EXPERIENCES  > SAO LUIS DE MARANHAO TO JERICOACOARA

Driving the Ever-inspiring ‘Route of Emotions’

Gear up for an all-encompassing and multilayered tour through some of the most spectacular scenery and significant cultural hubs in all of Brazil, on this journey of little-explored gems. Beginning with a trip to the French influenced 17th-century colonial town of São Luis de Maranhão, these historic cobbled streets of tiled facades and former palaces are a fitting start to proceedings, before uncovering the natural eminence of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park.

Otherworldly landscapes of towering sand dunes encircling motionless crystalline pools abound in Lençóis, a place which appears beyond belief by day or moonlight and a lifetime away from the human history of São Luis. The journey continues through the great River Delta of Parnaíba before reaching Jericoacoara, the coastal paradise previously untouched for centuries though still boasting some of Brazil’s most impressive bays today. Throughout this epic adventure, an essential understanding of regional culture is also on the cards, staying at family-run pousadas and visiting numerous local communities as we travel.