One moment
Forests
Cachoeira da Fumacinha
A landscape at the end of the road · Ibicoara, Brazil
Photo: Rodolfo Bazetto · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.9★Rating
307Reviews
$Price level
Apr–OctBest time
The experience
A 100 m ribbon of water free-falling into a shadowed slot canyon walled by 280 m of rock, reached only by boulder-hopping up a riverbed for hours. Almost no one makes it here, and those who do swim in a cathedral-quiet pool.
The punishing 9 km riverbed trek (4h+ each way, mandatory guide, no phone signal) filters out nearly everyone.
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It's only worth the detour Apr–Oct. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Ibicoara, Brazil · Chapada Diamantina, Bahia. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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