Tibro

    Brazil,
    by the bay.

    Four journeys built around Rio and Iguaçu. Ipanema at first light, a Pão de Açúcar evening, the falls from both sides on the same day.
    2017first journey
    4Brazil routes
    3anchors
    Rio de Janeiro Cristo Redentor Sugarloaf bay
    Pão de Açúcar, the loaf
    Rio, Cristo from above the bay
    Preface, on the country that lives outdoors

    Brazil is a country that decided to be outside. Rio is set inside a national park; Salvador's old town opens onto the Atlantic; the Pantanal is bigger than France and you can drive into it. Three days for Rio, two for Iguaçu, three for Salvador or the Amazon, and a Pantanal week when you have the time. Best between April and October. South of Salvador is dry, north is still warm, and the festas line up across both coasts.

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    Interlude, Plates from the field

    Things we
    have seen.

    Eight plates from the studio's last three years. The bay from Cristo at first light, Iguaçu from both sides, a Pelourinho afternoon in Salvador.

    Cristo Redentor Rio
    Plate I01
    Cristo, arms open over a quiet city.
    Corcovado, 6:45 AM
    Ipanema beach Rio
    Plate II02
    Ipanema, the line of the morning swim.
    Ipanema, early morning
    Sugarloaf Mountain Rio de Janeiro
    Plate III03
    Pão de Açúcar, the bay turning copper.
    Sugarloaf, golden hour
    Iguazu Falls Brazil
    Plate IV04
    Iguaçu, both sides on the same day.
    Foz do Iguaçu, noon
    Salvador Pelourinho Bahia
    Plate V05
    Pelourinho, cobalt and butter on a Salvador wall.
    Salvador, afternoon
    Amazon river Brazil
    Plate VI06
    Rio Negro, black water from the lodge dock.
    Manaus, early morning
    Lapa arches Rio at night
    Plate VII07
    Lapa, and the arches at the end of a tram line.
    Lapa, evening
    Iguazu Falls Devil's Throat
    Plate VIII08
    Devil's Throat, spray on the platform at two in the afternoon.
    Iguaçu, Argentine side
    Eight plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
    Colophon

    A small note
    on how we work.

    Tibro has been routing Brazil since 2017. Eight years of Rio mornings, Iguaçu both-side days, Salvador weekends, and the Brazil-Argentina ten-night arcs that travellers come back wanting to do again.

    We work with a Rio-based partner desk run by Camila (originally a Forte de Copacabana naval museum curator) and a Foz do Iguaçu coordinator who has driven our travellers across both sides of the falls in the same morning since 2018.

    Hotels in Rio are a beach-or-bay problem. Ipanema for the first time, Copacabana for the second, Santa Teresa for the third. We hold rooms at four properties year-round and pick by traveller.

    Four routes is what we currently maintain. The Rio-Iguaçu eight-night is the most-requested; we route the falls AFTER Rio because arriving at Iguaçu with the city already done lets the spray be the trip's loudest moment.

    8Years of routing Brazil
    4Routes, none repeated
    11 / 24Hours we tend to reply within

    Warmly,
    The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Rio (partner), Foz do Iguaçu (falls liaison)

    Letters received
    From the studio's folder

    What they wrote
    when they got home.

    Three letters from the last twelve months.

    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
    Rio & Iguaçu, eight nights, April 2024

    Four Rio nights, three Iguaçu, one back in Rio. Camila walked us up to Cristo at six in the morning before the cable-cars opened, and the city below us was still asleep. The Foz coordinator did both sides in one day. Brazilian for the panorama, Argentine for the Devil's Throat platform. Without us once feeling rushed. We came home wanting Salvador on the next visit.

    P. & K. IyerBengaluru, first Brazil trip
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
    Brazil Grand Tour, ten nights, September 2024

    Rio, Iguaçu, Salvador in ten nights. The Pelourinho afternoon Camila handed us off to was a Bahian walker who showed us his own neighbourhood instead of the route. The Iguaçu helicopter the studio routed in. A Tibro idea we hadn't asked for. Was the morning the whole trip will be remembered for.

    A. & R. KrishnanChennai, returning Tibro traveller
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
    Brazil & Argentina, twelve nights, October 2024

    Rio, Iguaçu, Buenos Aires. The land crossing at Foz was the part we had been nervous about and the part Tibro made invisible. One driver on the Brazilian side, paperwork handled, one driver waiting on the Argentine. Camila in Rio set the tone for the whole trip; we are already thinking about a return for the Pantanal.

    M. & N. BhattacharyaKolkata, returning, second South-America trip
    4.90 / 5Average from 86 returned travellers
    34%Travel with us a second time
    11 hrsMean reply time to a first letter
    An open letter

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    nights, and which third city.

    Two questions decide a Brazil trip: how many nights, and which third city. Salvador for the Bahian coast, Manaus for the Amazon, Buenos Aires for the cross-country. Camila in Rio writes back inside the working day with hotels held on a tentative.

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