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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 Silke y Raphael
May 19th 2006

Unterwegs auf kolonialen Spuren....

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi

Cerro Rico im Abendlicht

Hallo ihr Lieben, nach so viel (wunderschoener) Natur in den letzten Wochen, war es mal wieder Zeit auch der Kunst & Kultur ein wenig zu froenen. So hat uns unsere Reise diesmal mitten hinein in laengst vergangene Zeiten gefuehrt. Und in was fuer Zeiten! Potosi galt im spaeten 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhundert als eine der reichsten Staedte der Erde. Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts zaehlte die Stadt bereits 120000 Einwohner - ausser London konnte damals keine Stadt in Europa eine solche Einwohnerzahl vorweisen. Das Ganze ist um so verrueckter wenn man sich klar macht, dass Potosi auf sch [View Full Entry]

By Hablo ingles
May 19th 2006

Welcome to Bolivia

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Tupiza

Welcome to Bolivia
Smaller versions of my mum everywhere

I left Salta at 00:30 and took a bus to La Quacia, which is the last town before the Bolivian border. The bus dropped us off 7 hours later. Border crossings are always tense places to be and I was expecting the worse at this one, but it turned out to be the easiest and most relaxed so far. I walked to the end of town and once I crossed the bridge I had left Argentina and was in Villarion, Bolivia,where immigration formalities were almost non-existent. I managed to catch a bus to Tupiza straight away. All throughout this trip, I've [View Full Entry]

By Omega
May 19th 2006

Iguazú Falls under the Rain

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park

Trek Under the Falls

Breakfast on our day of exploration of the Iguazú National Park was very expeditious by our standards. Following the advice of our Cuenca Tours operator, we had prepared a full change of clothes so that we could be more comfortable after our “gomones” boat expedition to the base of the falls. We were also carrying with us our full load of camera gear (video and still photography). A small Cuenca-branded van with a driver and a couple of young female passengers pulled in front of our hotel at the appointed time (7:45 AM). We were actually expecting something a little bigger [View Full Entry]

By AliJ
May 19th 2006

Bingo, bingo and more bingo

South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro

Rain in Rio

Had a pretty good week teaching - although to be fair, not a lot of teaching was done. On Monday afternoon I should have had two classes but as the guy that runs the project was off sick they had to lock up the centre where I teach. I ended up playing hide-and-seek and blind man´s buff for 2 hours instead. The kids were great although I had to tell them to calm down as the toy fighting was getting a little out of hand. We also had a bit of trouble from 3 boys that I´d never seen before. My [View Full Entry]

By FullOfContradictions
May 19th 2006

Back From the Amazon

South America » Peru » Cusco » Manu National Park

Manu Expeditions
Our incredibly intimidating modified 4X4 expedition vehicle.

We made it back to Cusco this morning, a little worse for the wear, but quite enjoyed the trip! Peru is approximately two-thirds jungle. The most pristine and protected of the jungle is an area called the Manu Biosphere Reserve consisting of 20,000 square kilometers. It is also the most virgin/pristine jungle probably because it the hardest to get to and the most expensive to get to! There are 13 species of monkeys here (more than anywhere else in the country), 15,000 plants, 1,300 butterflies, and more than a milion insects that have not been even close to documented. To visit [View Full Entry]

By brettandshiv
May 19th 2006

Everybody's gone surfing!!!

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora

Mancora - Our beach house
The view from our open-air bedroom.

Distracted for 2 months by the vastness and beauty of the sights in South America, we've finally arrived at the beach to expose our lily white asses to the sun and start surfing. Mancora is a very laid back little surf-village near Ecuador, blessed with warm water and numerous good surf spots. We treated ourselves to a 9 bedded apartment overlooking the sea for the first few days but the cost of this shag pad and being woken by our gay landlord with his wrinkley lovers in the jacuzzi every morning forced us to review our options. We moved into a [View Full Entry]

By Kiri
May 19th 2006

Random Photos of my Life in Bolivia

South America » Bolivia » Chuquisaca Department » Sucre

Out with the Girls
This is the other Saturday night... More to say but not here :-)

Once again I'm not going to write much here, rather annotate each photo seperately... [View Full Entry]

By Lorna
May 19th 2006

climbing the volcano!!!!!!!!!!!!!

South America » Chile » Araucanía » Villarrica Volcano

Hard Hard Hard Hard Hard Hard Day Totally totally totally big time!!!! Read on We have recruited two new ozzie blokes that we met in the hot springs who also joined us for the football. We all argued over dinner and wine!! in our cabana if the weather would clear up the next day so that we could climb the volcano. The tour company said it would take a miracle for the weather to clear up and refused to take any money from us. However we were so persistent that they allowed us to try the gear on and if the [View Full Entry]

By Pauly
May 19th 2006

The Inca Trail

South America » Peru » Cusco » Inca Trail

Machu Picchu

We have just finished our 4 day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The trek was great however we are both well and truly exhausted. This trek was a little different to our last one, as our group consisted of just Andrew, myself, our guide, a chef and five porters. This is apparently unusual, as another group which started on the same day as us had 50 hikers and 100 porters. Our guide was an interesting character. When he told us that his favourite artist of all time was Vanilla Ice and went to the extent of playing "Ice, Ice, Baby" on [View Full Entry]

By Ster
May 19th 2006

Yavari and public transport across borders

South America » Peru » Puno

There it is

We had a good night´s rest and then breakfast which mostly consists of bbj (bread, butter and jam) and cups of tea and juice; we then go down the pedestrian street and hop into a taxi to the Yavari museo outside the Sonesta Posada Hotel del Inca. Like ourselves, the driver didn't know where it was so he drove down to the main port and had to ask someone where it was they pointed across to the other side of the bay and the driver seemed certain of where to go at this point. We head in that direction driving over [View Full Entry]

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