If you want to understand the urban contrasts and infrastructure discrepancies in Brazilian society, this is the tour for you!

About 22% of Rio de Janeiro's population lives in favelas. There are more than 1000 favelas in Rio. Tavares Bastos is the only one with no drug dealers.

This tour is specially recommended to: - people who are interested in deeply understanding Rio de Janeiro's society and its contrasts, - people interested in visiting a Favela with ZERO chances of an encounter with any drug dealers, guns, fights or robbery, - people interested in soccer and videogames (we can play soccer in the FIFA game court), - people intesrested in Art (The Maze mosaic project).

This project was developed and is lead buy a local community leader, born and raised in Tavares Bastos, and part of the money goes to a social project that benefits the local residents, specially language classes for kids and teenagers. The social project was created in 2010.

I will pick you up at your hotel or Cruise port. My car will be parked at Museu da República. We will proceed by motorcicle, buggy or VW van to the top of Tavares Bastos Favela, as the locals do. For about 2h, we will walk all around Tavares Bastos, with many stops to talk with the locals and visit the facilities within this neighborhood. We will visit a local house and family, play soccer at FIFA Street Game Court, visit the amazing Art project at The Maze and learn all about the favelas in Rio.

The special police (BOPE) headquarters is located in this favela, therefore, there are no drug gangs in this area and it is safe to walk all around.

At the end of the tour we will return to your hotel.

***This tour is not recommended for people with severe walking disabilities.*** ***This tour can include jiu-jitsu, percussion or dance classes. For an extra cost, we can hire the teachers living there to offer you private classes in the favela.***

The cost of this tour includes:

- Private transportation to/from your lodging

- Local transportation to the top of the favela and back

- Private Local Resident Guide

- Private Guide and Translation (Laís)

- Entrance fee to The Maze with internal guidance by the owner

- Coffee and cake at a local residents house

- Donation to local Social Project

- A safe experience full of knowledge and local stories

- The best of Brazilian hospitality :-)