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A flexible private introduction to Rio, built entirely around your interests.
A fully customized private sightseeing tour where you and your local guide decide which sights to prioritize, from Copacabana and Ipanema to Santa Teresa and the historic center.
Travelling by private vehicle makes getting around seamless. Choose to stop at major landmarks including Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, and the Selarón Steps (admission tickets at your own expense), or explore the historic city center, Tijuca Forest, or bohemian Santa Teresa instead.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Pickup from your Rio de Janeiro hotel.
Drive along Rio's most famous beachfronts, framed by the Dois Irmãos peaks.
Add Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf, or the historic center based on your own priorities.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A fully customized private sightseeing tour where you and your local guide decide which sights to prioritize, from Copacabana and Ipanema to Santa Teresa and the historic center. Travelling by private vehicle makes getting around seamless. Choose to stop at major landmarks including Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain, and the Selarón Steps (admission tickets at your own expense), or explore the historic city center, Tijuca Forest, or bohemian Santa Teresa instead.
At the western end of Ipanema and Leblon, the twin granite peaks of Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers) rise about 533 meters above the coastline — taller than Sugarloaf's 396 meters, though not as tall as Corcovado's roughly 700. Along with the curve of Copacabana and Ipanema beaches below, they're part of the same granite-and-gneiss landscape that gives Rio's south zone its distinctive shape.
If your guide builds in time for Rio's historic center, you're looking at ground the city has occupied since March 1, 1565, when Portuguese forces under Estácio de Sá founded São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro as a fortified outpost against French traders. Centro still holds landmarks spanning that history, from colonial-era churches to the early-20th-century Municipal Theatre.
Tijuca Forest, one option for travelers who want to see a different side of Rio, is often described as the world's largest urban forest — some 32 square kilometers of Atlantic rainforest that was almost entirely cleared for sugar and coffee farming before Major Manuel Gomes Archer led a replanting effort starting in 1862, at Emperor Pedro II's direction, after the farming had begun affecting the city's water supply. It became a national park in 1961.
Santa Teresa, Rio's hillside bohemian quarter since the late 19th century, is still connected to downtown by its historic bonde tram — one of the oldest tramway systems in South America, electrified in 1896 — and is often nicknamed the city's Montmartre for its long history of resident artists and studios.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
