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Rio De Janeiro: Half-Day Rocinha Favela Walking Tour

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Rio De Janeiro: Half-Day Rocinha Favela Walking Tour

Activity provider:LOCAL55 TRAVEL
4.7  / 5
1052 reviews
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Enjoy a walking tour at the Rocinha Favela in Rio, the largest favela of Brazil, and learn about life in the city’s famous shanty towns. Take a respectful tour with a favela resident, meet the locals, experience their lives away from stereotypes.

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Duration 4 hours
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Spanish, English, Portuguese

Experience

Highlights
  • Explore the largest favela in Rio in a non-intrusive manner
  • Learn about life in Rocinha, the biggest favela in South America
  • Meet the locals and hear their stories
  • Cut through the stereotypes and sensationalist headlines, and explore a favela in safety
  • Marvel at the beautiful cityscape of Rio de Janeiro
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Explore Rio’s largest favela on a half-day walking tour of Rocinha, the largest favela (shantytown) in South America. Organized by local, English speaking guides and favela hosts, the walking tour is respectful and non-intrusive to the residents. Subject of the movie "City of God," Rio’s favelas have fallen victim to unfortunate stereotypes. In order to correct this, and show you the true Rio de Janeiro, the favela tour will let you see and experience how daily life happens away from the sensationalist headlines. While other favela “zoo-tours” drive around in jeeps, you will get to walk the streets in small groups and meet the locals to hear their stories. Learn the history of the favela and its social and economic challenges. The tour cost also includes a monetary contribution to the favela community.

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  • Local guide
  • Walking tour
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pick-up

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Meet in front of Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel at 13:25. Address: Av Atlantica 1702, Copacabana

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  • Please wear comfortable shoes as you will be walking through the favela
  •  Bring your camera
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4.7 /5

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The tour was well conducted. The guide, Martin, explained everything really well and gave some good background knowledge about life in the favela. It was a very insightful tour of the lives of the people living here. I liked the fact that Martin took us into the favela using the transport that the community uses. Martin has been leading this tour for many years and knows a lot of the locals and so I felt very safe walking around the streets with him.

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July 17, 2023

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Stef – United KingdomVerified booking

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The tour was good. The guide was kind and answered our questions. Overall I'm satisfied, I saw beautiful views and understood a bit about the whole concept and history of the favela, its rules and inhabitants. There wasn't something exceptional in the tour itself - like the guide spending more time in explanations and storytelling, meeting impressive local characters or something that would make us wow, but given the circumstances it also might not be possible. So I'm overall happy.

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May 15, 2023

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Grisha – BulgariaVerified booking

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Great tour. Martin was clear about when and when not to pull out the camera, he gave some good info along the way and he made effort to interact with the locals to keep the rapport going in order to make it a safe experience. I’m really glad I took the tour and I also made some friends with others on the tour. 4 of us who were all solo travellers went for food and drink together afterwards.

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