Rio de Janeiro · November 12–17, 2026
Most people don’t need another vacation—they need an experience that reminds them how big the world is, how meaningful genuine connection can be, and who they’re capable of becoming.
Choose 5 or 9 nights Reserve from $295 Payment plans available
What is happening
This is your invitation to experience yourself—and the wider world—differently.
Beyond Brazil's electric nights, cinematic views, scenic beaches, and celebrated food, there is a depth no checklist can capture: neighborhoods with their own pulse, histories carried through music, local perspectives that change how a place feels, and conversations that stay with you after you leave.
Sofound creates the structure, context, and community to help you carry that depth into whatever you are building at home—a career, a business, or a new chapter. Return with clearer perspective, renewed energy, and more room to move toward what comes next.
Who all is going
Come solo or with friends. This experience is designed to help the group connect naturally.
Not a silent retreat or a party vacation. It is a social, active, culturally rooted group journey with room for both celebration and reflection.
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01 · Rio Core · 5 nights
From Ipanema Beach to Vidigal, from Tijuca Forest to the club, Rio inspires movement. We’ll explore its landmarks, experience its contrasts, and uncover the layers that bring the city to life.
02 · Optional extension · 4 nights
Salvador changes the rhythm. The days become slower, more relational, and more personal—less about reaching the next landmark and more about who opens the door when you arrive.
Core Itinerary · Days 1–5
Every day is intentionally shaped—from Rio’s first golden hour through the formal farewell.
Full day-by-day details, meeting points, and final timing are shared with confirmed travelers.
A soft landing: settle into the Sofound House, meet the group, and share Rio’s first golden hour.
Move from mountain air to coast, culture, and a night that stays open.
Choose your pace in the morning, then enter Rio’s forest and landmark skyline.
Trade the city for an overnight coastal chapter in Arraial do Cabo.
Return slowly, reclaim free time, and close the core journey together.
Extended Itinerary · Days 6–9
Where Rio moves fast, Salvador moves close — four nights to slow all the way down, rooted in Afro-Brazilian heritage, coastline, and community.
Continuing travelers fly from Rio to Salvador, where the pace slows and the group starts to feel just as communal and more like family. Settle in with a massage, neghborly walk, and quaint dinner to recalibrate, connect with the people beside you, and arrive ready to meet Salvador on its own terms.
Sail into open water for swimming, music, fresh seafood, and an intentionally unstructured day together. There is no agenda to perform here—just space for the conversations, ease, and shared joy that make a group of travelers start to feel like a real network.
Step into Salvador through the people shaping its future: local creative and entrepreneurial hosts, a youth football community, and a home-hosted meal. Listen, exchange perspective, and meet the city not as a backdrop, but through the relationships, work, culture, and ambition that keep it moving.
The journey closes in Salvador—often described as the largest Black city outside Africa—on Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day. Experience the city alive with music, memory, ceremony, and public celebration as November 20 brings Salvador’s African heritage into the present.
November 20 · Black Consciousness DayClose the journey inside a living celebration of history, identity, and freedom.
Final experiences, timing, and local access may adapt to local conditions, partner availability, and confirmed programming.
What’s included
Your package covers the arranged Rio experience. Bring your passport, and plan separately for flights, free-time spending, and anything not named here.
Shared accommodation in the Sofound Mansion, plus one overnight stay in Arraial do Cabo.
A private-chef brunch and selected group meals thoughtfully built into the itinerary.
Airport transfers, official itinerary transportation, Arraial do Cabo transfers, and activity transfers.
Little Africa, Tijuca Forest, Christ the Redeemer, Dois Irmãos, Arraial do Cabo, and other planned activities.
Pre-trip preparation, arrival guidance, daily Gathers, roommate coordination, and on-the-ground support.
A playful Sofound tradition for candid stories, unexpected questions, and unforgettable group moments.
A guided travel journal with space for private writing, prompts, and documenting the journey.
A thoughtful wellness box, shower steamer, pillow mist, and other restorative details throughout the journey.
Where is home
More than a place to sleep. It is where the group finds its rhythm—over first coffee, between plans, and back together again after the city.
What the house makes possible
Choose your journey
Your deposit is part of the total—not an extra fee. Rio Core is the complete trip. Choose the Complete Journey only if you want the smaller, slower continuation in Bahia.
Rio Core · 5 nights
The complete five-night Sofound experience: coastline, nature, locally rooted culture, shared meals, optional nightlife, reflection, and an overnight escape to Arraial do Cabo.
November 12–17, 2026
$295 nonrefundable deposit today + 4 × $425
$1,700 remaining balance · deposit by card, scheduled installments by ACH after separate authorization
Complete Journey · 9 nights
Everything in Rio Core, followed by four additional nights in Salvador, an included Rio-to-Salvador flight, one included massage, and a more intimate continuation.
November 12–21, 2026
$495 nonrefundable deposit today + 5 × $500
$2,500 remaining balance · deposit by card, scheduled installments by ACH after separate authorization
Deposits are applied toward the trip total. Shared accommodation is included. Flights to and from Brazil are not.
Who is the host?
Including 14 months backpacking across 17 African countries without planes.
A note from Calid
The landscapes mattered. The freedom mattered. But the most fulfilling moments usually came down to people and access: the invitation Calid could not have booked, the stranger who became a guide, the meal that became a lesson, and the version of himself he met far from routine.
Calid created Sofound to preserve the freedom of independent travel while making room for what is often harder to find alone: a community that has your back, the confidence to step into what once felt out of reach, cultural access shaped by local people, room to exhale, and space to reflect. This Brazil journey brings that idea to life through locally led experiences, shared adventure, and thoughtful support—with Calid present from preparation through return.
CalidFounder and your host, Sofound Travel Group
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The next chapter
Reserve your Brazil journey and enter the growing Sofound traveler network—relationships, cultural perspective, and doors that keep opening long after everyone returns home.
The return flight closes the itinerary—not the community.
November 12–17
November 12–21
