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BRASILIA, RIO DE JANEIRO AND SAO PAULO PACKAGE TOUR 10 DAYS 09 NIGHTS
Price per person
Minimun 2 pax
Carnival 2011: From Mar.04th to Mar.09th
Winners parade 2011 (only Rio): From Mar.11th to Mar.13th
Day 1 Arrival at Brasilia
Upon arrival, our collaborators will meet and transfer to your hotel.
Overnight in Brasilia.
Day 2 City tour: HD city tour (B)
Breakfast at Hotel.
Residential super blocks, Our Lady of Fatima Church, St. John Bosco Sanctuary, TV Tower,Militar Sector, JK Memorial (fee not included), Metropolitan Cathedral, Minitries Boulevard,Itamaraty Palace (Foreign Affairs Ministry), Three Powers Square, Democracy and Liberty Pantheon Lucio Costa Cultural Space, Jaburu Palace (Vice President), Alvorada Palace (President) and
South Embassies Sector.Overnight in Brasilia.
Day 3 Leisure time in Brasilia (B)
Breakfast at Hotel.Free Day for personal activities.
Overnight in Brasilia.
Day 4 Brasilia / Rio de Janeiro (B)
Breakfast at Hotel.
At schedule time, transfer to the airport to take your flight to Rio de Janeiro. Arrival at Rio de Janeiro, meet and transfer to your hotel. Overnight in Rio de Janeiro.
Day 5 Rio de Janeiro (B) City tour: FD Corcovado and Sugar Loaf with lunch
Breakfast at Hotel.
This is a combination package including the Corcovado and Sugar Loaf Tours, adding lunch. After pick-up, tour will take the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (lagoon) will reach the Rebousas tunnel, a 2.6 km long complex that links the southern and northern parts of the city cut in half by the Tijuca ridge that makes Rio the only city in the world to have a National Park 5 minutes from downtown. Reaching the Cosme Velho district, tour members will take a cogwheel train of Swiss manufacture that climbs the mountain from its base at 15 mts to almost its summit at 670 mts. The very top is reached by climbing a flight of steps reaching the base of Christ the Redeemer statue. This statue covered with a mosaic of soapstone is one of Rio's finest Art Nouveau monuments. The view, from this vantage point, with the surrounding Tijuca National Forest spreading below and a circle of moutains closing the horizon at the very back of the Guanabara bay. Tour will continue taking another way to return the hotel. Guide will take around 40 minutes to show the city and the statue to passengers. After this, returning to the train, and descending to Cosme Velho to board the bus to visit Sao Conrado and Pepino Beach, where the hanggliders soar. Lunch will be served in a tipical restaurant of Rio de Janeiro.
In the afternoon, tour will continue visiting downtown Rio and the highlights of a city that has been the capital of Colonial Brazil, the capital of the Portugal and Brazil Empire and now a Republic. The many attractions are the highlights of these periods and are part of the Brazilian National Heritage. The Sugar Loaf, known as Rio's postcard and a must to visit. Since the best time of the day to go up the cable car is later in the day tour will close at the Sugar Loaf. Sugar Loaf is reached on a two-stage cable car ride. This cable car, in operation is of Italian manufacture and takes 80 persons per trip on a 2-minute ride, each stage. The first stage, Morro da Urca - barely 170 mts high, has a restaurant, amphitheater, a helipoint for scenic rides and a privileged view of the Yacht Club and Botafogo Bay. The second stage takes one up to the Sugar Loaf - thus named because of the loaves of sugar that were commonly used by the Portuguese at the time of the discovery of the city. The all-encompassing view of this privileged 270-meter high lookout is unrivaled. This is the only site where one will have a full view of Copacabana beach.
Overnight in Rio de Janeiro.
Day 6 Leisure time in Rio de Janeiro (B)
Breakfast at Hotel. Free Day for personal activities.
Overnight in Rio de Janeiro.
Day 7 Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo (B)
Breakfast at Hotel.
At schedule time, transfer to the airport to take your flight to Sao Paulo. Arrival at Sao Paulo, meet and transfer to your hotel.
Overnight in Sao Paulo.
Day 8 Sao Paulo (B) City tour: HD city tour
Breakfast at Hotel.
The cultural heritage of a kaleidoscope of immigrants has made of Sao Paulo a city of unequaled history. From a first contact in 1554 when the indians worked together with the Portuguese conquerors to build a school and small village, to the contribution of European architects, engineers, Italian workers (who it is said to be the "builders" of Sao Paulo and Japanese devoted to agri-business, Sao Paulo has given a warm welcome and given to all who have worked hard a reward for their efforts.There is much to see in this 13,5 million city.
The city spreads as the eye can see and our tour will be restricted to a few and selected areas: Higienpolis - a residential area with modern apartment buildings; Pacaembu soccer stadium; the University of Sao Paulo main departments like the Medicine school and its Hospital and further away, covering a wide area the Dean's Office and the many departments. One of these is the world famous Butante snake farm and venom antidote manufacture.
Our next stop will be at hill in Morumbi where one can see the contrasting residential and business areas. Here is the State Government Palace - Palacio dos Bandeirantes for an outside visit and the Sao Paulo soccer stadium closing with a visit of Jardim Europa - a residential area.
The highlight of the tour is the Ibirapuera Park with beautiful gardens and lakes and the statue of the Bandeirantes (explorers) by Victor Brecheret. The park build in 1954 for the 4th centenary of the city houses the Chamber of Deputies, a Mausoleum for the 1932 heroes (revolution), Modern Art Museum - the house of the biannual Art Exposition, the Oca - a semi circular building with different expositions year round, the Planetarium and an Orchards that supplies the needs of the city of trees and decorative plants.
Closing the tour, a short drive through the old downtown - Prasa da Republica - square, Italia building, Roosevelt square and Paulista avenue, and the Liberdade district where one finds anything "Japanese".
Note: Butanta Institute and Museums are closed on Mondays.
Overnight in Sao Paulo.
Day 9 Sao Paulo (B)
Breakfast at Hotel. Free Day for personal activities.
Overnight in Rio de Janeiro.
Day 10 Sao Paulo (B)
Beakfast at Hotel.
At schedule time, transfer to the airport to take your departure flight.
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