3 Self-Guided Tours in Brazil Worth Booking

1.Downtown São Paulo’s Epic History: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 5 reviews · 35 to 50 minutes (approx.) · from $5Our pick

Explore São Paulo’s historic center by GPS-guided audio, from Praça da Sé to Mercado Municipal, at your own pace for $5.99.

“Worth a download. Make sure you go in the day. Lots of police on every corner but still hundred of homeless people asking for money. We didn’t feel unsafe but the city is dirty, derelict and totally covered in graffiti. Part of the tour took us through the homeless feeding frenzy by a charity at around 10am on a Sunday (and then back through it! So we avoided it again and took a detour). Hundred and hundreds of people in queues, eating hotdogs (and the litter to go with it). But the market was good and the tacky shopping street was worth a little mooch around.”

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2.Self-Guided Audio Tour-Story of Bossanova: Rhythm and soul of Rio

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · 40 minutes (approx.) · from $6Top rated

Walk Rio’s Ipanema shore through bossa nova history, Tom Jobim, Garota de Ipanema, beach views, and offline audio for $6.72.

“Es un paraiso, la cultura, sus bailes, sus playas, nos quedamos cortos al conocer todo lo que nos ofrece este tours, la historia de bossanova, Santa Teresa y Rio imperial, tres magnificos lugares que nos llevan mas alla de la historia, este tour con Soundwalkrs lo ame y obvio lo compartiria con mas personas!”

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3.A Self-Guided Black History Audio Tour of Rio de Janeiro’s Little Africa

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2 reviews · 40 minutes to 1 hour (approx.) · from $11

Walk Rio’s Little Africa from Praça Mauá to Kobra’s murals with an offline audio tour covering slavery, Pedra do Sal, and the old port.

“This is a great audio tour. But may take longer than 40 min. We got drinks at Da Pedro and knew we wanted to come back for the nightlife.”

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