I had been enchanted with Sugar Loaf Mountain ever since I saw it in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, in which Bond battles with Jaws on a cable car traveling up Rio de Janerio’s most famous landmark (along with the Christ the Redeemer statue that sits at its top). [...]

Our second installment of “The Expeditioner’s 2010 In Review” series comes from co-editor Brit Weaver. She’s planning a return trip back to South America, and she’s offering up some thought on the year past and predictions for the year to come: Your Travel in 2010? My travel in 2010 consisted [...]

I guess it’s simmers down to someone’s personal comfort level. For example, I would not go white water rafting. I don’t like baths, I don’t like swimming, I sometimes find beaches rather boring. I know it’s kind of lame. While in Buenos Aires, I heard about villa tours — “villa” [...]

The Amazon — with its 1.4 billion acres — may get all the glory when it comes to Brazilian rain forests, but visitors to Rio and the southern part of the country have just as good of access to a rain forest, without having to travel the several hours to [...]

• L.A. to Bangkok for $620. This one’s for travel from September 15th to November 15th. Book now, make up for that lame “staycation” you had this summer. • NYC to St. Thomas for $315. Yeah okay, you’re kind of getting sick of that hot, sticky heat now, but believe [...]

• Wow, how depressing is it that we can already begin talking about travel plans for the fall? Aaugh, at least the fall allows us to look forward to blockbuster travel deals, and it allows me to start sentences like I’m writing for Charlie Brown. Flights to Glasgow and Edinburgh [...]

Blessed with stunning views and located in what seems like worlds apart from the overcrowded, tourist-friendly sections of the city, Rio’s slums or “favelas” may soon become the city’s trendiest destination. Favelas like Vidigal, which overlooks Ipanema Beach and the Cagarras Islands (and was the filming locale for “City of [...]

Discovering Brazil on a whim and three weeks to spare By Andrew Porteous My friend Tim and I had three weeks vacation available that we had to use before the end of year or lose them. Tim left the decision as to where we would be going up to me. [...]