Private Custom Hidden Gems tour: Your Amazing Second Day in Rio!
Description
There´s much more to Rio than it meets the eye! This custom tour will surprise you with our precious hidden gems is absolutely perfect for those on the second day of visit in the wonderful city. Uncover local secrets and see little-known gems with your guide. This tour is ideal for visitors who want to go beyond the typical sights and get an overview of the city. This tour does not require entrance fees and offers free convenient pickup from any hotel in Rio, port, and national or international airport. Customize your tour to perfection choosing the nature, history or art focus of the tour: ●Fixed part: Lage Palace and Leblon Viewpoint ●With nature: Chinese View and Taunay Waterfall. ●With history: Royal Portuguese Library and Saint Benedict Monastery ●With art: Ethnicity wall and The Maze As a special request, you may ask for a visit to Santa Teresa instead of the tour´s focus.
Tour Options
Itinerary
This is our private itinerary with fixed and custom points. We may also custom this tour with places of your interest. Please send us a message after booking.
The largest urban park in the world.
This is a fixed part of the tour (cannot be removed) The Leblon viewpoint is the most amazing view of Rio!
This is a fixed part of the tour (cannot be removed). You will fall in love with the beautiful architecture of Lage Park´s Palace and learn about the love story behind it envolving a young Italian Opera singer...
Be amazed by this astonishing waterfall
You´ll see the breathtaking view of the best pagoda outside of Asia! This is an option as the nature focus of the tour.
The Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, is a Benedictine abbey located on the Morro de São Bento in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Mannerist style church is a primary example of Portuguese colonial architecture in Rio.
This is an option as the history focus of the tour.
One of the the largests graphites panels stared the world, according to the Guinness World Record, inspired by the Olympic rings representing the five continents and received the name of “ethnic groups”.
This palace and an artwork, made with colorful mosaics: One of the most amazing places you will see in the world!
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Any hotel in the city of Rio.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please note that busy times such as new years and carnival will limit the ammount of places to be visited.
- The tour duration is 8 hours plus 1 hour for lunch
- Communication through what's app mobile app is available.
- Wearing comfortable walking shoes is recommended.
- Wheelchair accessible vans may be provided. Please choose the "van" option at the time of booking.
- Special restaurants such as vegetarian or gluten-free are available, please advise.
- A small amount of walking is involved.
- Please note: The Maze Rio is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Colombo closes on Sundays.
Reviews(73)
Easy to work with and customize. Overall didn't require a lot of work on our part to see some of the attractions and areas of the city we didn't know much about in advance. Seeing the soccer stadium was more interesting than we thought it would be as Americans. The "maze" was unexpected and an unique experience.
Our second day in Rio was with the amazing and delightful guide, Isaac and his fabulous driver, Carlos. We had the BEST time! We visited the Selaron Steps and heard the inside story of this unique artist. Then we visited Tijuca National Park to see the beautiful waterfalls, followed by a visit to Praia Pepino Beach to watch the hang gliders descend and land right in front of us on the beach! We did a ride past Ipanema and Copa Cabana beach, and then went to Santa Theresa village for lunch and a bit of shopping! Definitely recommend lunch at Sao Joaquim with the wonderful samba guitarist. Isaac is fabulous, and Carlos is fun, this tour is not to be missed! Read more about - Private Custom Hidden Gems tour: Your Amazing Second Day in Rio! - https://www.viator.com/tours/Rio-de-Janeiro/Private-9-hour-second-day-in-Rio-de-Janeiro/d712-38668P4?mcid=56757
Hello dear, we are thrilled you enjoy our HIDDEN GEMS! It´s a delightful tour to guide, so we do it happily. Thank you so much for your loving support. God bless you always!
Our second day in Rio was with the amazing and delightful guide, Isaac and his fabulous driver, Carlos. We had the BEST time! We visited the Selaron Steps and heard the inside story of this unique artist. Then we visited Tijuca National Park to see the beautiful waterfalls, followed by a visit to Praia Pepino Beach to watch the hang gliders descend and land right in front of us on the beach! We did a ride past Ipanema and Copa Cabana beach, and then went to Santa Theresa village for lunch and a bit of shopping! Definitely recommend lunch at Sao Joaquim with the wonderful samba guitarist. Isaac is fabulous, and Carlos is fun, this tour is not to be missed!
A wonderful overview of Rio without the main tourist sites which were thronged with visitors. Rodrigues was excellent driver. Safe, coureous, and well informed. We saw hidden sites and thoroughly recommend both the tour and our guide.
Had a wonderful and very full day with our guide Beth who was brilliant. I’ll fir ‘second day’ in Rio
We booked our tour with Viatour and were very lucky to have Beth Banho as our excellent guide for the whole day. Excellent experiences of the forest, the views, the city and Carnaval. She even got some toucans, monkeys and marmosets to turn up. Thank you Beth xx
A++ experience. Our guide Fernando was easy to locate and we had a full day of seeing "hidden gems" of Rio. He was very knowledgeable and courteous. It was a cloudy, drizzley day - but we made the best of it. We customized the agenda as we went along, adding this and that. We had lunch at a great "locals" place where the authentic cuisine was not "just another brazilian steakhouse". The Maze was very interesting and unique. Highly recommend this trip.
Very good custom made experience. We wanted to change itenary and that was no problem. Nice guide and driver, new car and they made it a great day for us
We had a fantastic day with Gustavo (tour guide) and Brian (driver). We went to numerous locations - the urban forest, Casa Cave - amazing selection of unique coffee roasts, the Santa Theresa area - had a superb lunch at SAO JOAQUIM. The absolute highlight was “the safest favella” in Rio - Tavares Bastos. This favella is situated next to the Special Police force . Within the favella we visited “The Maze”. This building has multiple levels with many unique tile mosaics. Definitely take the guided tour ( very small entrance fee). The daughter of the guy who began the tile mosaics gave us the tour and the history of all the art. It was a very special visit. Throughout our day, Gustavo took us to all the best “hidden spots”, he is an excellent guide. Brian was amazing too. He was always there to pick us up once Gustavo had guided us around. This was one of the BEST Viator tours we have taken.
Beth was a fantastic driver and guide and also photographer as she showed us the sights of Rio and met all our needs and even found ways to lessen the walking due to mobility issues.
