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Tours Gallery Reviews About GET A QUOTE Toggle Menu RIO DE JANEIRO TOUR GUIDE – PRIVATE GUIDED TOURS OF RIO THE Rio de Janeiro private tour guide: experienced, professional and fluent in English. Join the thousands of satisfied visitors who had me as their Rio de Janeiro private guide.Madson was the first one we read about in our search and we booked without even looking into anyone else. We made an excellent decision! Our five hour tour was packed with interesting information about Rio and Brazil and Madson’s outgoing personality made us feel that we were taking the tour with someone we knew.” Priscilla J., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here’s what you might experience by hiring me as your private guide in Rio de Janeiro Imagine you wake up in your hotel room in Rio de Janeiro and think to yourself, I can’t believe I’m in Brazil!”. Then, you go have a delicious breakfast and then proceed to the lobby to meet your tour guide. He arrives right on time, smiles at you and gives you a warm ‘Welcome to Rio’. Your Rio de Janeiro private tour is about to start and you feel reassured that you are in good hands. Your tour guide breaks the ice and walks you to his minivan. You get in and realize that his vehicle features what was stated on his website — comfortable, clean, air-conditioned, and with plenty of room for your legs. Your private guide heads straight to Corcovado. He knows you can hardly wait to see Christ the Redeemer statue up close and personal as well as the breath-taking vistas of Rio de Janeiro . On the way, your tour guide slows down and even stops wherever there is an interesting site for you to take a picture of. By the way, on a half-day guided tour you can easily take 50 photos of Rio de Janeiro. Charge your phone’s batteries! You then visit other sites according to the program as well as some hidden treasures that only a local tour guide who has guided 8,000+ visitors in Rio de Janeiro can take you to. Time flies and at the end of your Rio private tour your guide drops you off back at your hotel. You feel great, you had a wonderful day , you laughed, learned, and had a great time as a vacationer must do. Yes, your day was fascinating mainly because you wisely decided to hire a reputable, experienced, English-speaking tour guide in Rio de Janeiro ! What can I do for you as your private tour guide in Rio de Janeiro? I will prioritize your safety above all and by all means; I will organize the tour itinerary to avoid time-consuming hassles, queues, and traffic; I will offer you a seriously entertaining” tour of Rio — enjoyably informative but never pedantic.Third trip to Rio and the first with my wife. Madson customized each visit based on our interests and I always feel like a local. We’ve been fortunate to visit 70 countries and Brazil is at the top, because of his company. His personality distinguishes him from other guides. We’re looking forward to returning for Carnival 2014!” Jerry Davanon, Scottsdale, AZ . 8,000+ visitors have embarked on a private tour of Rio de Janeiro with me This is just one of thousands of Rio de Janeiro private tours… GALLERY Discover Rio de Janeiro on a Memorable Private Guided Tour! HALF-DAY 1 Christ the Redeemer Statue Guided Tour (Corcovado) Hassle-free Christ the Redeemer tour. Christ Statue is Rio’s most visited monument, situated at 710 meters (2,329 feet) above sea level on the top of Corcovado mountain. From there one can have a 360-degree view of the city. This famous tourist attractions is one of the 7 new wonders of the world. Sugar Loaf Mountain Guided Tour Visit with your top-rated private tour guide Rio’s second most visited monument: Sugar Loaf . It is a 396-meter (1,299 feet) high one-block stone from where you can have a panoramic view over Copacabana, Botafogo and Flamengo beaches besides downtown, Rio-Niteroi bridge, Guanabara Bay, and more. HALF-DAY 2 Rio de Janeiro Downtown Guided Tour Guided tour of Rio de Janeiro Downtown. It includes a short stroll in Centro (downtown) and a drive in Lapa neighborhood (including its arches), a stop at Colombo Café (established in 1894!); a comprehensive visit to Sélaron steps, a quick visit to Rio’s modern cathedral (a church different from all the others you have seen), and a few other attractions along the way. HALF-DAY 3 My Rio de Janeiro” Guided Tour This is my favorite tour. It’s a selection of neighborhoods, streets, sidewalks, squares, beaches, overlooks, and hidden spots. Some of these are not even known by the locals in the know! I strongly recommend this private tour IF you are interested in seeing sites other than the popular Rio de Janeiro tourist attractions . MORE INFO ON TOURS 10 reasons to hire me as your Rio de Janeiro tour guide 1. Experience: I am a proud tour guide since 2004. I took a tour guide course in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro, and since then I have been working in the field. At some point in time, I have specialized in private city tours, covering the major attractions as well as the lesser-known sites. I have guided more than eight thousands visitors (!), from forty-five nationalities and from all walks of life. If you think a bit about it, those are huge numbers considering that private tours have on average between two and four people. I have guided solo travelers (male and female), couples, families, groups of friends, co-workers. My tour guide service past clientele includes tourists on vacation in Rio de Janeiro as well as business people who managed to make space in their calendar to visit at least the two major attractions: Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugar Loaf. Many of those visitors had already taken private guided tours in other cities and knew the benefits of them, but some had decided to take their very first private tour in their lives in Rio de Janeiro, and apparently, they did not regret it. 2. Knowledge: I know Rio de Janeiro tourist attractions inside out. On my records as a private tour guide in Rio de Janeiro , all my figures are either in the thousands or in the hundreds. In other words, I have guided people thousands of times to some attractions, and hundreds of times to others. The overwhelming majority of these visitors have taken my very own private guided tours. Christ the Redeemer statue? I have guided visitors there thousands of times! Sugar Loaf Mountain? I have guided tourists there thousands of time! Sélaron steps? I have guided foreign visitors there hundreds of times (maybe thousands). Downtown Rio? Thousands of times! Maracana stadium? Hundreds of times! Favelas? Hundreds of times (when I used to do it). Panoramic beach tour? Hundreds of time. Guiding visitors to other tourist and non-tourist sites? Many dozens or hundreds of times! With all modesty aside, I am an expert in guiding visitors on private tours to a number of attractions in Rio de Janeiro. That is to say, I am a professional private tour guide . I have guided, visited and seen these attractions in all conditions imaginable: crowded, empty, hot as hell, on cold days, raining cats and dogs, in a quick way, slowly, on foot, by car, towed (!), flying over, during major strikes and protests, on holidays, on weekdays, on weekends, early, late, during the day, at night, you name it! No wonder I have perfected my tours to a standard of excellence that I am proud of today. I know most Rio de Janeiro attractions worth visiting as the palm of my hand. I know the when’s and the how’s by heart. 3. Professionalism: I take my job as a private tour guide very seriously. I am a professional private tour guide specialized in Rio de Janeiro . That’s my job. I was born to be a tour guide. Quality guiding services (more specifically, guided private tours) is what I offer to visitors who include Rio on their trip to Brazil. Guiding is NOT something I do here and there, from time to time, as a side job. On the contrary, I am a dedicated private tour guide always aiming at providing a high standard of service. I take my duties very seriously and I keep...