caving in the tijuca forest enables absolute contact with nature and the ability to admire the immense, rocky formations along the entire tijuca cave trail and to descent into each of the caves and caverns.

there are several areas with large climbing walls to train on like those at campo escola, as well both hidden and open, dark and sun-lit caves for spelunking.

one of the caves visible along the tijuca cave trail is the gruta do belmiro - this cave is located inside tijuca forest, on one of the slopes of morro archer (archer mountain).