Sugar Loaf city tour and cable car from Rio (616350)

What you can expect

Rio de Janeiro is a giant metropolis with many beautiful natural sites to see and hike. But it can also be overwhelming, busy and crowded. This tour offers to take you to some of the most famous sights in Rio de Janeiro in a few hours. No fuss, no muss, everything is taken care of, from pick-up at your hotel in the morning to the rides up and down the surrounding mountain.

On this tour you will

• do a panoramic tour of downtown Rio passing by the Sambadrome
• stop at the Metropolitan Cathedral which was built in a pyramidal form with an internal diameter of 96m (314ft) and a height of 80m (262ft)
• familiarize yourself with traditional Cinelândia Square with its historical buildings
• see the Municipal Theater, the National Library and the National Museum of Fine Arts
• be taken to the neighborhood of Urca via the Aterro do Flamengo, where one of the largest symbols of the city is located: Sugar Loaf
• travel to Urca Hill by cable car, a vantage point 215m (700ft) high with beautiful views of Guanabara Bay and its islands
• see the Rio-Niterói Bridge and Corcovado Mountain from up high
• take a second cable car up to the top, at 395m (1300ft) and enjoy splendid views of Copacabana beach, the Santa Cruz fortress and several beaches of Niterói