Destinations
17 jungle markets, 103 verified stays. Each destination page covers the lay of the land, when to go, and the stays that justify the trip.
Costa Rica
The easiest serious jungle on earth — sloths over breakfast, surf twenty minutes away.
6 stays Explore Costa Rica
Brazil
Two different jungles: the Amazon's flooded forests, and the Mata Atlântica falling straight into the sea.
6 stays Explore Brazil
Bali
Nowhere else builds like this — five-story bamboo houses over river gorges, for the price of a city hotel room.
6 stays Explore Bali
Tulum & the Maya Jungle
Low, dense Maya jungle riddled with cenotes — swim in a cave before lunch, ruins before dinner.
6 stays Explore Tulum & the Maya Jungle
Puerto Rico
The only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system, no passport required for Americans.
6 stays Explore Puerto Rico
Florida
Banyans, bamboo groves and blackwater swamps — the jungle hiding inside the United States.
6 stays Explore Florida
Hawai‘i
Fern forests growing on fresh lava — the youngest jungle on the planet, and it feels like it.
6 stays Explore Hawai‘i
Thailand
Jungle two ways: limestone island rainforest over turquoise water, or misty mountain forest up north.
6 stays Explore Thailand
Peru
Lowland Amazon, river dolphins and Andean cloud forest, mostly reached by motorized canoe and sold as multi-day packages.
6 stays Explore Peru
Colombia
Four very different forests, from Amazon river lodges to Minca treehouses to Pacific cabins where the jungle runs into the sea.
6 stays Explore Colombia
Sri Lanka
Wet-zone rainforest, misty tea-estate hill country and dry-zone forest, with two monsoons that run on opposite calendars.
6 stays Explore Sri Lanka
NewBelize
More than half the country is forest, the ruins still wear their canopy, and the treehouses sit on real rivers.
7 stays Explore Belize
NewPanama
Caribbean island jungle in Bocas del Toro, cloud forest in Boquete, and sloths in the trees of the capital.
6 stays Explore Panama
NewEcuador
Mindo's cloud forest is two hours from Quito; the Amazon is a thirty-minute flight and a canoe ride.
6 stays Explore Ecuador
NewGuatemala
Temples above the treeline, a river canyon to the Caribbean, and turquoise pools in the limestone hills.
6 stays Explore Guatemala
NewBorneo
Wild orangutans, pygmy elephants and eight kinds of hornbill, in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth.
6 stays Explore Borneo
NewAustralia
The oldest rainforest on the planet runs straight down to the reef, and the cassowaries know it.
6 stays Explore Australia