When to go

August.

Same as July with Colombia's Caribbean coast in its second dry spell and Sri Lanka's dry zone at its best. Hurricane season is building in the Caribbean and Florida.

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South America

Brazil

Two different jungles: the Amazon's flooded forests, and the Mata Atlântica falling straight into the sea.

Best months: Coast: year-round · Amazon: June – November 6 stays in Brazil

Southeast Asia

Bali

Nowhere else builds like this — five-story bamboo houses over river gorges, for the price of a city hotel room.

Best months: April – October (dry season) 6 stays in Bali

Pacific

Hawai‘i

Fern forests growing on fresh lava — the youngest jungle on the planet, and it feels like it.

Best months: Year-round; April – October slightly drier 6 stays in Hawai‘i

South America

Peru

Lowland Amazon, river dolphins and Andean cloud forest, mostly reached by motorized canoe and sold as multi-day packages.

Best months: Dry season May–Oct best for wildlife and trails; wet Nov–Apr cheaper, and Iquitos high water Dec–May improves boat access to flooded forest 6 stays in Peru

South America

Colombia

Four very different forests, from Amazon river lodges to Minca treehouses to Pacific cabins where the jungle runs into the sea.

Best months: Caribbean side (Minca, Tayrona) driest Dec–Mar and Jul–Aug; Chocó wet year-round but humpback whales Jul–Oct; Leticia no true dry season, easier trails Jun–Nov 6 stays in Colombia

South America

Ecuador

Mindo's cloud forest is two hours from Quito; the Amazon is a thirty-minute flight and a canoe ride.

Best months: June – September for Mindo; the Amazon works year round, with high water March – July 6 stays in Ecuador

Southeast Asia

Borneo

Wild orangutans, pygmy elephants and eight kinds of hornbill, in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth.

Best months: March – October (drier); November – February is the wet monsoon 6 stays in Borneo

Oceania

Australia

The oldest rainforest on the planet runs straight down to the reef, and the cassowaries know it.

Best months: May – October (dry, stinger-free seas); December – April is the wet 6 stays in Australia

Shoulder season

Also works, and quieter.

01 Costa Rica December – April (dry), May – August (green, quieter) 6 stays 02 Tulum & the Maya Jungle November – April 6 stays 03 Sri Lanka Southwest rainforest and hill country (Sinharaja, Ella) best Dec–Apr; dry-zone south and east (Yala, Sigiriya) best May–Sep, the opposite calendar 6 stays 04 Belize Late November – May (dry); June – November is green, wet and cheaper 7 stays 05 Panama December – April (dry); Bocas often clears in September and October 6 stays 06 Guatemala December – April (dry); wettest from September to November 6 stays

Wet or storm season

Save these for another month.

01Puerto Rico December – April (driest), but green year-round

02Florida November – April

03Thailand Islands: January – April · North: November – February

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