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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 Ster
May 14th 2006

Exploring Cuzco - Nustapacana trek

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco

north side of sexywoman
getting to the trail on foot...

You never know where opening a book is going to take you... We eyed this walk to a local Inca ruin from a tome called Exploring Cuzco by Frost it's a great resource for trekking in the area and available for purchase (or reference) at the local South American Explorers club house that we joined this past week. Utilising the resources is priceless this was a great recommendation by fellow travelers staying at the same hostel as us - we seemed to keep running into them during breakfast hour! While perusing through the book I noticed a ni [View Full Entry]

By Snaily
May 14th 2006

Étape à Arica

South America » Chile » Arica & Parinacota » Arica

L'arrivée à Arica se fait donc 27 heures plus tard, et de nuit, c'est une ville coloniale, très surfaite, mais les chiliens sont très accueillants et très patients, mais j'ai honte de ne pas pouvoir parler leur langue. Je dois m'y mettre, c'est vraiment la pire forme de voyage que de débarquer sans rien savoir. Dès mon arrivée à La Paz... je prends des cours intensifs. [View Full Entry]

By Vitaliy
May 14th 2006

Boca Juniors vs. Olimpo - The Championship

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

La Boca museum
All the players of La Boca

Football in Argentina is a very serious business. They even have a museum for it. When we visited La Boca football museum and La Bomboñera stadium in a tour, and saw it empty, I was curious about how would it fill when it's full, because although it had 60,000 seats, it looked pretty small. The match to which I bought a ticket was for the Argentinean Championship, so I hoped it would be exciting. But in reality it was just one big celebration, because La Boca had already won the championship by a points difference. One of the fans has told [View Full Entry]

By Nathy B
May 14th 2006

Chile/ Argentina - Lake District

South America » Chile » Araucanía » Pucón

reunited
furnicular to Cerro San Cristobal - Santiago

Hey Everybody, As some of you may know two weeks ago I left Costa Rica and Los Parra for Chile from where me and Laura, now reunited plan to travel across South America until 12th August. I arrived two days before her, spending my time exploring Santiago - the very european capital of Chile - slightly nicer than San Jose. Not much to note from these two days other than this park that I went to full of ridiculously over the top couples all over the place, a slightly different spanish accent, a man who claimed he was a medical student, [View Full Entry]

By diggitym
May 14th 2006

Colca Canyon

South America » Peru » Arequipa » Colca Canyon

Just did a two day hike down into one of the deepest canyons in the world, Colca Canyon. There were 6 of us in the group. me, our guide Hugo, two really cool swiss girls and two british boys straight out of high school. the walk down into the canyon was pretty rough, verry steep, rocky, volcanic stuff. Murray and Russel were both armed with leki poles and russel (or murray-i still don't know which is which) particularly liked stabbing fallen cactus 'leaves' and hurling them into the canyon below from the end of his pole, then turning around at me [View Full Entry]

By Amanda and Griffin Schutt
May 14th 2006

Could Someone Please Tell Lola That She Is No Longer Needed in Copacabana?

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Copacabana

Dancing with Intent

"Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl..." Ahhhh! How I love Barry Manilow, writer of the songs that make the young girls sing! My sister and I used to sing this tune often, especially when we both were serving our time as waitresses in a Seattle based, Bolivian restaurant called none other than, "Copacabana". After delivering thousands of plates filled with "Pollo Saltado" and clarifying countless times that a Bolivian "empanada" is nothing at all like a Mexican, "enchilada" (I can still see the look of confusion on many a customer’s face after delivering the meat-filled pastry instead [View Full Entry]

By Sbuckley
May 14th 2006

last entry from ecuador

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

kyle and i head out of here on wednesday! its been a busy week for us because there is only 6 of us. we have had a new cappuchin monkey that is really amazing at escaping. it really is unbelievable how he escaped four times this week. it has taken up quite a bit of time for us to go chasing him down but it is always entertaining. we got a bunch of new turtles that came in from different homes and such and the back of the police truck had blood all over it from the turtles. when we asked [View Full Entry]

By sternkreuza
May 14th 2006

Cataratas de Iguazú

South America » Argentina » Misiones » Iguazú National Park

cataratas 1

geschter also, am 13. mai simmer in puerto iguazú nochere lange, aber chillige busfahrt acho. hend denn gad mol e guets hostel gfunde. ganz friedlich. vo gruene baeum umgeh und sou und denn hemmer ues en friedliche nommi gmacht. am noechschte tag, also ebe am 14 mai. simmer denn am morge recht frueh ufgstande. leider isches de sarah noed wuerkli guet gange und drum hemmer alles chli langsamer muesse agho. aber macht jo nuet. sind denn mitem bus zum igang vo de faell gfahre und hend ues denn uf de waeg gmacht da wunder vo de natur choene zbestuuuuhne. es isch [View Full Entry]

By brettandshiv
May 13th 2006

Cuzco, Incan fortresses and Macchu Picchu

South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco

Cuzco

After an arduous bus ride, accompanied by the obligatory upset stomachs, we landed at Cuzco; once the Incan and now the Gringo capitol of South America. Despite being hounded by vendors and surrounded by loud tourists, we enjoyed the city tremendously. Built on Incan foundations, which are still visible around the city, its design is fascinating as you marvel at the Incan engineering, with 110 ton blocks fitted perfectly to each other, having been quarried miles away. This is magnificently evident at the monolithic Incan ruin "Sacsaywaman", overlooking the city. Im still baffled how the little [View Full Entry]

By Andie H
May 13th 2006

Amazonia

South America » Colombia » Leticia

Around the harbour in Leticia on the Amazon

Finally made it into the Amazon here in Colombia. I am in Leticia, a small town of about 30000 people on the banks of the world's longest, widest, deepest and most voluminous (?) river. From here its over 6000km to the river's mouth on the Atlantic coast of Brazil! The town is lovely, not beautiful or anything but with a very friendly, laid back atmosphere. The streets are full of scooters, mopeds and motorbikes which is unsurprising as there is nowhere far away enough you can drive to that would require a car and anyway they would have to be brought [View Full Entry]

The fruit market leads down to the river

Homes and businesses stand on stilts in the shallows at the edge of the Amazon.

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