Top Rio de Janeiro Unique Experiences

Immerse yourself in the culinary scene of Rio on this interactive evening at a small cooking studio. Learn about the flavors, ingredients and cooking techniques specific to Brazilian food from your instructor. Cook a meal, either Bahian seafood Moqueca or a black bean Feijoada, using what you learned and then enjoy the fruits of your labor. The class is limited to 7 participants to ensure an intimate experience and personalized attention.

Spend a half day in Rio hiking up Two Brothers (Dois Irmãos) Mountain in the company of a private trekking guide. Get views of Gávea Rock, São Conrado, Leblon, and Ipanema beaches. Have a look around both Sitiê Ecological Park and Favela do Vidigal and enjoy round-trip transportation from Rio hotels.

Hit the waves near Rio de Janeiro for this 8-hour surfing excursion on the lesser-known beaches of this Brazilian paradise. Whether you’ve surfed a few times or want to get a taste for this fun-loving activity, this beginner-focused session is a great starting point. Skip crowded Rio beaches like Ipanema and Copcabana to expore off-the-beaten-track spots like Barra da Tijuca, Reserva, Recreio and more, testing your skills with the help of an instructor. A 2-hour surfing lesson, all surfing gear, a snack and round-trip hotel transport are also covered.

Get an in-depth, compassionate tour of the Rocinha favela (the Brazilian term for shantytown) during this excursion via Jeep. With your in-the-know guide, meet the locals and observe their daily life, including visits to the neighborhood school and a street fair. Transportation from select hotels is provided.

Discover the biggest favela in Latin America with Nino, an Italian guide living and working in Rocinha since 4 years. Through your visit you're going to support directly the social projects run in the favela and the community English school for the kids from Rocinha. Rocinha is a stream of energy that the tour tries to reveal in a respectful and comprehensive way by showing scenes of this extraordinary everyday life. At the same time, the community school wants to raise awareness about the favela, the main issues that its inhabitants are facing nowadays and the social activities that are being developed inside of it for the young learners from the favela and their family.

The Favela Walking Tour is a local experience will make you look Brazil with another point of view. Since 1997 the project Morrinho was installed in the Pereira da Silva favela to “challenge the popular perception of the Brazilian favelas”, showing that the favela is an area of great cultural and social wealth, not only violence. The project reproduce in miniature the favela scenario using bricks and other recyclable material, created by children and young people of the Pereira da Silva community. During the waking tour you will meet the resident guide and gain insight into the challenges these communities face and learn how even through such difficulties the people of the favela are able to smile and welcome visitors. Ending the tour with visit to the Morrinho project where the founders will tell the history who has already traveled the world through smaller reproductions that were taken to exhibitions in Barcelona, Paris and Venice, as well as visiting cities throughout Brazil.

Visit the other side of Rio de Janeiro with this guided tour of the Rocinha favela, where you can discover the lesser known and surprising side of the Brazilian favelas. In this walking tour, we will have the opportunity to review our most negative prejudices associated with slums and connect with their most unknown part. We will prove the power of education by knowing closely the educational projects of social reintegration. Thanks to these programs, favela residents can achieve a better life without resorting to violence. In these areas of Rio, we can also find artistic manifestations and, in our tour, we will see the most famous graffiti of Rocinha. Some murals are authentic works of art that convey the feelings of the humblest Brazilians. The colorful buildings are another proof of the creativity of the inhabitants of Rocinha. After visiting the favela, we will return to the starting point in Rocinha to return to the Rio de Janeiro hotel zone.

Visit to the Maracanã Stadium with a personal photographer who will capture wonderful moments as you see this incredible place. Your tour also includes private transportation