Continuing my personal journey of visiting Amazing Race locations, today I'll spotlight Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Season 2, Leg 1. In this episode, teams traveled from the US to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They visited Christ the Redeemer Statue, rappelled down Sugarloaf Mountain, or found the "Girl from Ipanema" on Ipanema Beach (Detour), and then ended the leg at the Pit Stop near Urca. This episode originally aired on March 11, 2002.
Our Visit
I visited Brazil (with my husband Paul) in March of 2013. We spent 7 days in Brazil total. 5 days in Rio de Janeiro and 2 days in Foz do Iguaçu. I wrote an entire blog about my 7 days in Brazil here.
We joined a small group tour (3 tourists including ourselves), led by tour guide Alex to take us to Christ the Redeemer statue and then hike Tijuca National Forest. Our tour guide Alex was only able to drive us part of the way up, and we took a small train to the top.
As seen on the Amazing Race, we took the same gondola / cable car up (and down) Sugarloaf Mountain, but we did not see an option to rappel down Sugarloaf Mountain (much has changed in 11 years). I would have loved to rappel down the side of Sugarloaf Mountain. We spent the better part of one afternoon enjoying the views from Sugarloaf Mountain (Pao de Acucar).
After our visit to Sugarloaf Mountain, we took a short walk to the quiet fishing village of Urca (Amazing Race Pit Stop #1, Season 2).
If we had been contestants on Amazing Race, we would have selected the rappel challenge as it was closer to the Pit stop in Urca.
Colorful boats surround the harbor in Urca.
It took us about 3 days to visit the same sights as during this first leg of the Amazing Race. We visited Sugarloaf & Urca on Day 1, Ipanema Beach on Day 4, and Christ Redeemer on Day 5.
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