Brazil Local Travel Experts

Meet the local travel experts who create your personal, tailor-made trip to Brazil

Camila

I am based in the beautiful city of Cordoba in Argentina and have traveled my native country and neighboring countries extensively. In the last few years, traveling has allowed me to get to know different places and cultures, all with its customs and traditions. And now I'm excited to share my culture with the world. I love this job because there is always more to learn and discover about my own country and the surrounding countries, and the satisfaction of travellers when they come back from their trip and loved everything they saw and experienced - it's the best reward.

We are a specialist tour operator with our own operations in Argentina and Chile and partner offices in other South American countries, able to offer you multi-country trips throughout the Southern zone of the continent. With over 20 years of experience, we have established excellent relationships with hotels, excursion providers, drivers, and many more to offer you the best that South America has to offer. Take a winery tour in Mendoza, cross the Andes to Chile, hop on a ferry to Uruguay or witness the famous carnival in Brazil. With our tailor-made trips, you’re able to discover several countries at your own pace and according to your preferences.

Our tours are most suited to those looking to combine several countries in South America.

Eric

European by birth, I moved to Brazil decades ago and love living in fascinating Rio de Janeiro. Growing up in Belgium, speaking different languages came naturally to me and nowadays I communicate in six in total, even though Portuguese and English are my most common day-to-day languages.

I founded our tour operator in the early 2000s after working in a large hotel in Rio de Janeiro prior to that. Our team, including your local expert Viviane, is an international, multi-lingual eclectic group and we also have a great portfolio of guides in many different languages and of many different specialities: no matter if you’re looking for a historian explaining the European heritage in Brazil or an ornithologist to accompany you to the Amazon, we’ve got you covered. And of course, carnival in our home city Rio is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for any traveler!

Our tours are most suited to those looking to cover several cities or regions in Brazil, wanting to make the most out of their time.

Viviane

When people think of Brazil, it’s often soccer, carnival and Samba they think about. When I think of my beloved country, I think of a very diverse landscape from paradise beaches to untouched Amazon forest, I think of passionate people always ready for a talk and a dance and I think of the hospitality Brazilians show to travelers worldwide. My name is Viviane and I can’t wait to show you the best of my native country Brazil.

Our tour operator is based in Rio de Janeiro and we’re as multicultural as Brazil is too - we speak over 5 languages in the office, among them Portuguese, English and Dutch, and are constantly out to explore more of our beautiful country. We have a great portfolio of guides in many different languages and of many different specialities: no matter if you’re looking for a historian explaining the European heritage in Brazil or an ornithologist to accompany you to the Amazon, we’ve got you covered. And of course, carnival in our home city Rio is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for any traveler!

Our tours are most suited to those looking to cover several cities or regions in Brazil, wanting to make the most out of their time.

Reviews for tailor-made trips to Brazil

Brazil

3/1/2023

Hello Viviane It was the queen/kiing of vacations! I travel a lot and this was one of the best. Your organization of the event was excellent. We had enough time to organize our own outings, we went to RIO Scenarium as you suggested, went to the museum of tomorrow. Did the speed boat to the falls, went swimming with the dolphins, saw the alligator. We even saw a Macau. The hotels were amazing too. the hotel staff were very good. the roof top pool in Hilton was so lovely. The hotel and its location in Sao Paulo was good. The guides were pretty good. The internal flights worked so well. We had time to hire a taxi and see Brasília. Beautiful cities, beautiful country. No complaints. In fact we want to send you a bottle of wine. If you give me your personal email, I would like to send you some money so that you can enjoy a bottle of wine. Thank you so much.

2/5/2023

We spent two weeks in Argentina, visiting four different regions: Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, El Calafate, and Mendoza. Rough guides arranged all of our hotels, domestic flights, and local transportation, and helped us with a couple of excursions. We were 100% satisfied with the services they provided: the hotels were all very good; the local guides that met us at each airport were super friendly and helpful; and their WhatsApp service was really responsive - even helped us recover an item of clothing we left in a hotel in Buenos Aires. We will definitely use their services for future trips.

Argentina

12/27/2022

We had an excellent experience with Rough Guides! The absolute peace of mind to know there was someone at your fingertips 24-7 to help with any issues was fantastic! Our local contact even assisted us in navigating the system when I had to see a Dr. Every place we flew to, there was an English speaking driver to meet us at the airport, get us to our hotel and to our excursions. We will definitely use Rough Guides again, I would give them more than 5 stars if I could!

Epic trip to Peru

7/17/2022

The planning of the trip with the guidance of Maria José from Rough Guides was already very professional, fast and reliable - she really shaped the best possible itinerary with all our requests and wishes for the trip. Once started the trip went from good at lake Titicaca, to great in Cusco to epic at the peruanian Rainforest. I can only highly recommend to plan and execute your travels with rough guides - they know what they do and the service onsite was just fabulous!!! Many thanks to everybody involved!!!

4/19/2022

The trip was fantastic and I had a great time and captured some amazing photos. Thanks for your help putting this together.

1/29/2020

Enjoyed the trip and was very satisfied with the local guides that were used.