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Rocinha Favela Tour: Insights into South America's Largest Urban Slum
4.8
12 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.
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:
24 hours
Highlights
- 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….
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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
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Local professional guide
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Food and drinks, unless specified
Additional Information
- Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- 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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(12 Ratings)
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V9116kcpaolom
Apr 14, 2025
A taste of Brazil - We bought with Milleviagens, through the always attentive and punctual advice of Gianluca, a 14-day package that allowed us to visit Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Morro de Sao Paulo.
Since it is low season at the beginning of autumn we had the opportunity to visit the tourist attractions calmly and without large lines thanks to the work of the guides who followed us step by step.
We recommend the tour of the Favela della Rocinha to be able to see with your own eyes a reality very often fictionalized and described in action films.
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Gianlucatz8413hy
Jan 20, 2025
Favela Tour in safety - During our holiday in Rio de Janeiro we visited the Rocinha Favela through a private excursion with an Italian guide that we found thanks to the search on this site.
It's a very interesting visit to help understand what the daily reality of life is for thousands of inhabitants and is undoubtedly to be done once in a lifetime.
Our experience was certainly positive and we would recommend this type of tour organized by Milleviagens that has transmitted us security and professionalism.
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R6730dzelenam
Nov 6, 2024
Favela Tour in safety - An experience that makes you think a lot.
Milleviagens had assured us that their "Favela Tour" was focused on the possibility of knowing the reality of life of millions of Brazilians in complete safety and so it was.
Thanks to this visit we returned home with a personal knowledge of Brazilian society that we recommend to all readers.
We thank Gianluca for his kindness towards us in the private transfer from our apartment.
Elena and Michele
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Y3352docaterinac
Oct 9, 2024
Super recommended to visit Brazil safely - Our summer holidays 2024 we spent visiting a small part of that immense country which is Brazil.
We relied on Milleviagens after several searches on specialized sites for a number of factors, the main of which were the fact that we do not speak Portuguese and that we wanted to be followed and assisted in case of need during our trip by local staff.
The choice was also apt thanks to the patience shown by Gianluca and his staff from the estimate stage and throughout the trip.
We visited Rio de Janeiro, Foz do Iguaçu, Salvador and the Lençois Maranhaensis and had really fabulous experiences.
In Rio, the visit of the Rocinha Favela gave us an up-close look at an urban reality that we did not think was so lively and at the same time difficult to experience.
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Anonymous
Apr 30, 2024
Awesome memories for life - Integrating with the friendly people. We felt we were one of the same. Our guide introduced us to several street foods and drinks. Our guide was a 6 out of five. The Best!
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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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John
Mar 30, 2025
Interesting insight but needs some improvement - The tour was very interesting. The guide was inexperienced and really didn’t show/explain much of what we were seeing. For instance, we stopped first at a bar which had a good view of the favela. We were left for too long being expected to buy drinks when we could have had an explanation given of what we were seeing. We didn’t expect to be asked for money at the next stop/exhibit either which was a bit embarrassing. Overall, what we saw us a gave an interesting insight into life in the favela. The conduct and content of the tour could do with some improvement.
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