Teaching tourism in the slum.
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One of our most successful and requested sustainable tours.

 Visitors get to see first hand the lifestyle of this community Rocinha. If you are looking for an insider point of brazilian view, the Favela Tourism Workshop will introduce you to another Rio. Be assured this in an absolutely safe tour as the locals welcome tourists and visitors alike. You may also purchase locally handcrafted items while on tour.


Photo by Fabritzia Piasenski

A 3-hour daily tour

Everyday at 10:00am or 2:00pm.
On weekends at 11:00am

English / Spanish / French / Italian - Speaking Guides

         

 
 

The favela tour is a walking tour inside the biggest slum in Latin America. Rejane Reis, owner of Exotic Tours, trains local people how to be guides as a sustainable project inside Rocinha. Our work inside favelas started in 1991 and has growing along these years and became an improvement project visited by many important TV’s, journals and magazines around the word and also thousands of people from the globe looking for different sightseeing's and points of view of Rio de Janeiro and its culture. Your visit will help a local school as well as create work opportunities within the community.




Our Sustainable Tourism Project was the first one inside favelas in Brazil. The biggest purpose of our tour is to show another reality of Rio de Janeiro and along with that, give opportunity of work for those who lives in the community. We do not say we help, we show it to you as the guide lives inside the favela and also study in our Tourism Workshop inside Rocinha. This not only give to them work and education as improves both, their knowledge and their self-esteem.

U$ 30

Price per person with discount for internet clients.
   

Credits to: John Ryan - Sandiego State University - Geography Dept.
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The reality is that Rocinha, despite its limitations, is different from that and on the tour we show you different culture, development and several activities they execute to make a living - from making handcraft to recycling plastic. In this regard, Rocinha is unique compared to other slums in Brazil, and indeed the world.  The locals visitors and their response has been highly positive as we are very sensitive and respectful about the dignity and privacy of them. The community respect and supports our tour because they are aware of the Sustainable Project and its benefits.

Comments:
“It's unique because local children act as the tour guides”.
 By Steve Kingstone, BBC NEWS, 2003.

 “Nous vous conseillons Exotic Tours non seulement pour le professionnalisme des guides mais aussi et surtout pour les programmes sociaux que Rejane Reis a développés au sein de la favelha de Rocinha”.
 www.solidaroad.org - 2003.

 “Thanks to Rejane Reis, through her business, Exotic Tours, Reis has trained neighborhood young people to escort curious outsiders through the favelas.Reis' tourism workshop brings some money into the community”.
By Robert Cross, Chicago Tribune, 2002.

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Contact:
(55 21) 8831-2031
(55 21) 9222.6972
(55 21) 7827.3024
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 Don't forget to mention that you are an internet client to guarantee the price - you need to book in advance - by e-mail or phone, otherwise you will pay the regular price U$38.
 

         

     

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