4-Hour Complexo do Alemão Favela Tour with Cable Ride
Highlights
Rio de Janeiro
educational, cultural, historical
Group Tour
4 Hours
Easy
English
Description
Book this unique tour to the North Zone of Rio, where most visitors never go. Explore a favela and meet a community leader while understanding the history and culture of favelas. Have a unique experience while riding a cable car suspended over the favela.
Itinerary
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Visit a Favela in the North side of Rio
Explore Complexo do Alemão (German‘s Complex), a group of favelas in northern Rio de Janeiro. It has a diverse ethnic history that began with Polish settlement. The favela now enjoys a majority Afro-Brazilian residency.
Understand the social and cultural reality of the residents of the slums in the North Zone.
Get an opportunity to meet "the other side of town”, an off the beaten path of Rio’s bustling downtown.
Travel by means of public transportation, including the first cable car system suspended in a favela. It will be a truly unique experience to see how locals navigate in the city of six million people.
Listen as the Rio de Janeiro tour guide explains, Brazil’s favela culture and history.
Explore the pockets of communities that are bonded by their marginal location and struggle for a higher quality of life.
Visit Ocados Curumins, a community-based organization that has been working for over 30 years. They are trying to help improve the lives of children, teens and seniors through education. Here, gain a better understanding of the issues facing favela communities and the efforts being made to bring changes in this important Brazilian subculture. Also, it would be a chance to meet a local community leader.
What's Included
Know Before You Go
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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| 1 to 3 | /person |
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This is a group tour |
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