This comprehensive guide is the essential travelling companion for your trip to Brazil. It leads you through a vast landscape of vibrant music, white-sand beaches, mysterious Afro-Brazilian cults and magnificent, boom-town architecture. Whether you wish to travel through the Amazon, join in the revelry of Carnaval, hang-glide over Rio or take in the stunning Iguacu Falls, this guide will show the way.

• easy-to-read maps, including a detailed colour country maps and Rio city maps
• Portuguese language section
• extensive coverage of national parks and festivals
• details on places to stay and eat for all budgets
• in-depth notes on ecology and environment