observing rio de janeiro's impressive natural beauty is often an enlightening affair, but doing it whilst flying at over 16 hundred feet turns it into an adrenaline rush likes nothing else.

famed for a whole variety of sports, rio is not a city to miss out on the extreme ones, and hang gliding out of the tijuca national park is one of the favorites.

the place to do it is in one of rio's prettiest and most affluent neighborhoods, são conrado.