Terra & Tide
Brazil
Brazil is a continent's worth of landscape inside one country — Rio's beaches and hillside favelas, the Amazon rainforest stretching across the north, and the thundering waterfalls of Iguazu on the Argentine border. Most first trips center on Rio before branching out toward the natural sites.
The country rewards a mix of city and wilderness: a few days between Copacabana and Sugarloaf Mountain, then onward to the rainforest or the falls.
Highlights
- Ride the cable car up Sugarloaf Mountain for views over Rio
- Relax on the sand at Copacabana or Ipanema beach
- Feel the spray from the Iguazu Falls on the Brazil–Argentina border
- Take a boat trip into the Amazon rainforest from Manaus
- Wander the colorful colonial streets of Salvador's Pelourinho
