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.

Exotic Tours was the first Tourism Operator to do sightseeing inside Rocinha's favela. The favela tour is a walking tour inside the biggest slum in Latin America. Rejane Reis, owner of Exotic Tours, is the pioneer in tourism inside Rocinha and now she 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.

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