Overview & Highlights
At Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival, the world's most colourful festival, you’ll have sector 9 seats at the Samba School parade. After five days of fun move on to chic beach resort Búzios to relax.
- Jeep tour in Rio – Corcovado Mountain and Santa Teresa District Samba school parade grandstand seats with transfers to and from your hotel
Carnival 2021 begins on 12th February! Come to Rio and join the party.
Street bands and parties, parades, fancy-dress balls, impromptu and planned concerts and gatherings spring up all over Rio during five days of Carnival, the world's biggest party. The two-day parade of Samba Schools, in the purpose-built sambodromo, is the ultimate highlight, where the costumes, dancing and music of the competing schools whips the audience into a frenzy. We accompany you to your seats in the well positioned Sector 9 and see you back to your hotel safely at the end.
This good value holiday includes the price of the tickets to the parade as well as a guided excursion to the Christ statue on the top of Corcovado mountain. There's free time to enjoy the fun in the city independently. When the excitement is abruptly extinguished on Ash Wednesday you travel along the coast to the chic beach resort Búzios for a couple of days to relax and recover on a beautiful Atlantic Ocean bay.
Outline itinerary
Day 1
Transfer from airport to hotel facing Copacabana beach.
Day 2
Visit Corcovado Mountain and its statue of Christ the Redeemer.
Day 3
Attend the Parade of Samba Schools in Rio’s Sambodromo.
Day 4-5
At leisure in Rio.
Day 6
Transfer by road to beach resort Buzios.
Day 7-8
At leisure on the beach.
Day 9
Transfer to Rio airport for international flight home.
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