After Breakfast, Day at leisure for discovering this beautiful city including the wonderful beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
Optional Program 1: Carnival Experience(Shared service-Group Tour- Not available on Sunday-Duration: 3 hours)-$109 per person
Life is a carnival and even more so if we are in Rio de Janeiro! This experience will allow us to discover all the effort, training, hard work and production behind the iconic and massive Rio Carnival, an event that attracts visitors from all over the world year after year. We will tour the City of Samba, the warehouses where the most recognized samba schools build and store floats and colorful dance costumes. We will also visit the Rio Grande Samba School Factory to delve even further in to the world of samba. On the tour we will see different processes of the schools at the level of production of floats, clothing and all the people involved in making the parade a reality(musicians, choreographers dancers, artisans, producers, designers). In the exhibition hall we will learn about the history of this dance and the historical schools. To live the complete experience, we can try on original costumes and take pictures with them, we can also participate in a samba class to learn the basic steps of a professional dancer. To close the visit, we will taste a typical Brazilian cocktail.
Optional Program 2: Tijuca forest and Botanial Garden(Shared service-Duration: 4hours-Afternoon only-Not available on Thursday and Sunday)-$89 per person
A half-day tour for nature lovers! in the purest style of a safari, aboard an open-top truck and with the help of our guide, we will discover the exuberance and diversity of Brazilian flora. Within its 137 hectares, the Botanical Garden houses more than 6,000 species of plants, including a wide variety of bromeliads and orchids. It has a sensory garden and an avenue of bicentennial palm trees. Among the most striking tree species we will find the Brazilwood (tree that gives its name to the country). We will also visit the turtle lake and the giant water lily lake. Another point in the city that we will visit Visat Chinesa viewpoint(388 m), one if the few places from where you can see Christ the redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, Ipanema and Leblon. The adventure continues in the Tijuca National Forest, the largest urban forest in the word. Here we will follow a low intensity trail and reach the Taunay waterfall. While we walkm our guide will tell us everything about the Atlantic forest and its biodiversity. We will also take a panorami walk along the famous San Conrado beach, with its sky crossed by paragliders and hang gliders, popular activities in the city.
Optional Program 3: Crazy for football: Tour Maracana and Flamingo (Shared Service- Duration:6 hours-Not available on Monday)-$129 per person
A half-day tour designed especially for soccer lovers! We will arrive at the Legendary Maracana stadium where we can see the locker rooms , the warm-up room and the press room. We can also enter the main locations of the stadium, such as the stands, the substitutes' bench and even the field. on our tour we will also be able to see the collection of objects related to matches, historical milestones and emblematic players who passed through the most important team in Brazil. We will take the Gavea Tour to see the basketball gym, the football stadium, the gymnastics area, and the water park, where prominent sports figures train. At the Flamengo Museum we will review the history of the club through images, audios, and t-shirts. The best thing about this visit is that we will be able to see upclose the trophies that the club has accumulated over the years, such as Libertadores 2019, the Super Cup, and the Recopa 2020. Our day will not be complete without stopping by the official Flamengo store to acquire a souvenir of the experience.
Overnight: Rio de Janeiro
Meals: Breakfast