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Bring your journey to life in unexpected ways with a Cox & Kings Signature Event. The best time to arrange for these events is at the time of your tour booking. A Cox & Kings travel specialist will be able to assist you with pricing and arrangements.
Sao Paulo's Contemporary Fashion & Design
Yachting on Paraty Bay with a Private Chef
Finding the Beat in Salvador
Samba School Rehearsal in Rio
Follow the Girl to Ipanema
Rio's Secret Beaches
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Sao Paulo's Contemporary Fashion & Design
The British Sunday Times Magazine recently declared Brazil the World's style destination. During your visit to Brazil, you will note the unique laid back sensual style of the Brazilian people, reflected in the country’s production of contemporary design, art and fashion. Nowhere is this more apparent than in São Paulo—Latin America´s most cosmopolitan city. Our specialist hosts will take you into some of the best shops and workshops of the hottest contemporary artists, designers, and fashion stylists, within the hip Vila Madalena and Jardins neighborhoods in São Paulo. The opportunity for an insider's, behind the scenes glimpse, will give you an understanding why Sao Paulo is certainly one of the most vibrant cities in the World.
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Yachting on Paraty Bay with a Private Chef
The Bay of Paraty is certainly one of the most beautiful parts of the Brazilian coastline. Most of its 365 islands are still virgin and covered with Atlantic rainforest, secluded pristine beaches and emerald green waters. The most exclusive way to explore this region is to spend the day aboard a private schooner or yacht. Add Paraty´s top Chef—Yara Roberts—to take care of lunch and the day becomes one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
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Finding the Beat in Salvador
Salvador is Brazil´s most African city and everywhere you go, the sound of rhythms will be around you. Visit a percussion school and social project whose aim is to transform street kids´ natural sense of rhythm into professionals of the music industry—be it musicians or technicians. In this private visit, you will be able to try out different percussion instruments with percussion instructors, meet the musicians, and even record a CD while discussing the future of the music industry.
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Early Morning Climb up Rio's Sugar Loaf
A must see in Rio de Janeiro, most travelers take the tram up the famous Sugar Loaf mountain. However, for active travelers, we have a different proposition—trek up the mountain. The trek is for fit travelers who want to experience one of the most beautiful climbs in their lives overlooking Rio´s Guanabara Bay. Most of the way up is a moderately steep walk with only a small stretch requiring rope security. On a sunny day in Rio, nothing beats an early morning climb up the Sugar Loaf followed by a delicious lunch in one of Rio’s informal restaurants in Ipanema.
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Samba School Rehearsal in Rio
From August to February the samba school of Rio meet up every week to rehearse their music. Rehearsals typically happen inside one of Rio’s favelas late on Friday or Saturday night. Have dinner with one of our specialist hosts in order to understand the meaning and social significance of Carnaval and from there, move on to one of the Samba schools to watch the samba rehearsals until late!
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Follow the Girl to Ipanema
No other city in the world has anywhere near the beach culture of Rio de Janeiro. In this full day program, you will experience the Carioca style day on the beach. Begin soaking up the sun in Posto Nove area of Ipanema. Around lunch time, move on to one of Rio’s traditional after-beach bars such as Bracarense and from there, lunch in one of Rio´s informal after-beach restaurants. Finish the day in hip and isolated Joatinga beach for a toast to the sunset before returning to your hotel at the end of the day.
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Rio's Secret Beaches
The vast majority of international travelers to Rio never go beyond Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. Few people know that there are beaches in Rio that are in the middle of natural preservation areas with virgin beaches and mountains. Your day starts off with a scenic drive towards the south along the coast passing through Ipanema, São Conrado, Barra da Tijuca and Recreio beaches. From then on, you enter the nature reserves outside Rio. Our first stop is the surfing beach of Prainha and then on to Grumari beach. From there, an optional private visit to the Burle Marx Estate—the farm belonging to Brazil´s premier landscape artist responsible for the most beautiful tropical gardens of Brazil. When hunger beckons, continue south to Barra de Guaratiba and have an unforgettable seafood lunch in Bira–arguably the restaurant with the most beautiful view in the region, before returning to Rio at sunset.
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