Sugar loaf Mountain

The Must visit of the Must Visits, the world’s most famous rock beside Aires Rock of Australia. The best time to visit Sugar Loaf is in the late afternoon so you can assist the sund down behind the Corcovado and enjoy Copacaban and the City by night - wunderfull, millions of sparkling stars.

The visit is perfect to be combined with a walk trhough the streets of Urca neighbourhood and/ or to spent some hours in the sands of Praia Vermelha.

Pao de Acucar(in Portuguese for Sugar Loaf ), is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396  metres (1,299 ft) above sea-level, its name is said to refer to its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar. This may, however, be a folk-etymology, since it is believed by some that the name actually derives from Pau-nh-acuqua in the Tupi-Guarani language, as used by the indigenous Tamoios.

The mountain is only one of several monolithic morros of granite and quartz that rise straight from the water's edge around Rio de Janeiro. A glass-paneled cable car (in popular Portuguese, bondinho - more properly called teleférico), capable of holding 75 passengers, runs along a 1400-metre route between the peaks of Babilonia and Urca every half hour. The original cable car line was built in 1912. So familiar is this peak, the mere sight of it in a film is sufficient to establish the setting as Rio.