Rio is a city of celebration nestled between mountains and sea. Five days and four nights, between the Christ statue and the samba statue, you encounter a city of passion that runs to the bone.
Christ stands with open arms atop the mountain, overlooking the entire Guanabara Bay. At dusk, the city is covered in golden red beneath your feet, offering Rio's most classic kissing viewpoint.
Taking the cable car up to Bread Hill, the cable car passes between the two peaks, with bays and forests swirling beneath your feet. Rio's "mountain and water city" layout is rare worldwide.
Copacabana and Ipanema Beach are the city's living rooms, with football, volleyball, and bikinis playing day and night. Brazilians' bodies belong to the beach.
Catch the samba party (or rehearsal), with floats and dancers lighting up the streets. Even outside of season, the drumbeats on the street can always pull you into the dance troupe.
The warmth of Rio is that happiness is treated as a duty. When you're dragged by strangers to dance and laugh so hard you forget to speak, you'll understand: some cities are born to keep you young.
Route fragment
5 days and 4 nights
- Day 1: Christ statue
- Day 2 Bread Mountain
- Day 3 Copacabana
- Day 4 Samba, Ipanema
- Day 5: Return trip