Holidays with rainforest/ jungle/ nature?

Aced2016

What about Cape Verde ?

Worth a look ! It's beautiful, has stunning beaches but you also get to see the other side of it.

Lots to see and do and great food !!

Also prices are really good for the level of accommodation you can get.

littlereddevil

You can also fly to the West coast of Mexico from Manchester on the Thomson Dreamliner I think. Puerto Vallarta. More Mexican than Cancun

Peccary

Another vote for Costa Rica, it's a special holiday, what's a bit more travel inconvenience? Look up Manuel Antonio National Park, you can walk jungle trails in the morning and be on a Pacific beach in the afternoon. Missed The cloud forest as pushed for time on a long trip but plan to go back one day.

Mexico is a good choice if you are willing to sacrifice seeing much wildlife. There are lots of other ruins beyond chichen itza and swimming in a cenote is a great experience

PeacefulWaters

I was going to post about the relative ease of booking a through flight from Manchester via Heathrow.

Then saw the Costa Rica flight departs from Gatwick ...

donglemouse

BA flight from Manchester->Heathrow->San Jose, Costa Rica is an option

but I'd left it out as the OP wanted to fly direct from Manchester and not spend >12 hours on a place

Katiehound

I realise that you wouldn't get jungle but CapeTown is 12 hours direct from London. Don't know if any airline flies Harare or Livingstone. Amazing animal safaris, Vic Falls.....

Sicard

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Yes, sorry I forgot Australia was such a long flight. It was only 7 hours for me when I used to go there for winter breaks.
Definitely ignore my suggestion!

7 hours! Did you fly in the USS Enterprise?

OP you're not going to get jungles in a 7 hour flight because they're on the Equator which is at least 10 hours. What about somewhere like Morocco at 4 hours?

bigadaj

Sicard wrote: »

7 hours! Did you fly in the USS Enterprise?

OP you're not going to get jungles in a 7 hour flight because they're on the Equator which is at least 10 hours. What about somewhere like Morocco at 4 hours?

Well you can get to most of west Africa on a seven hour flight, and that has plenty of tropical jungle.

Not an obvious joliday choice but would be something different.

Sicard

bigadaj wrote: »

Well you can get to most of west Africa on a seven hour flight, and that has plenty of tropical jungle.

Not an obvious joliday choice but would be something different.

It used to take me 9 hours from Heathrow to Nairobi, but from Manchester maybe it would take longer. I know it's East Africa but there's no rain forests there.

EconomicsGirl

We went to Brazil before, flew to Rio and stayed there were there is Copacabana beach, monkeys etc then went to Parity and stayed in middle of rainforest, amazing holiday.