October.
Bali, Borneo and the Daintree are in their last prime weeks; the Amazon in Peru and Brazil is still good. Central America and the Caribbean are at peak rain.
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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.
Best months: Coast: year-round · Amazon: June – November 6 stays in 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.
Best months: April – October (dry season) 6 stays in Bali
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.
Best months: Year-round; April – October slightly drier 6 stays in Hawai‘i
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.
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
Photo: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0Borneo
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
Photo: Iraphne R. Childs, CC BY 4.0Australia
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 AustraliaAlso works, and quieter.
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