Favela Tour - The path of Michael Jackson in Rio: Discover Rio's First Pacified Favela, Santa Marta

Santa Marta, the initial pacified shantytown in Rio, stands out as one of the rare, secure, and tourist-friendly areas, offering planned excursions aimed at drawing interest and funding for the enhancement of security and living standards.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Favela Scene - Favela Tour
What's Included
  • Guide
  • Inclined plane transport
Location
Praça Corumbá, 120
Praça Corumbá
Tourist information kiosk
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Katrin_r
Dec 7, 2023
Favella - Tour guide has showed all best spots of favella and I really liked it. He was helpful and kind. I appreciate this tour Katrin Ritter
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Ruby_c
Oct 21, 2023
Emotional and beautiful - Just knowing that the king of Pop was there was enough for me to get emotional. The statue of Michael is beautiful and accurate. The guide very helpful and kind.
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Simone_w
May 4, 2023
Great Guide! - Started off shaky the company not the guide but the company themselves gave me the wrong address. So I ended up an hour away. However, once I got there the tour was amazing. The guide knew the area well and explain everything. I would say if you go be prepared to climb many stairs
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Michael_k
Mar 24, 2023
Great tour guide and great tour - Jonathan was a great tour guide. Informative and insightful. Make sure you pack comfortable shoes. We did. We had a great time.
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Rodolfo_c
Apr 17, 2022
More than expected. Maria Salete is a great guide. If you love MJ, you're gonna love this. - This place has its own magic. We even danced to "They don't care about us" and walked the path of The King of Pop.
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Astrid_s
Apr 11, 2021
Favela tour - It was an unique experience. Our guide took us to see this Favela inside and I think it was the most important experience. Walking through the path that Michael Jackson went was also very interesting. Overall great experience, tour guide was very helpful.
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P3294vlchristinea
Aug 12, 2019
Favela tour was fab - Salete took us round her favela which she had lived in for 40 years. Everyone was really friendly. The favela has its own funicular to get to the top, and a few stops on the way up. The people all seemed content, it was very community oriented and there were lots of projects (adult education for free to learn many different languages) there were clubs for the kids in percussion, theatre, obviously football, music and even a gardening project. There was even a running track to keep fit. Yes the properties were close together, but very colourful. They had made the most of what they had - and all the cats were extremely well looked after - and fat!
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L_a
Dec 19, 2021
Birthday tour to Santa Maria - Our tour guide spoke very good English. He was knowledgeable and provided great details that gave the tour context. I would recommend this tour.
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