Brazil

Discovering Bahia, Brazil

• 2 Hotels
• 4 Restaurants
• 8 Activities

The city of Salvador juts out into the bay of all Saints, but the baia is just preliminary, for Salvador stretches clear across the Atlantic into the heart of Yoruba culture, into modern-day Nigeri

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Escape to Trancoso, Brazil

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• 1 Activity

In Brazil, near a village green lined with brightly painted cottages, find coconut juice and caipirinhas, daily sun and nightly capoeira, and everyone’s-a-fisherman fashion.

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Exploring Morro de São Paulo, Bahia, Brazil

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• 1 Restaurant

A two-hour boat ride south from the Bahian capital of Salvador makes Morro de São Paulo, the main village on the 232-square-mile Ilha de Tinharé, an easy weekend jaunt for Salvadorans. Even so, unt

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Exploring the Marine Life of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• 1 Restaurant

There are more spinner dolphins and sea turtles than people on Fernando de Noronha—ibama (the Brazilian Environmental Protection Agency) limits visitors to this mountainous archipelago and national

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Mini Trip Guide to the Amazon River's Biggest City: Manaus, Brazil

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• 2 Restaurants
• 3 Activities

Starting with its famous 19th-century opera house—in the Brazilian rain forest—Manaus is a study in contrasts, an electronics mecca on the Amazon. Few bazaars compare with the fish market in the fr

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Partying in São Paulo

• 3 Hotels
• 3 Restaurants
• 5 Activities

This South American megalopolis gets more glamorous by the minute—and more accessible. Hop on a nine-hour overnight American flight and escape to summer (literally). Now is when the natives, who fa

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Quick Summer Getaway Guide to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• 2 Restaurants

Brazil's most famous city is at once a big and bustling metropolis (population 6 million) and a romantic waterfront paradise, with 25 powdery beaches. Although it's technically winter in July, Rio'

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Stylish São Paulo

• 3 Hotels
• 10 Restaurants
• 22 Activities

In São Paulo—fast-paced, noisy, and popping with creativity—fashion is hot, food makes headlines, and art charges into new territory. More

Trip Guide to Jericoacoara, Ceará, Brazil

• 1 Hotel
• 2 Restaurants

Blink, and Jericoacoara—a four-hour drive west from the northeastern city of Fortaleza—could be mistaken for a Saharan desertscape. But the first glimpse of the cerulean waters beyond the Pôr do So

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Trip Guide to the Rio Grande of the North: Raia da Pipa, Brazil

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• 1 Restaurant

In the seventies, surfers began migrating northeast from Rio and eventually discovered this primitive fishing village one hour south of Natal. Once roads were completed, in 1994, and widespread pho

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