Fernando de Noronha had been on my list for years. This tiny volcanic archipelago sits about 350 km off Brazil's northeastern coast, and Brazil has decided, deliberately and aggressively, to keep it limited to tourism. Access is limited, the fees
The Pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland, a basin somewhere between 140,000 and 200,000 square kilometers spread across Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay (but mostly in Brazil), fed by the tributaries that feed into the Paraguay River. Unlike the dense,