Words & Photography: Jacques Marais
 
Brazil is a big country—in every sense of the word. It covers nearly half of the South American continent—it’s bigger than Australia—and rates as the fifth largest nation on Planet Earth, both in area and in population. You would have to travel more than 4 000km to cross the country from either north to south or east to west, and the coastline stretches 7 400km.

Despite its imposing size, most people still think of Brazil as blanketed in Amazonian rain forest. To be fair, I did too. But then I travelled to the country’s north-eastern extremities, where I discovered a culture and landscape diametrically at odds with what I expected. Quirky villages. Millions of palm trees. Shifting dunes. Outback desert. Tropical beaches. They all combine to create a lifestyle and landscape as close to laid-back as you will ever find.


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