Brazil Complete Guide 2026: Amazon, Pantanal, Rio, Iguazu Falls and the Northeast Coast
Browse more guides: Brazil travel | South America destinations Brazil Complete Guide 2026: Amazon, Pantanal, Rio, Iguazu Falls and the Northeast Coast TL;DR Brazil is not a country you visit. It is a continent you sample. Eight and a half million square kilometres of rainforest, wetland, savanna, sand dune, coral reef, colonial city and modernist capital, stitched together by 215 million people who speak Portuguese and treat strangers like distant cousins. I have spent eleven weeks across three visits between 2023 and early 2026, and I still feel like I have only scratched the surface. The country is divided into five official regions, and each one feels like a different nation. The Amazon North has steaming river basins and indigenous communities. The Northeast has Afro-Brazilian Salvador and turquoise beaches that look photoshopped. The Centre-West holds the Pantanal wetland and modernist Brasília. The Southeast is the postcard with Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais. Th...