Brazil Travel Guide

Use this online Brazil travel guide to help plan your trip to this dynamic and diverse nation.

There are few countries as beautiful and vibrant as Brazil. Travel to the Amazon, and you will see virgin forest stretch unbroken for more than 2500 km in every direction. The table-top mountains of the interior are covered in medicinal plants and drained by mineral-rich rivers that tumble through gorges and rush over spectacular tiered waterfalls, up to 3 km wide. Thousands of miles of pristine beaches line its coast, some backed by dunes the size of deserts, others by forests of swaying palms. In the Pantanal, the world's biggest wetland, herons and egrets fill the air like butterflies. Tiny cobble and whitewash gold-mining towns contrast with the metropolises of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador and Recife, which offer the most exciting and surprising urban culture in Latin America.

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Brazil Travel Guide Highlights
Rio de Janeiro Rio is known to the locals as the 'City of Marvels'.	Pernambuco Carnival Carnival in Pernambuco is the most exuberant in Brazil.
Itatiaia National Park Itatiaia National Park offers superb birdwatching in the rainforest	Marajó Island As big as Denmark, Marajó Island is largely unexplored.
São Paulo Brazil's best music and nightlife make São Paulo the party capital.	The Amazon Homestays can be arranged with riverine communities in the Amazon.
Iguaçu Falls The Iguaçu Falls thunder off red cliffs in pristine, parrot-filled rainforest.	Chapada dos Veadeiros Quartz mountains and waterfalls in the Chapada dos Veadeiros.
Bahia Cariocas flock to the beaches of southern Bahia for their holidays.	The Pantanal The Pantanal is South America's prime wildlife viewing area.
The Abrolhos Archipelago The Abrolhos Archipelago attracts humpback whales in summer.	Mato Grosso Amazon The Mato Grosso to home to different bird species and hundreds of other species.