-Day 1 Start tour
Day 2 Olà Rio de Janeiro
Meet your tour director and check into hotel
Details: Rio de Janeiro guided sightseeing tour
Stylish, sophisticated Rio thrills visitors with its beautiful beaches, stunning mountains, and innovative buildings. Most impressive may be the soaring cathedral, whose vast interior can accommodate 25,000 people. Four enormous stained-glass windows throw colored light down on the space, unbroken by columns or other supports. Back outside, you may feel that you've escaped to Paris -- the theater house and art museum were modeled after Paris's ornate Opéra Garnier and Louvre museum.
Day 3 Rio de Janeiro landmarks
Details: Corcovado Mountain ascent via cogwheel train
Rio's most spectacular landmark, up close and personal. Go up Corcovado ("hunchback") Mountain on a Swiss-made cogwheel train, through the lush Tijuca National Forest, and arrive at the top to see the statue of Christ the Redeemer that gazes out over the city. The views from the mountain are astounding, as is the statue itself. It stands almost 100 feet tall and weighs over 1000 tons.
Details: Sugarloaf Mountain ascent
Jump in what may be your most spectacular glass-elevator ride ever. Sugarloaf Mountain (named because it resembles the ceramic mold used to refine sugar cane) rises up from the intersection of Guanabara Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. You'll take a glass-sided cable car up the peak, where you'll find amazing views of the entire city and beyond.
Details: Brazilian evening
Indulge in the flavours, sounds, and sights of traditional Brazilian culture, from samba dancing to capoeira martial arts.
Day 5 Rio de Janeiro--Iguaçu Falls
Fly to Iguaçu
Details: Iguaçu Falls Brazilian Side
The spray from the enormous and spectacular waterfalls in the Iguaçu National Park create a lush rainforest environment filled with unique animals. Keep an eye out for giant otters and giant anteaters, as well as exquisite orchids and other plants, as you explore. Get up close and personal with Iguaçu Falls, which splashes down from more than 50 feet above. A stone staircase leads up to the Iguaçu River above.
Day 6 Iguaçu National Park
Rainforest walk
Iguaçu River cruise
Details: Iguaçu Falls Argentinean side
The spray from the enormous and spectacular waterfalls in the Iguaçu National Park create a lush rainforest environment filled with unique animals. The Argentinean park is large and it has different trails to discover the falls little by little and enjoy the fantastic rainforest that surrounds the waterfalls.
Day 7 Iguaçu Falls--Buenos Aires
Day 8 Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires guided sightseeing tourSan Telmo comic strip walk,
San Telmo market visit,
Obelisk on 9 de Julio Avenue,
Colón Theater,
Plaza de Mayo,
Casa Rosada,
Buenos Aires Cathedral,
Puerto Madero,
Plaza de San Martín,
La Recoleta,
La Boca & Caminito visit Tango Show
Details: Buenos Aires guided sightseeing tour
Smoldering with history, beauty, and passion, Buenos Aires' streets and plazas exude a sophistication unrivaled in South America.
Details: San Telmo comic strip walk
Walk the San Telmo sculpture trail dedicated to Argentina's most popular comic strip characters.
Details: San Telmo market visit
Large indoor market with stalls offering everything from antiques to fresh fruit and spices. With a typically Italian facade and large interior spaces, the Mercado de San Telmo opened in 1897 to cater to the needs of the new wave of immigrants arriving from Europe. The building was declared a national historic monument in the year 2000.
Details: La Boca & Caminito visit
Located in La boca neighborhood, Caminito (little path, in Spanish) is a street museum of colorful painted houses typical of the immigrant dwellings that came to characterize this port side area towards the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century.
Day 9 End tour
Free time in Buenos Aires
Details: Fly home
Your flight home is overnight. You will return home on Day 10.
Day 10 Return home
-Day 9 Start extension to Chile
Day 10 Santiago landmarks
Details: Santiago guided sightseeing tour
See all the essential and spectacular Santiago sights such as Plaza de Armas and San Cristobal Hill on this guided tour.
Day 11 Viña del Mar
Full-day Viña del Mar and Valparaíso excursion
Day 12 End tour
Details: Travel home
Your flight home is overnight. You will return home on Day 13.
Day 13 Return home
Tour Includes:
- Round-trip airfare
- Flights to Iguaçu and Buenos Aires (and Santiago on extension)
- 7 overnight stays (10 with extension) in hotels with private bathrooms
- Breakfast daily
- Lunch & dinner daily
- Full-time services of a professional tour director
- Guided sightseeing tours as per itinerary
- Visits to select attractions as per itinerary
- Tour Diary™
- Local Guide and Local Bus Driver tips; see note regarding other important tips
- Note: On arrival day only dinner is provided; on departure day, only breakfast is provided
- Note: Tour cost does not include airline-imposed baggage fees, or fees for any required passport or visa. Optional excursions, optional pre-paid Tour Director and multi-day bus driver tipping, among other individual and group customizations will be listed as separate line items in the total trip cost, if included.
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