Rio Carnival
Rio de Janeiro , Southeastern Region, Brazil
|The world’s biggest party – a stadium parade with fabulous floats, music and sequinned samba dancers, and dozens of street parties and balls.
Best for ages: 13+ | £10 | 5 days
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Rio de Janeiro , Southeastern Region, Brazil
|The world’s biggest party – a stadium parade with fabulous floats, music and sequinned samba dancers, and dozens of street parties and balls.
Best for ages: 13+ | £10 | 5 days
Southeastern Region, Brazil
Heaven for healthy hedonists – hang glide, surf or hike by day, relax on the beach and party all night. Then, of course, there’s that carnival…
Amazon, Peru
Earth’s largest and most spectacular tropical wilderness is a landscape of huge waterfalls tumbling off table-top mountains, vast, coloured rivers, and fragrant cloud forests. All filled with astonishing, endemic wildlife.
Iguazu Falls, Brazil
Two National Parks – one in Brazil, one in Argentina – created to protect an astonishing 3km-wide waterfalls in a vast area of protected rainforest. One of the world’s great natural wonders.
Rio de Janeiro , Southeastern Region, Brazil
|This iconic, art deco beauty, the symbol of South America, watches out over Rio from high on Corcovado Mountain. The panoramic views from the statue’s feet are dazzling.
Best for ages: 18+ | Free
Iguazu National Park, Argentina
|Recently voted one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World, these magnificent 3km-wide falls see 46 million litres of water cascade over an 80m drop every second. Experience them by walkway, bike, boat and helicopter.
Best for ages: 4+ | Free
Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Region, Brazil
|Rock climb and/or abseil Rio’s most famous landmark, with spectacular bays, beaches and mountains as a backdrop.
Best for ages: 13+ | £35 | 5 hours
Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Region, Brazil
|Rio’s most famous mountain crouches like a sphinx over a perfect half-moon bay. Stunning views of the Redeemer, Copacabana Beach and central Rio. Unmissable.
Best for ages: 4+ | Free
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Region, Brazil
|Founded in 1947, South America’s greatest museum features a collection of over 10,000 pieces from across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. It’s the largest collection of European Art in the Southern hemisphere, including works bv Picasso, Rembrandt and Van Goh. It’s all housed in one of the city’s most iconic buildings, an architectural stand-out designed by Lina Bo Bardi in 1968.
Best for ages: 13+ | £6
Iguazu Falls National Park, Argentina
|This popular tour offers total immersion in the waterfalls combined with an electric jeep ride and a walk in the forest. You won’t see much wildlife, but getting this close to the falls is a thrill.
Best for ages: 12+ | £50 | 90-120 mins