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Hike to the highest point in Tijuca National Park with a private local guide.
Climb to the summit of Tijuca Peak inside Tijuca National Park for panoramic views over Maracanã, Barra da Tijuca, and Pedra da Gávea, guided by a local hiking specialist.
Climbing to the top of Tijuca Peak, in Tijuca National Park, is one of the most rewarding adventures in Rio de Janeiro. This private guided hike takes you to the summit, where you'll enjoy panoramic views of the city, including Maracanã, the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, and Pedra da Gávea.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Pickup from your Rio de Janeiro hotel.
Hike through one of the world's largest urban rainforests, right in the heart of Rio.
Reach the highest point in the park for sweeping 360-degree views.
Keep an eye out for monkeys, toucans, and other wildlife along the trail.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Climb to the summit of Tijuca Peak inside Tijuca National Park for panoramic views over Maracanã, Barra da Tijuca, and Pedra da Gávea, guided by a local hiking specialist. Climbing to the top of Tijuca Peak, in Tijuca National Park, is one of the most rewarding adventures in Rio de Janeiro. This private guided hike takes you to the summit, where you'll enjoy panoramic views of the city, including Maracanã, the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, and Pedra da Gávea.
Tijuca National Park, created in 1961 and now covering nearly 3,960 hectares, is one of the few genuinely large forests anywhere in the world that sits almost entirely inside a city's limits — hemmed in on every side by Rio's neighborhoods rather than open countryside. It forms part of the 'Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes' UNESCO World Heritage listing, recognized in 2012 for the unusual relationship between the city's mountains, forest, and sea.
What makes the park remarkable isn't just its size — it's that almost none of what you'll hike through is original forest. By the early 1800s, this entire hillside had been stripped bare for coffee plantations and charcoal production, and the deforestation had gotten severe enough to threaten Rio's water supply. In 1861, Emperor Dom Pedro II ordered it replanted, and the man who carried it out, Major Manuel Gomes Archer, began the work with a small enslaved labor force before shifting to paid workers; over roughly 13 years his team put in around 100,000 seedlings, almost all native Atlantic Forest species. His successor, Baron Gastão d'Escragnolle, added another 30,000 trees between 1874 and 1888 and turned the reforested hillside into a proper public park, with trails, lakes, and bridges. Altogether, more than 155,000 trees went into the ground across roughly 330 hectares in just over three decades — one of the first large-scale reforestation projects attempted anywhere, and the reason the 'virgin rainforest' feel of a Tijuca hike today is, in fact, entirely manmade.
Tijuca Peak (Pico da Tijuca) is the park's highest point, at just over 1,020 meters, and the last stretch to the summit involves stairs cut directly into the rock. From the top, the view opens up in every direction — north toward Maracanã, west over Barra da Tijuca, and across to the distinctive profile of Pedra da Gávea — with the whole climb passing through dense, genuinely wild-feeling Atlantic Forest canopy the entire way up.
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