Favela Tour In Rio With Transfer Service

Not what I was expecting. The driver / guide was nice and picked me up at the confirmed location however when we got to the Favela, there was no commentary on the history of the area, how it's governed and how the locals lived. We were taken on scooters to the top of the Favela and told were we could and couldn't take pictures. Then we made our way back down by foot and that was about it. We made one stop to a capoeira school which was great. But that was about it. Can't really recommend it

Be ready for lots of colorful walking up and down, exciting street business and traffic and noise. Interesting activities and people to watch and enjoy

Very interesting-Manuela the guide was very accommodating to my 80 year old mum who wanted to see the favela. It was steep and narrow but she managed

If you are debating going on this tour, definitely go! I had heard that it was controversial, but learned that visiting the favela, is helpful for their economy. Plus, it’s educational & fun! Thiago was a great guide, thank you! Highly recommend 😁

I loved this tour to the favela and enjoyed our guide Lydia. She took us to great places--especially the viewpoints. I would've given this 5 stars but the ride to the favela for 5 people was very tight--not comfortable. It would have been sufficient if only three people, but five, it was crowded--especially since the ride took about an hour due to traffic. Still seeing the favela up close and personal was a real treat. We felt safe and comfortable there.

You cant come to Rio and not see the favela(s) We saw Rocinha, one of the largest. Amazing experience. Authentic local guide from the community. Wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. Our guide Helio is a legend. Thank you!

Really enjoyed the experience! Carlos was a great guide and Mateus was a great driver. Would recommend this tour for seeing a variety of things at Rocinha.

Had a great time with our guide Hélio. Hélio took us through his home neighborhood of Rochina, where he clearly knew everyone and is a popular character! We were particularly pleased with how responsive & adaptive Hélio was - he quickly sensed which aspects of the tour were of greatest interest and changed the itinerary accordingly. Tour represented excellent value for money and we felt like we gained some authentic insights. Thank you!

Put this on your MUST DO list for Rio de Janeiro. The opportunity to visit and learn about life from a guide with local knowledge whilst feeling very safe. We had 3 people on our tour so it was very customised to us. We visited local artists, went to a house and took a motorbike ride.

Very interesting and insightful tour with local, experienced guide, Ellio. Only 4 on tour and at good pace Busy Rochina favela, walked from top back to bottom, through narrow alleyways, along bustling thoroughfares. Some quite dirty areas but always lots of people around doing their everyday jobs. Lots of rubbish at different points waiting for twice daily collection. Saw school, hospital, shops, a living room house. Heard about charity work to help children being completed by ex drug dealers.

Brilliant day with my guide Hélio seeing all of Rochinha favela highly recommend booking this experience

My trip today with Carla was excellent. She was fun and experienced with knowledge. Her command of spoken English was great. I would highly recommend her and the tour

I really enjoyed the this tour. It was very interesting to see the daily life in the favella. People were friendly and I felt safe the whole time. My tour guide, Danielle was excellent.

The driver/guide never showed up. I waited for an hour. I tried to contact the tour company and no one ever replied.

An absolutely fantastic tour with Leo (Leonardo) a local guide. He went out of his way to make me feel comfortable and see life in Rochina. I was the only one on the tour, so a massive thank you for allowing this to go ahead before my flight later that day! A valuable experience. I’d highly recommend this tour. Go for it!

I enjoyed my tour thru the Favela. We walked from the bottom to the top and back discussing the various sights along the way. My guide suggested we use a motorcycle taxi to get to the top but I thought it not necessary. If I had to do it again I woud opt for the ride up to the top, its a considerable amount of walking and the sidewalks are not the best.

Dario was great as a tour guide. Didn’t expect the very long walk up to the middle of the favela. It was not like what you see in the movies you really got a feel for how the other half of Brazilian life goes on.

Our tour with Ellio was the real deal. He told us the history and shared with us the culture of the favelas. He introduced us to lots of people and he clearly knew his way around. There is no way you should do his without someone as experienced and knowledgeable as Ellio however, and the smaller the group the better. We had a brilliant morning and felt like we knew Rio better for doing it.

What a fantastic morning visiting Rocinha favela with Daria who was a marvellous friendly guide. We now know all the history and took a motorcycle taxi up to the top and met some inspirational people who live and work there. The views were insane. Thank you Daria for a great trip. Highly recommended.

Our guide was excellent. The company helped with our luggage and transferred us to another hotel when dropping us off.

We really enjoyed this glimpse into life in Rocinha. It's a really interesting place and the people we met were really cool. Thanks for a great day Dario!

The tour was great! And something we have wanted to do for a long time. Dario, our tour guide was excellent, charismatic and very helpful. He taught us a lot about the community and made it an experience we will never forget.

Very interesting tour. Our guide was knowledgable, polite and on time. Would just say for others booking this trip it is ok to take your phone etc to the favela as our guide said there is no theft in the favela.

<p>Manuela Onofre guided us on a very enjoyable tour of Rocinha Favela. She showed up promptly at our hotel and was quite knowledgable. We drove thru Rio to the hill where Rocinha is, and then walked down thru the Favela and met our driver at the bottom. Manuela answered all of our questions, and we felt quite safe during our tour. I would highly recommend her to anyone considering a Favela tour. We felt that it added significantly to our Rio experience.</p>

<p>Enjoyed this tour of the favela. It was a good experience to see the neighborhood with someone who is familiar with the area. Though the favela's have a reputation of being dangerous I felt comfortable and safe with our guide.</p>

<p>we started from the top and went down seeing the every day life in the biggest favela in rio, good and helpful guide, interesting tour, we were only three people in a very nice private car, it was like a private tour, very value for money, picked up and dropped off at the pier. Strongly recommend it.</p>

<p>It was reasonably interesting, although I liked the one of Santa Marta slightly better.</p>

<p>A fascinating walk through the streets and narrow alleys of the favelas. Eduardo was very informative. The residents were extremely friendly too.</p>

1 hour drive there, 1 hour drive back, approx. 5 min walk into the favela, waited approx. 45 min on a rooftop terrace, then 1 floor for a 10 min show by residents, then 2 floors higher to a restaurant and view, paid 30 reais per person for the view, then souvenir shop with mass-produced Chinese goods, walk back to the bus Booked a German guide, guide could barely speak German.

Incredible experience! Umberto, the driver, perfect and punctual. Elio, the guide, super!!!!! Knowledgeable and a speaker of 5 languages, a resident of Rocinha, very likeable (he could be on television), one of a kind!

There was a very nice German-speaking guide, and the tour was very informative; the car he picked us up in was very well-maintained, and the tour through the favela was amazing! Many thanks to Riccardo.

The Rocinha favela is a 5-star favela. It remains very touristy but still to be seen to get an idea of how you live. Thanks to the local guide Elio, we could not have happened a better guide.

A great experience knowing the favelas from the inside and especially with someone local. We feel very safe at all times. We had a surprise prepared with a Samba and capoeira school with children from the neighborhood where we sang and danced. Thank you very much Elio for the beautiful walk!! I really enjoyed it with my kids.

Visit the Rocinha favela with Helio. A meeting that is simply magical. Helio has a sympathy, benevolence, energy to the test. We had met him on our excursion to Larque Park and the Garden and he offered to show us the favela. 10/10 !!! Not once did we feel threatened or anything. He explained everything, told us when we could film or not. Booked a surprise with a small group of capoeira, we ate a delicious meal + the incredible motorcycle taxi ride. If you cross paths with Helio, know that your day will be sunny and full of good humor, even if it rains!!!

We had the chance to spend an evening in this fabulous place teeming with life and activity, a unique experience since we were in the company of Brazilians, therefore outside the tourist circuits often full of scams, an excellent time in simple and friendly places with the Brazilian population.

Man hat eine falsche Vorstellung wie es in einer Favela zugeht . Die Menschen sind freundlich , stolz und es fehlt an nichts . Schule , Friseur , Bäcker , Kfz-Werkstatt ……alles vorhanden .

Am 24.09.23 erfolgte eine Tour durch die Rocinha-Favela. Der Guide, sein Name ist Dario, war ca. 9:00 Uhr am Hotel angekommen und fuhr danach zum Strandviertel São Conrado, wo sich hinter Luxushotels und gehobenen Apartments die Favela befindet. Man hat die Möglichkeit entweder per Motorradtaxi oder zu Fuß den oberen Aussichtspunkt der Favela zu erreichen. Ich empfehle sportlichen Menschen den Fußmarsch-man sieht dadurch einfach viel intensiver, wie die 150.000 Menschen in der Favela leben. Sehr gut hat Jessica Wagener “Die Kinder von Riconha” die Lebenssituationen der Menschen beschrieben. (Bericht zufällig im Internet gefunden) Die letzten 100m vorm Ziel geht es sehr steil bergauf. (<15%) Die Aussicht über die Favela ist jedoch phänomenal. Gleichzeitig ist der Aussichtspunkt eine Art Hilfsorganisation-der Gründer versucht mit Spenden das Leben der Kinder zu verbessern. (keine Gewalt, keine Drogen, kein körperlicher Missbrauch usw.) Nach einer freiwilligen Spende ging es über eine Alternativroute wieder bergab. Die Briefzustellung in den Seitengassen erfolgt über mehrere zentral abgestellte Briefkästen, diese sind nicht verschlossen, sondern die Leute respektierten die Post der anderen Bewohner und nehmen nur die für sie zutreffenden Briefe heraus. Nach ca. 2,5h in der Favela war die Tour beendet. Man erhält hilfreiche Hinweise vom Guide (Alltagsgestaltung der Menschen usw.) sowie tolle Einblicke in das Leben der ärmeren Menschen in Rio. Gern möchte ich an dieser Stelle erwähnen, dass das mulmige Gefühl schnell abgelegt werden konnte, denn die angetroffen Menschen waren alle freundlich und nicht aggressiv. Es darf auch benannt werden, dass durch die politische Situation weltweit, immer mehr Menschen aus der unteren Mittelschicht in die Favela ziehen müssen. Genießen Sie die tollen Einblicke dieser unvergesslichen Tour.

Superbe visite. Le guide Elio est exceptionnel. Il connaît la Favela comme sa poché. Ce.sont des villes dans la ville de rio ou la pauvreté est très présente et peut choquer.

Bel giro della favelas Rocinha con la guida Neuza, di nazionalità brasiliana che parlava un italiano perfetto. Abbiamo gradito molto parlare e girare con lei. Consiglio questo tour a tutti per capire qualcosa di più della realtà del meraviglioso Brasile!

Great experience, with a great guide who speaks very well 6 languages thank you very much Juan🎉 know all corners

Une communauté souvent très pauvre mais sage. La montée au sommet de la Favela permet un aperçu général. A faire.

Favela da Rocinha was wonderful. With the best guide Leonardo we toured the entire Favela and talked with its inhabitants. It was a unique experience we love

We had the pleasure of visiting the favela rocinha, everything went very well, our neusa guide was super, very kind listening very professional, we are very happy to have been able to visit thanks to you the favelas rocinha 😊 we recommend you without hesitation, thanks to you and the neusa guide who was really perfect 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I liked that walk. It was a unique experience not to mention the view that we have from above: surreal! I want to highlight here also the agency that was super attentive with my family, giving all support and the guide was wonderful! Super recommend!!!!

Una experiencia única, conocer la vida cotidiana de los que viven ahí. No teman las personas son amables cuando vas con un guía, el de nosotros fue un gran señor que nos enseñó de todo. Muy agradecidos

<p>On est venu nous chercher au domicile avec une voiture privée, un chauffeur Italien sympathique avec qui nous avons pu discuter. En arrivant à la favela, nous n'étions pas très rassuré, mais notre guide nous a vite tranquillisé.Aucun soucis,on a pris des photos, filmé.C'est vraiment impressionnant et à faire absolument.Seul bémol, le guide parlait anglais avec un accent à couper au couteau et surtout trop vite.Du coup nous n'avons pas pu tout comprendre de ses explications.</p>