Brazil Destinations, Privately Guided

Overview

Sugarloaf at golden hour, hidden Santa Teresa ateliers and a beach day with no schedule. Rio de Janeiro with a private host who knows the city beyond the postcards.

Overview

The best place on Earth to see jaguars in the wild, private boats, expert trackers and a fazenda lodge under enormous skies.

Overview

The half of the wetland where you sleep on a working cattle ranch, ride out at dawn and watch giant otters instead of queueing for a jaguar. Reached from Campo Grande, and the natural partner to Bonito two and a half hours down the road.

Overview

An otherworldly desert of wind-sculpted dunes cradling thousands of freshwater lagoons, best in the rainy-season window, privately timed.

Overview

An intimate river journey on the Rio Negro, a traditional riverboat, air-conditioned suites and a private naturalist who takes you where the forest is still wild and untouched.

Overview

Cobblestoned colonial streets, the historic Gold Trail into the Atlantic forest and a private boat day among the emerald islands of the Costa Verde, the perfect tranquil stop between São Paulo and Rio.

Overview

Brazil's biggest city and its main international gateway, a smart, money-saving start or end to your trip, with private English- or German-speaking guides, half- and full-day city tours, coastal day trips and a food scene like nowhere else in the country.

Overview

One of the great natural wonders of the planet, 275 waterfalls thundering across nearly three kilometres of rainforest. Both sides of the falls, a soaking boat ride under the cataracts, a helicopter over the Devil's Throat, and the point where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay all meet, privately guided.

Overview

A car-free island of Atlantic rainforest, more than a hundred beaches and water in every shade of green and blue. Reached by speedboat from the Costa Verde, best enjoyed over two or three unhurried nights, and a natural pairing with colonial Paraty and Rio de Janeiro.

Overview

Brazil's first capital and the beating heart of Afro-Brazilian culture. Two to three privately guided days: the UNESCO Pelourinho and its museums, a Bahian food tour, an authentic capoeira taster, day trips into the Recôncavo and to Itaparica, and a beach finish at Praia do Forte.

Overview

A laid-back former fishing village on Bahia's Coconut Coast, home to the famous Tamar sea-turtle project, wonderful pousadas steps from the sand, and calm palm-fringed beaches, the perfect place to round off a Brazil trip before flying home.

Overview

Bahia's trekking country, inland from Salvador: flat-topped mountains, one of Brazil's tallest waterfalls, and caves where the sunlight drops in as a single beam for half the year. Two to three days of walking with a private guide, from easy river pools to genuinely demanding trails, and a comfortable pousada in Lençóis to come back to.

Overview

The gold-rush highlands of southeast Brazil: the country's finest baroque towns, Aleijadinho's masterpieces, the world-class art of Inhotim and Brazil's most-loved cuisine, Comida Mineira. Three to four privately guided days based in colonial Ouro Preto and the capital Belo Horizonte, with day trips to Mariana, Congonhas and Inhotim.

Overview

Brazil's freshwater snorkelling capital, two and a half hours by road from the southern Pantanal. Two to three privately guided days drifting down spring-fed rivers with fish at arm's length, snorkelling or diving a flooded cave, and swimming under waterfalls. It is the natural second half of a Pantanal trip, and we drive you across.

Overview

A volcanic archipelago 350 kilometres out in the Atlantic, where seven tenths of the land and the sea around it are a national marine park, visitor numbers are capped, and Baía do Sancho has been voted the best beach in the world more often than any other stretch of sand in Brazil.