we highly recommend all hikers to enjoy rio's mountain trails accompanied by an experienced and certified hiking guide. in addition to the extra safety hiking guides can provide, professional guides are fluent in portuguese and would be indispensable in case of an emergency to communicate with rescue crews.

on this link we show pedra do conde on a wikimapia - the link as we present it is best seen using google chrome, as it might not open at the right coordinates or zoom correctly with other browsers.