Rocinha Favela Tour: Insights into South America's Largest Urban Slum
4.9
7 Ratings
Rio de Janeiro
The Rocinha has emerged as a significant tourist spot in the city lately, drawing crowds who are keen to explore the community renowned for inhabiting one of the biggest city slums in South America. Beyond being a mere attraction for tourists, a visit to the Rocinha favela offers an insightful and profound social encounter.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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Rocinha - Rocinha is one of the largest favela in Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one kilometre from a nearby beach. Most of the favela is on a very steep hill, with many trees surrounding it.
Although Rocinha is officially classified as a neighbourhood, many still refer to it as a favela. It developed from a shanty town into an urbanized slum. Today, almost all the houses in Rocinha are made from concrete and brick. Some buildings are three and four storeys tall and almost all houses have basic sanitation, plumbing and electricity. Compared to simple shanty towns or slums, Rocinha has a better developed infrastructure and hundreds of businesses such as banks, medicine stores, bus routes,
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Local professional guide
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
Additional Information
- Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Rocinha
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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E7098lpriccardob
Apr 10, 2024
Advised! - Thanks to the collaboration of Gianluca from Milleviagens, we organized a trip that touched Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
In the Rio de Janeiro stop, in addition to the city tour (very well organised), we also included a visit to the Rocinha favela to try to understand the daily reality of millions of Brazilians.
The tour with the guide in Italian is extremely interesting and allows you to see without too many filters what the common life of a part of Rio's population is in safety.
We definitely recommend booking such a visit during your stay in Rio,
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109katiao
Mar 10, 2024
Absolutely worth visiting - We have just returned from this wonderful experience with Milleviagens chosen through the reviews here on TripAdvisor
The guide Monica picked us up at the hotel and showed us the Rocinha favela in complete safety, also showing us the various social projects that involve this experience.
Absolutely recommended to all those who want to understand the complex Carioca reality.
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Massimod760
Aug 28, 2023
Excellent experience - If you want to experience and get to know Rio de Janeiro from a different perspective than usual, if you want to take an extremely particular tour you absolutely must take the tour of the Rocinha favela, the largest in Rio with its 70,000 inhabitants. The favela is not just poverty and degradation but there are also many people who work on social projects and the integration of children into society. Highly recommended
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92ob107
Jun 25, 2023
Amazing tour of nothing remotely relatable to anything I’ve seen before - We had an amazing 1/2 day tour with Martin, a knowledgeable and well known guide in the area. We were never afraid, and had our 18 year old granddaughter with us. It’s quite a strenuous tour with lots of stairs up and down. If you have bad knees, better pass on this one.
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