Luxury Vacations in Brazil

Whether swinging hips furiously to the pounding rhythms of samba or drifting dreamily to sultry bossa nova, there’s a tempo to match all moods in Brazil, South America’s liveliest country.

Paraded against a backdrop of monolithic mountains and endless beach, Rio Carnival, typically falling in late February, is a spectacle – but the party continues here for 365 days a year. Funded by trade in gold and cachaça, elegant 16th-century buildings sparkle in coastal towns like Paraty and Ouro Preto. Further north, in Salvador, Afro-Brazilian heritage is celebrated through tongue-tingling street food and balletic capoeira displays. In a land dominated by the lungs of our planet, every natural attraction is a breath of fresh air. Cruise along the mighty Amazon, where indigenous tribes thrive on nature’s bounty; feel the power of thundering water charging from Iguazu Falls; or venture deep into the Pantanal wetlands where habituated jaguars can be seen.