Only after lunch did we begin our second walk, a 6.2-mile trek from the quiet, untouched region of Rancharia leading us to ...

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Friday declared Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park a World Natural Heritage Site, making it the South American ...

The property is located in northeastern Brazil, on the east coast of Maranhão, in a transition zone between three Brazilian biomes: Cerrado, Caatinga and Amazon. More than half of its area consists of ...

Stretching on for miles upon miles, the sand dunes in Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are so vast and so blindingly white that it's easy to see how the park got its name—Lençóis Maranhenses ...

As a visitor sets eyes on the brilliant pools of paradise that characterize Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park for the first time, it wouldn’t be out of line to assume hallucination. Dazzling ...

Spectacular sandscape: Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil's Maranhão state covers 598 square miles. Dunes are broken up by cerulean lagoons between March and September.