Gap Year travellers to Brazil can do no better than starting in Rio – what an amazingly vibrant city (samba, music, football, carnival and beach culture), incredible people, it is an assault on the senses with ultra modern juxtaposed against great poverty. If you’re a gap year traveller you will have so many choices – the 1000’s of kilometres of beaches and coastline are legendary, especially for kite surfers, who live for the winds and beaches in the north.

Obviously no intrepid gap year traveller can visit Brazil without venturing in to the Amazon jungle or the simply majestic Iguacu waterfalls. Brazil has enormous rainforests teeming with amazing animals and birdlife and wetlands. To see a howler monkey or a jaguar in the wild is a never to be forgotten experience.

The natural beauty and vibrant colours of the landscape, wildlife and birdlife are often mirrored in the exotic and colourful dress and appearance of the many myriad tribes partly Portuguese, Amazonian Indians and descendants of African slaves.

Brazil – the fifth largest country in the world with wonderfully preserved colonial towns, with their intricate Portuguese architecture. Once you have travelled in Brazil why not head north to Ecuador or Venezuela or Costa Rica where we have some fantastic and rewarding projects.