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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 SweetCaroline
December 31st 2009

Arrival in Santiago! South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Providencia

View from the Apartment

Happy New Year from Santiago, Chile! I want to say hello again to all my friends and family that followed me on the crazy year abroad in Germany, and also welcome to all of the new kids on the block. I hope that you all enjoy sharing these travels and adventures with me as I make my way through South America. :-) I left a rainy and cold Austin, and barely made it out of the snowy Dallas area (global warming, haha right) to arrive in sunny, warm Santiago! Luckily with the new restrictions in air travel I was traveling out [View Full Entry]

By kklonosk
December 31st 2009

Four days til Peru! South America » Peru

saddle-back tamarins

For the next four months, I'll be living in the Peruvian Amazon studying the behavior and genetics of saddle-back tamarins. Expect lots of stories and pictures from the Los Amigos Biological Station, where I'll be chasing monkeys from dawn til dusk, getting bitten by an innumerable amount of insects and being terrified on a daily basis by the plethora of snakes and spiders. It's gonna be great! [View Full Entry]

By Correcaminos
December 31st 2009

En parallele... Gala de graff' a gogo South America

Chile

Au hasard des rues... [View Full Entry]

By Hein
December 31st 2009

Finally O´Higgins South America

don carlos with bike in the plane

Thanks to a good pilot Don Carlos and maybe not too bad weather Bicycle and me arrived and the beginning or end of the Carretera Austral. The flight in a 6 seater plan is truly different from that of an Airbus. When you are in the clouds you are really in the clouds. 10m view to the end of the wing and that is the end of the world. In between mountains of 4000m we were flying stable on 2000m. It feels a lot beter if you see were you are going. Pilot very experienced and flying the distance for years [View Full Entry]

By Hein
December 31st 2009

First day in Coyhaigue South America

The morning of the first day did not look promissing. Got the bike out of the box and was of course curious if the bike survived all the luggage handling. Only in the afternoon a first ray of sunshine hit on Coyhaigue.Quickly as I could I got on the bike, direction Coyhaigue Alto, the border with Argentina. After 10 km already the clouds were faster than me. First grail and then rain. It fl ike a drop of temperature of 10 degrees. Back to the Hospedaje Mar Luz of Martha with the 4 lovely married daughters. The reservation of my air [View Full Entry]

By jessurlechemin
December 30th 2009

La suite car il manque des vidéos et phOtos avec les écris précédents °° ^_^°° South America » Chile » O Higgins » Pichilemu

Photo 32

tout d'abord la Cueca ..la vidéo parce que pour ceux qui ne l'ont pas vu..ben c'est a voir ..ok c'est pas de bonne qualité..mais on fait ceux qu'on peut°° Ensuite Pichilemu ce fameux w end ou l'on est sorti de Santiago pour aller à l'océan..grace à José et a sa famille le samedi Man et sa copine sont allé se balader, et je suis allé avec cédric voir les vagues et l'accompagner jusqu'ou il a gouté ses premières Vagues pichilemienne pour 2009, j'en ai profité pour me mettre au jus niveau caméra vidéo et tenter mes premier filmages :s En rentrant [View Full Entry]

By Doddy and Bowks
December 30th 2009

Santiago, Chile South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago

Welcome to Chile!

Santiago 15th - 17th December 2009 The bus journey to Chile went well except for a bit of a 2 hour wait at the border control to queue in a line of other buses waiting to have passports stamped and bags searched. Still, it gave us chance to eat any remaining food items that couldn't be carried across the border. You'll be pleased to know we were allowed into Chile but not before having to explain what Dulce de Leche (like a toffee Nutella) and olive and blue cheese paste were to the border control officials, but thankfully they let us [View Full Entry]

Street performers about ready to perform a tradtional dance

By RonBigman
December 29th 2009

Feria de Cali South America » Colombia » Cali

Where what when I am now in Cali, in the middle of the festival. Having a great time, dancing everyday. And now a news reporter? After I gave some legal advice on Bogota, it was just time for me to look for a new profession here in Cali, and thanks to a great tip from Amnon (A friend of mine, most of U should know him), I found the right one for me - News reporter Amnon recommended me to go to the main offices and says I am a reporter to get a reporter passage. Of course, for me things [View Full Entry]

By amatth11
December 29th 2009

Cusco and el camino inca South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco

It seems that most of the buses here run overnight - I had wanted to do the trip to Cusco in the daytime so I could see the mountains, but was told it was overnight or chickens.. That left me with a spare day in Arequipa, so I asked the hostel what to do; they suggested white water rafting, but I spotted cookery lessons so tried that instead. We walked back down to the market, and this time I spotted the frog juice (does exactly what it says on the tin) but didn't try it. We bought all the ingredients and [View Full Entry]

By marjanca
December 29th 2009

Perito Moreno South America » Argentina » Santa Cruz » El Calafate

uitzicht vanuit onze kamer

Na 30 uur reizen, 3 vliegtuigen, 1 bus door Buenos Aires en een stukje taxi waren we dan gisteren aangekomen in ons hostel in El Calefate. We zijn daar nog even het centrum ingeweest, hebben daar een paar boodschappen gehaald en zijn vervolgens een paar uur gecrashed in onze kamer. Voor ons avondeten hadden we ons opgegeven voor de allyoucaneat BBQ, die elke avond in het hostel hiervlakbij werd gehouden. Dat was een enorm goede BBQ! En dat kwam niet alleen doordat we echt aan een hapje eten toe waren. Het vlees was fantastisch en daarbij hadden we ook nog schitterend [View Full Entry]

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