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High-end kosher trips to Iguazu Falls and Rio or Buenos Aires — stay at Belmond Hotel das Cataratas. This year you won't wait in line for a table.
The only hotel inside Iguazu National Park. A pink Portuguese colonial property, built in 1958, facing the cataracts.
Walk the trails at sunrise, hours before the day visitors arrive. Stay for the full moon walks, when the spray catches the moonlight and a lunar rainbow appears across the falls.
Before the trip, we call each guest to design the menu together. We fly in the mashgiach from São Paulo with the kosher ingredients — meat, cheese, and local snacks — and the meals are prepared with the Belmond chefs under our supervision.
The culinary experience is designed to be among the most memorable meals of your travels, shaped together with the Belmond chefs and our kosher team.
Reserve Your StayTwo cities. One arrival. Iguazu Falls at the close.
A six-day journey starting in Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires — Rio or Buenos Aires for the first half of the trip — then onward to Iguazu Falls and two nights at the Belmond Hotel das Cataratas, inside the national park.
Three nights on Copacabana.
Arrive Thursday morning. Settle in at the Fairmont Rio Copacabana on the beachfront. Shabbat is observed in the hotel, with kosher meals prepared on-site by our Rio kosher chef. Chabad Beit Lubavitch is a walk along the beach. The days are spent in the city — Sugarloaf, the Botanical Gardens, the streets of Santa Teresa.
Three days at Iguazu, two nights at Belmond Hotel das Cataratas. The Brazilian side first, for the panorama. The Argentine side next, for the depth. Then a final morning — the Macuco Safari boat to the base of the falls, the helicopter for the scale of it from above — before the flight home.
Rio at the Fairmont Copacabana or Buenos Aires at the Alvear Icon. Both with kosher meals on-site.
The only hotel inside the Iguazu National Park on the Brazilian side. Belmond guests have access to the trails up to six hours beyond public park hours — before 9am and after 5pm.
Mashgiach-supervised meals at Belmond Cataratas and the Fairmont Copacabana, plus the in-house kosher restaurants at the Alvear Icon and the Once kosher cluster in Buenos Aires.
January is peak summer in South America. Iguazu Falls averages 85°F and tropical. Buenos Aires is warm and dry. Rio is beach weather.
Mashgiach-supervised meals at both Belmond Cataratas and the Fairmont Copacabana — flown in from São Paulo, prepared with the hotel chefs. The Alvear Icon in Buenos Aires has two kosher restaurants in the building. Buenos Aires has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the strongest kosher infrastructure.
Yeshiva Week falls at different times for different schools. This is a fully private trip — we coordinate the dates around your family's specific calendar, not a fixed group departure.
January is the rainy season in the region, which means the falls are at their highest flow of the year. The roar is louder, the spray reaches higher, and the rainbows are more frequent.
Two nights, three days inside Iguazu National Park at Belmond Hotel das Cataratas — the only hotel inside the park. The Brazilian side for the panorama, the Argentine side for the depth, and the Macuco Safari boat under the falls.
Three nights in Rio de Janeiro at the Fairmont Copacabana, or in Buenos Aires at the Alvear Icon in Puerto Madero. Either way, you're in the heart of one of South America's defining cities.
Argentine steaks, Italian pasta, fresh sushi, and yes — the only glatt kosher McDonald's outside Israel. Mashgiach-supervised meals at the hotels, kosher restaurants in the buildings, and the strongest kosher food scene in the southern hemisphere. Rio is nice too.
Dream of spending top dollar to wait for seating outside the kosher restaurants on Harding Avenue? Want to go where you've already been three years in a row?
This is the alternative.
Belmond Hotel das Cataratas has 187 rooms and they sell out for January. The kosher portion of the operation requires advance planning. We book this trip closing in the fall, not in November or December.
Tell us when you'd like to travel and we'll send a tailored proposal.