Make sure to start your day early having a breakfast and visiting the wonderful "Forte de Copacabana"! Arrive early cause there is always big lines! As soon as you enter in the Historic Fort make sure to rush to the "Confeitaria Colombo" and ask for a table with view to the Copacaba Beach (if you arrived early enough it won't take long!) now you can go explore the fort and it's museums and they will call you when your table is ready! Enjoy ๐
We did this hike in the morning to break up our drive as we are on a road trip across the states! Great hike if you want a short but solid workout as itโs uphill up to the cave, with some boulder scrambling once you arrive to the cave entrance. Definitely worth a stop, although it was overshadowed by the vastly more impressive Carlsbad Caves, which we did the next day!