Brazil offers experiences for travelers with budgets large and small, there's horseback riding and wildlife watching, ascending rocky cliff tops to panoramic views, whale watching off the coast and snorkeling and crystal clear rivers and coastal reefs.

Festivals happen throughout the year and provide a window into Brazil's incredible diversity.

Some say to come around sunset for the best views, but in truth, it doesn't matter when you come.

You're unlikely to look at Rio in the same way.

From here, the landscape is pure, undulating green hills and golden beaches lapped by Blue Sea.

No matter the number of waterfalls you've checked off your bucket list, Iguazu Falls will stomp all over your idea of water trickling over the edge of a cliff.

Capital of Afro Brazil, Salvador is famous for capoeira candomble, colonial Portuguese architecture, er, African street food and one of the oldest lighthouses in the Americas, an easy day's journey from Rio.

This is one clean green island, a true nature lover's paradise.

It's jungle clad slopes and dozens of beaches air, some of the best preserved in all of Brazil, the 18th century streets of or a preto veer between one baroque masterpiece and the next you could admire the sculpted masterpieces of Alesia, Gino Discover, the African tribal king turned folk hero Chico High and gaze upon opulent gilded churches.

High season runs December through March, July through September Are good months to visit the Amazon or Pantanal.

Travel costs in Brazil can range from less than 200.

Hey, ice a day if you enjoy a dorm bed in juice bars to over 400 Hey, ice a day for a boutique hotel or upscale jungle lodge planes are useful for crossing Brazil's immense distances, while Busses provide extensive services throughout the country, Brazil is blessed with powdery white sand beaches, verdant rainforests and rhythm filled metropolis is its attractions extend from frozen in time colonial towns to otherworldly landscapes of red rock canyons, thundering waterfalls and coral fringed islands.