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.
Photo: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0Costa Rica
The easiest serious jungle on earth — sloths over breakfast, surf twenty minutes away.
6 stays Explore Costa Rica
Photo: Deni Williams from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY 2.0Brazil
Two different jungles: the Amazon's flooded forests, and the Mata Atlântica falling straight into the sea.
6 stays Explore Brazil
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0Bali
Nowhere else builds like this — five-story bamboo houses over river gorges, for the price of a city hotel room.
6 stays Explore Bali
Photo: edenpictures, CC BY 2.0Tulum & 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
Photo: Jami430, CC BY-SA 4.0Puerto Rico
The only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system, no passport required for Americans.
6 stays Explore Puerto Rico
Photo: Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0Florida
Banyans, bamboo groves and blackwater swamps — the jungle hiding inside the United States.
6 stays Explore Florida
Photo: AlaskaDave, CC BY-SA 3.0Hawai‘i
Fern forests growing on fresh lava — the youngest jungle on the planet, and it feels like it.
6 stays Explore Hawai‘i
Photo: Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0Thailand
Jungle two ways: limestone island rainforest over turquoise water, or misty mountain forest up north.
6 stays Explore Thailand
Photo: Ivan Mlinaric, CC BY 2.0Peru
Lowland Amazon, river dolphins and Andean cloud forest, mostly reached by motorized canoe and sold as multi-day packages.
6 stays Explore Peru
Photo: Shallodarns, CC BY-SA 4.0Colombia
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
Photo: Laslovarga, CC BY-SA 3.0NewBelize
More than half the country is forest, the ruins still wear their canopy, and the treehouses sit on real rivers.
7 stays Explore Belize
Photo: Aaron O'Dea, CC BY-SA 3.0NewPanama
Caribbean island jungle in Bocas del Toro, cloud forest in Boquete, and sloths in the trees of the capital.
6 stays Explore Panama
Photo: nearsjasmine, CC BY-SA 2.0NewEcuador
Mindo's cloud forest is two hours from Quito; the Amazon is a thirty-minute flight and a canoe ride.
6 stays Explore Ecuador
Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0NewGuatemala
Temples above the treeline, a river canyon to the Caribbean, and turquoise pools in the limestone hills.
6 stays Explore Guatemala
Photo: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0NewBorneo
Wild orangutans, pygmy elephants and eight kinds of hornbill, in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth.
6 stays Explore Borneo
Photo: Iraphne R. Childs, CC BY 4.0NewAustralia
The oldest rainforest on the planet runs straight down to the reef, and the cassowaries know it.
6 stays Explore Australia