The Northeast (Bahia & the coast)4 places
- Chapada DiamantinaAn old diamond-mining highland in the Bahian interior, now a national park of flat-topped ranges cut by canyons…
- Salvador & BahiaThe first capital of colonial Brazil and the heart of its Afro-Brazilian soul, a city of gilded churches and pastel…
- Fernando de NoronhaA remote volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic, often crowned Brazil's most beautiful island, where jagged peaks rise…
- Lençóis MaranhensesA vast field of pristine white sand dunes that looks like a desert but isn't, because after the rains, thousands of…
The Southeast (Rio & São Paulo)3 places
- Ouro Preto & TiradentesThe richest gold town of the 18th-century Americas, left almost intact when the gold ran out: steep cobbled streets…
- Rio de JaneiroA city wedged spectacularly between jungle mountains and the sea, where a giant Christ spreads his arms over the bay…
- ParatyA whitewashed colonial port between the mountains and a bay full of islands, with streets of enormous uneven cobbles…
The Centre-West (the Pantanal & Brasília)2 places
- BonitoA town in Brazil's interior where the rivers run so clear you snorkel down them as if flying, drifting over white sand…
- The PantanalThe world's largest tropical wetland, a vast seasonally-flooded plain teeming with more visible wildlife than the…
The North (the Amazon)1 place
- The Amazon & ManausThe gateway to the greatest rainforest and river on Earth, an improbable jungle city with a grand opera house left from…
The South (Iguaçu & the gaucho country)1 place
- Iguaçu FallsA wall of water nearly three kilometres wide where hundreds of waterfalls thunder over the jungle in clouds of spray…