Stories & advice from Brazil
Written by us, living in Brazil, seasonal tips, destination know-how and the small details that make a private journey exceptional.
Brazilian Food: What to Eat Where, Region by Region
Brazilian food is not one cuisine. Moqueca and acarajé in Bahia, cheese in Minas Gerais, churrasco in the south, feijoada in Rio, river fish in the Amazon, and what a real caipirinha is by law.
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Four Weeks in Brazil: Three Routes, the Right Months and What It Costs
A month is enough for the Amazon, the Pantanal, the dunes and the coast in one trip. Three tested routes, why July to September is the window, how many flights make sense, and what each region costs.
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New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro: How to Plan Réveillon on Copacabana
About 2.5 million people and twelve minutes of fireworks on Copacabana. Why hotels sell New Year as a week long package, where to stay when cars cannot reach the beach, and what it really costs.
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Brazil Wildlife: Which Animal, Where, and in Which Month
Where to see jaguars, pink river dolphins, humpback whales, spinner dolphins and toucans in Brazil, which month each one needs, and what a wildlife trip costs.
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Florianópolis Beaches: Which of the 42 Is Yours
From people who live on the island: which Florianópolis beach for a hike, a flat sea, surf, space or children, when the water is warm enough, and how long to stay.
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Staying Connected in Brazil: Get the eSIM Before You Fly
Why buying a SIM card in Brazil is hard without a CPF, why we tell every guest to get an eSIM before flying, and the places where no phone plan will help.
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Money in Brazil: the Card Is the Default, the Cash Is the Backup
How much cash you actually need in Brazil, which card to bring, why changing money at home is the expensive way, and what tipping looks like when it is already on the bill.
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The Pantanal and Bonito: Two and a Half Hours Apart
The best wildlife density in the Americas and the clearest fresh water in Brazil sit two and a half hours apart by road, out of one airport. How many days each half needs, in which order, and what the pair costs.
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A Pantanal Fazenda Is a Farm With Guests, Not a Lodge
A working cattle ranch that takes a handful of guests because the wetland brought them. What a day on a southern Pantanal fazenda actually looks like, whether you need to ride, and the line in the small print about the guiding.
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Solo Travel in Brazil: What It Costs and Where It Works
Every solo guide to Brazil answers whether it is dangerous. None of them answer what a single room does to your invoice, or whether a trip runs when there is one of you. Both have numbers.
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Is the Amazon Rainforest Worth Visiting? It Depends What You Came For
Half the internet calls the Amazon the trip of their life, the other half saw nothing but green. Both are right, and the difference is what they came for.
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The Best Places to Visit in Brazil, Sorted by First Trip or Second
Every list ranks Brazil by beauty, which is useless when the places are three hour flights apart. Sorted instead by what belongs on a first trip: Rio, Iguaçu, one wild place, and somewhere to stop.
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