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South America is a continent situated in the western hemisphere and, mostly, the southern hemisphere, and bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean.

As part of the Americas, South America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a New World unknown to Europeans.

South America offers a range of travel options - with stunning coastlines, vibrant cities, historic colonial towns, mountainous treks and the vast and bio-diverse Amazonian rainforest.

Highlights

• Angel Falls, Canaima National Park Venezuela
• Merida, Venezuela
• Amazon River Basin, Brazil/Peru/Bolivia
• The Rio de Janeiro Carnival, Brazil
• Iguaçu Falls, Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay
• The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
• Huascarán National Park, Peru
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
• Atacama Desert, Chile
• Wine Regions of Chile and Argentina
• Snow Skiing-Valle Nevado(Chile), Chillan(Chile), Las Lenas(Argentina)
• Puerto Varas, Chile; Bariloche, Argentina
• Torres del Paine, Chile
• Ushuaia, Argentina

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By jillsbrain
November 28th 2008

There will be mud & The Jungle--- Upton Sinclair rolls over in his grave

South America » Ecuador » East » Cuyabeno Reserve

tarantula

Wading the depths of the Amazon basin, where piranha, tarantulas, scorpions, anaconda and caymans are no longer merely words and glossy photographs on a page, but are instead the fabric from which the jungle is woven. Half the fun of the adventure is in the journey there and back. I left Quito via public transportation around midnight (after missing the earlier bus!) and arrived in Lago Agrio 8 hours later, while Karsten had opted for the 20 min flight. Lago Agrios is the last stop on the Northeastern frontier. If you think that the aforementioned critters are scary, let me shed [View Full Entry]

wouldn´t even want to mess with the small guys

By Nikki77
November 27th 2008

Good Bye Ilha Grande

South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Ilha Grande

Well I am finally leaving this island of paradise tomorrow. The moment I stepped off of the boat I knew it was perfect for me right now. There are no cars on the island and no banks (this is a good thing otherwise I think I may have got stuck here for about 6 months!). It feels like what I imagine a carabean island would feel like - people are happy, smiling and warm and there is regae and samba music all the time. It is no surprise that Brazilians have the bums that they do because they really know how [View Full Entry]

By The Bernard Brothers
November 27th 2008

The Magical Mystery Tour: 1,000 Miles on Ruta 40

South America » Argentina

Ruta 40

We weren't imitating Ken Kesey and the merry pranksters taking heavy psychedelics and messing around with hi fi stereos, we aren't from Liverpool, and we can´t even play instruments, but the road trip through Patagonia was nonetheless a Magical Mystery Tour. The landscape was magical, what was going to happen next a complete mystery, and a tour... well I´m not entirely sure how that fits in as it was not planned at all, but we are tourists, so I guess it applies. We left Bariloche in the evening and headed south to El Bolson, where we had spent a night previously. [View Full Entry]

By Dan and Jens Escape
November 27th 2008

Argentina Part 2.....Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires
Plaza Fuerza Aerea Agentina

We flew into Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina from Bogota and had high expectations of this city as we had heard so many good reports about the nightlife and the sites. The reports didn't disappoint, the city had so much to see and for the three nights we were there we had a great time in the bars at Palermo and San Telmo areas. Unfortunately we only had a relatively short time to explore as we had already been in Argentina at the beginning of South America so we only wanted to visit Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls before crossing [View Full Entry]

By Lucyeclarke
November 27th 2008

My (brief) Chilean adventure...

South America » Chile » Santiago Region

San Pedro de Atacama

Part 1: The Atacama Desert The first place that i visited was the Atacama Desert. After a tiring night travelling, as i forgot about the time difference between Chile and Peru and so the flight was only 3 hours and not the 5 hours i was anticipating, i arrived in my second South American country! The Atacama was amazing, although very very hot - even in the evening the temperature was over 25°C! San Pedro was a beautiful little town, full of white wash buildings. On my first day i saw the massive Salar de Atacama (salt plane, which is 200 [View Full Entry]

By Los Mineros
November 27th 2008

Living in the high world

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz

Huayna Potosi (6088m/19974f)
Day 1: a bit scary to climb

Here is the 7th post. First of all, Max joined us in La Paz on November, 17th: los Mineros are now a complete team and here is the first part of our Bolivian trip. We heard from people that they could not read our previous entries. So, here is the link to see all of them : La Paz, La Paz Department: This city is the highest capital in the world, 3800m (12467 feet) above the sea level. In order to get a good idea of the city you have to picture it: 1.7 millions people living at 3800m surrounded [View Full Entry]

By TobySola
November 27th 2008

cafayate

South America » Argentina » Salta » Cafayate

Salta is by far my favorite city so far. Incredible colonial architecture backdropped by insane mountain landscapes. I met a friend from luxenburge and another guy from Buenos aires in Salta and the guy from buenos aires has a car so we drove today to cafayate, 3 hours south of salta. the drive was so beautiful. the road winds through the dessert mountains and the mountains are all different colors, green, brown, tan, white, red, orange, and texture is extremely varied. this landscape is of another planet, we stopped at la garganta del diablo (the throat of the devil) which is [View Full Entry]

By EmmaRoundTheWorld
November 27th 2008

The elections came and went. And so did the rain.

South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas

Voting
Queuing is everywhere here and of course elections day is no exception.

So the elections came and went and well... nothing much happened. The weekend was the quietest weekend I've ever experienced in Caracas and by monday most things seemed to be back to normal. A bit of music and fireworks on sunday night, long before they'd even announced the results, was all that came out of it. Chavez of course instantly declared himself the winner, based on candidates from his party winning in the majority of the states around the country. But the truth is that he only really managed to win farmlands, causing one newspaper to refer to it as Chavez's [View Full Entry]

By ginsengdrummer
November 27th 2008

Hiking Ushuaia

South America » Argentina » Tierra del Fuego » Ushuaia

Lighthouse

Hey everybody, I am in Ushuaia, which has termed itself the World´s Southernmost City. Puerto Williams, a podunk village just across the Beagle Channel, has a good case for being further south, though its claim at being a city is fairly dubious. Anyway, I´m gonna let them duke it out and I´ll simply claim to have gotten pretty goddamned far south. Over the past few days, I have done some of the best hiking I have done in a long time. In terms of scenery and accessibility, Ushuaia ranks very high for trekking. The terrain is amazingly variable, spanning the range [View Full Entry]

By kristina1706
November 27th 2008

Finally in Brazil

South America » Brazil » São Paulo » Ubatuba

Itagua beach

youppyyyyy!! We’re finally in Brazil and loving it!! The beach, the sea, the humidity... the fact that after spending over 3 weeks in an altitude above 3300m walking here is a "peace of cake"... After Bolivia, we’ve spend two more days in Puno before once again we've had to head direction airport and catch a plane... this one was going to take us from Juliaca to Lima from where we've had a booking to Sao Paulo some hours later (7, to be exact... which was more then enough time to fill ourselves up with some alcoholic beverages in the lounge...) Once [View Full Entry]

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