Rio de Janeiro City

Rio de Janeiro needs 4 days: Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf Mountain on one, Copacabana and Ipanema on another, and Santa Teresa and Lapa (nightlife) for the rest. September-November brings mild weather ahead of the humid carioca summer heat. It's expensive by South American standards, with prices in the south zone (Copacabana, Ipanema) comparable to European cities. It's nicknamed the «Marvelous City» and is one of the few metropolises in the world where rainforest, mountains and urban beaches coexist in the same landscape, which earned it UNESCO recognition as a cultural landscape.