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Brazil is massive, so we broke down our favorite destinations into detailed, practical guides to help you start planning. Don't see the specific spot you're looking for? Just ask. Our expertise covers the whole country, and we can help you get exactly where you want to go.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
The Marvelous City, Privately
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Paraná, Brazil
Foz do Iguaçu
Two hundred and seventy-five waterfalls, in two countries.
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Bahia, Brazil
Salvador
Brazil's first capital, and its African heart.
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Amazonas, Brazil
The Amazon
One strange city on the river, and the forest behind it.
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Mato Grosso, Brazil
Pantanal
The one place on earth where you can plan to see a jaguar.
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Maranhão, Brazil
Lençóis Maranhenses
A field of white dunes that fills with rainwater, and then empties.
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Pernambuco, Brazil
Fernando de Noronha
Brazil's capped island: two taxes, few flights, and the clearest water in the country.
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Santa Catarina, Brazil
Florianópolis
One island, 42 beaches, two completely different lives.
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Ceará, Brazil
Jericoacoara
A village of sand streets inside a national park, where the trade wind is the whole point.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paraty
A colonial gold port the world stopped visiting.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ilha Grande
No cars, no roads. Trails, boats and a hundred beaches.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Búzios & Arraial do Cabo
Cold, clear water and a town built for dinner.
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São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo
The city almost everyone flies through, and a few days that change their minds.
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Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Bonito
Rivers so clear you snorkel down them, and a booking system that keeps them that way.
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Bahia, Brazil
Chapada Diamantina
Bahia’s hiking country: table mountains, cave water and the best trek in Brazil.
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Pernambuco, Brazil
Recife & Olinda
A colonial hill town, and the city it turned into.
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Pernambuco, Brazil
Porto de Galinhas
The pools appear at low tide, and only at low tide.
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Alagoas, Brazil
Maceió
Calm reef-protected water inside the city, and the best beach coast in Brazil either side of it.
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Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ouro Preto
The town the gold built, and the art it left behind.
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Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Pipa
A cliff-backed village in Rio Grande do Norte with resident dolphins in a bay you walk to at low tide.
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Bahia, Brazil
Porto Seguro & Trancoso
Where Brazil began, and the village people actually come for.
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Bahia, Brazil
Morro de São Paulo
No cars, four numbered beaches, and a boat ride from Salvador.
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Ceará, Brazil
Fortaleza
The gateway to Brazil’s northern beach coast, and a beach city worth stopping in.
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Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tiradentes & São João del-Rei
Two gold towns, thirteen kilometers apart, joined by a steam train.
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Bahia, Brazil
Praia do Forte
Sea Turtles & the Coconut Coast
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Pará, Brazil
Belém
The best Amazonian food in Brazil, at the mouth of the river.
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Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Natal
Brazil’s sunniest coastal city, with a wall of moving sand just outside it.
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Minas Gerais, Brazil
Belo Horizonte
Inhotim, Niemeyer’s Pampulha and the botecos of Minas, in one big modern city.
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Maranhão, Brazil
Chapada das Mesas
Table mountains, big river waterfalls and blue wells at the far southern end of Maranhão.
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Pará, Brazil
Alter do Chão
White river beaches on the clear Tapajós, there only when the water drops.
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Goiás, Brazil
Chapada dos Veadeiros
A high quartzite plateau of cerrado, canyons and waterfalls, a morning’s drive north of Brasília.
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Distrito Federal, Brazil
Brasília
Niemeyer’s capital on the central plateau: Congress, the Cathedral, the superquadras and the lake.
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Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Gramado & Canela
Two mountain towns in the far south, with a big waterfall, fondue, and a real winter.
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Rio Grande do Sul & Santa Catarina, Brazil
Aparados da Serra
The canyons of the southern escarpment, walked along the rim from Cambará do Sul and up the riverbeds from Praia Grande.
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