This is one of the main tourist attractions in Rio so we decided to go and see what it was all about.

We caught an uber to the cable car which worked really easily and then bought out tickets to the top.

You have to go up in two separate cable cars- the first one from the base of Morra da Babalonia to Morro da Urca and from there to Sugarloaf’s summit. The highest point is 396m above the harbour. The rock itself is made from quartz and granite which is why it has weathered so well.

Looking down from sugarloaf mountain across Rio:

Looking back up at the peak:

The views were stunning. However, we didn’t seem to be having much luck with the weather and as we were up at the summit it started to rain quite heavily – we got soaked:

And the view once we got back down shows how cloudy it was.

But again- definitely worth doing. As you looked across Rio you could just see the Christ the Reedemer statue on a peak opposite- it looked like he was floating on the clouds.

The rain had stopped by the time we got to the bottom so we walked back to the apartment stopping for some delicious late lunch on the way. We didn’t realise until about 12pm but the clocks all went back an hour in Brazil today!

In the evening we went for a snack and a caipirinha before coming across some local live music in a small bar – it was really good even though we couldn’t understand what they were singing about.