Sugarloaf Mountain [Pão de Açúcar] & Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro

the Sugarloaf Mountain [Morro do Pão de Açúcar]  is a rock peak on a peninsula between Praia de Urca and Praia Vermelha.  

Pão de Açúcar means Sugarloaf.
It was named because the shape of the peak resembled to sugarloaf.

the Sugarloaf Mountain [Portuguese: Pão de Açúcar] 

 

 

To go up the Sugarloaf Mountain [Pão de Açúcar], 

we need to take two glass-walled ropeways.

the entrance of ropeway [Portuguese: teleférico].
 

 

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First ropeway ascends to the Urca hill 

[Portuguese: Morro da Urca] (altitude: 220m). 

 

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second ropeway to the top of 

the Sugarloaf mountain [Pão de Açúcar].

the view of Sugarloaf mountain from Urca Hill.

 

 

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 The tour guide drove to the next sightseeing spot.

 

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Copacabana beach [Portuguese: Praia do Copacabana]

 

Episode of Sugarloaf Mountain [Pão de Açúcar]

Tomo & Chouchou booked local Japanese tour guide to look around Rio de Janeiro. Our tour guide drove to the Sugarloaf Mountain[Pão de Açúcar] between Praia de Urca and Praia Vermelha. We got off the car and we took ropeways [teleférico]. Ropeway was very big. It can carry 65 passengers.
To reach the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain [Morro do Pão de Açúcar], we needed to take two ropeways. First ropeway ascends to the Urca hill [Morro da Urca] (altitude: 220m). From the Urca hilll, we could see big Sugarloaf Mountain very close. Then, we needed to take the second ropeway to go up to the top of Pão de Açúcar (altitude: 396m). It was thrilling to see our approach to Pão de Açúcar from the window of the ropeway. Unfortunately, on that day, we couldn't see the top of the Sugarloaf Mountain because of the fog. According to our local guide's stroy, the area around the summit of Pão de Açúcar tends to be foggy, so it's always difficult to see the beautiful summit clearly.
From the top of the Sugarloaf mountain, we could see the Atlantic Ocean, Guanabara Bay [Baía de Guanabara], yachts, white-sand beach, high building along the beach etc. We could see the typical scenery of Rio de Janeiro.

Tomo loves Brazilian music, especially Bossa Nova is Tomo's favorite. Tomo wanted to visit Praia do Copacabana & Praia de Ipanema because those were often sung. So Tomo asked the guide to take us to the beach. Our tour guide only accepted us to see the beach from the window of the car because there were many incidents on the beach. But Tomo really wanted to take a photo on the beach, so we asked strongly to our guide. Our tour guide finally allowed us to go to Copacabana beach only for 5 min. Even it was 5 minutes, we were super happy to walk on the Copacabana beach. It was the great moment to feel the Bossa Nova song on the famous beach.



Sugarloaf mountain ropeway/Teleférico Pão de Açúcar

Each ropeway takes 3 minutes. Total 6 minutes.
Open: 8am to 8pm (Departure: every 20 minutes)


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