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.
What and Where Is the Pantanal, and Why It Beats the Amazon for Wildlife
The largest tropical wetland on earth, 140,000 square kilometres in western Brazil, of which only 1.3 percent is the UNESCO site. Where it is, why the flood cycle makes the wildlife visible, and how it differs from the Amazon.
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Amazon River Cruises: Three Different Things With One Name
Ocean liners docking at Manaus, luxury expedition ships that almost all sail in Peru, and small Brazilian riverboats. One phrase, three unrelated trips, and the difference costs people a holiday.
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All-Inclusive Resorts in Brazil: What Actually Exists
They exist, about two dozen of them, on the beaches of Bahia and Alagoas. What does not exist is the Caribbean version where the resort is the whole holiday. Why Brazilian all-inclusive is built for a different guest, and what to do instead.
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Fernando de Noronha: The Island Brazil Rations
An archipelago 350 kilometres out in the Atlantic where seventy percent is a marine national park, visitor numbers are capped and two separate fees apply. How to get there, what it costs, when to go and how many days it deserves.
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Nobres: The Clear Water on the Other Side of the Pantanal
Everybody who wants clear water in Brazil is sent to Bonito, which pairs with the southern Pantanal. If your Pantanal is the northern one, there is a second answer a road transfer from Cuiabá, and almost nobody mentions it.
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The Rota das Emoções: How to Get From the Lençóis to Jericoacoara
On a map they look a few hundred kilometres apart with nothing but coast between. There is no road that does it. What there is instead is a week of speedboat, 4x4, river ferry and buggy, and that week has a name.
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Whale Watching in Brazil: Two Coasts, Two Seasons
Humpbacks off Bahia from July to October, southern right whales off Santa Catarina from July to November. Both fall in the months written off as the Brazilian winter, and we only run one of them.
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A car-free sandy main street an hour north of Salvador, the flagship centre of Brazil’s sea turtle programme, tide pools and a 16th century castle ruin. Why Praia do Forte belongs at the end of a route rather than the start.
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Ecotourism in Brazil: The Mechanisms, Not the Word
Ecotourism is a word with no definition and no enforcement behind it. So instead of claiming it, here are the visitor caps, conservation charges, protected areas and community arrangements we actually operate inside, and the flight nobody wants to talk about.
Read article Pantanal Wildlife Beyond the Jaguar
The Pantanal is sold as a jaguar lottery, which is a strange way to sell the best wildlife density in the Americas. The jaguar is the one animal you might not see. Capybaras, giant otters, caimans by the hundred and the jabiru stork, you will.
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Surfing in Brazil: The Island It All Revolves Around
We are not a surf company and will not pretend to be. What we know is where surfing sits inside a Brazil trip: an island of 42 beaches with a wild surf south, a calm sociable north, and a way to keep a mixed group together.
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Where to Stay in Rio de Janeiro, and Why the Neighbourhood Decides the Trip
Choosing a neighbourhood in Rio looks like a taste question and is mostly a logistics one. Copacabana, Ipanema or Leblon, why we talk people out of Santa Teresa, and what we book without naming the hotels.
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