Pão de Açúcar

Go up for sunset and then do not leave. Almost everyone rides the cable car back down as soon as the sun is gone, and the twenty minutes after that is the best part of it - the whole bay going navy, the boats still out on it, and Rio switching its lights on underneath you one district at a time. Buy the ticket for late afternoon so you get both, take something warm because it comes up off the water, and let the first two cable cars down go without you.