursion to the Sugar Loaf (Pao de Azucar Mountain). You are going to Praia Vermelha (Red Beach), from where you will take the cable car up the mountain. The first stop will be on Mount Urca, which has a wide observation deck where you can have a bite to eat in a restaurant or bar. On the Sugar Loaf itself there is a smaller platform, but it offers a beautiful view of Rio, Copacabana beach, the bay, the surrounding mountains, islands in the ocean, the Niteroi bridge, the statue of Christ. Then by car you will go to the central districts of old Rio, where you will admire several ancient churches, monasteries, the main Cathedral of the city, as well as buildings built in the colonial style.