Favela Tours

[...] Favela Tour is an illuminating experience if you look for an insider point of view of Brazil. The tour [...]

[...] it, is catching on. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the townships of Johannesburg to the garbage dumps of Mexico, tourists are forsaking, at least for a while, beaches and museums for crowded, [...]

[...] in the slum wants to work, and everybody wants to make themselves better,” he said. Slum tourism, or “poorism,” as some call it, is catching on. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro [...]

[...] skirting open sewers and ducking to avoid exposed electrical wires as he toured the sprawling Dharavi slum, home to more than a million. He joined a cricket game and saw the small-scale industry, [...]

[...] ; “It just resonated with me immediately,” said Mr. Cronin, who was staying at a posh Taj Hotel in Mumbai where, he noted, a bottle of Champagne cost the equivalent of two years’ [...]

[...] they reveal their complex architecture, developing commerce and friendly people. Most Samba Schools participating in the Carnival parade come from favelas. The tour changes their reputation of areas [...]

[...] MICHAEL CRONIN’s job as a college admissions officer took him to India two or three times a year, so he had already seen the usual sites & [...]

[...] shaken when a man, “obviously drunk,” rifled through his pockets, but the two-and-a-half-hour tour changed his image of India. “Everybody in the slum wants to work, and everybody [...]

[...] Rio, within Rio city: the favela. There are close to 750 favelas in Rio. Mostly placed on former public areas on the hillsides, they are now home to 20% of Rio's population, however they remain a [...]

[...] many of the most infamous are located in Rio de Janeiro, there are favelas in almost every large Brazilian town. In Rio one in every four Cariocas (as the inhabitants are called) lives in a slum. A [...]