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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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Areas in South America: Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | Falkland Islands | French Guiana | Guyana | Paraguay | Peru | South Georgia | Suriname | Uruguay | Venezuela

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By HannaandDave
December 2nd 2008

Tozer Honeymoon - Week 12 & 13: Mancora & Galapagos Islands

South America » Ecuador » Galápagos

Our Boat - The Eclipse
This was the amazing boat we stayed on during our tour of the Galapagos. It held up to 48 passengers but wasn't filled to capacity for our cruise, more on that later.

So this is our final blog entry. Dave and I are back in London after 3 months away, adjusting to the cold but very much enjoying the fact we are home. But before we sign off from this blog we thought you might like to see some photos from the Galapagos and here about the last couples of weeks of our honeymoon. After our relaxing week in Lima we travelled up the Peruvian coast to a small beach resort town called Mancora, mainly to break up the long journey into Ecuador but also because it had come recommended by others travellers [View Full Entry]

By poliglot
December 2nd 2008

Cobija-Rio Acre-Bolpebra Long Boat Expedition

South America » Bolivia » Pando Department » Cobija

Another exciiting and worthwhile expedition is the one from Cobija,Pando,Bolivia, up the Acre River all the way to BOLPEBRA, which is the point where Bolivia,Peru and Brazil meet at a joint border. with Sao Francisco de Asis, in Brazil, and Inhapiri in Peru. Along the way you must stop to meet the Yaminawa ethnic group at Puerto Yaminawa, which is halve way up the Acre on the Bolivian side of the bank. Try to make this trip in the rainy season, December,January,or February, otherwise the Acre river will be to shallow and you will have to wade part of the way. [View Full Entry]

By Szabinski
December 2nd 2008

Cielo azul

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

Architecture
Not sure what this building is yet, but very cool.

Today was the first day we have seen sun. Supposedly it has been around 41 C before we got here, but we have only seen rainy, chilly, windy weather. Nuestra escuela de español es muy interesante, Marco quere comprar las empanadas. Today, we ate breakfast with our German classmates, soaked up some sun in the Parque Lavalle after class, hung out with too many pigeons in the Plaza of the National Congress, and made a tasty home-cooked dinner of split pea-potato-carrot-rice soup. Tomorrow we hope to go to the Ricoleta Cemetary after class. But we are also researching our next location. [View Full Entry]

By Coach Merrill
December 2nd 2008

Quito

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

Straddling the Equator

Day 1 (Saturday) - HOT Shower. Thank you Hotel Huasi. For $6 I got my own room with 3 beds and a shared bathroom, though there were only two other rooms occupied on the floor sharing two bathrooms. After showering, a much needed shave and some fresh clothes, I was off to deliver the rest of my clothes to a laundrymat, which laundered my whole bag for $8. My next stop was Jimi's hotel. It was late afternoon and we decided to spend our Saturday evening walking through the main plazas of Old Town before a much needed dinner. The main [View Full Entry]

By iang
December 2nd 2008

Best Photos

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » La Paz

Meat market
Cow lips anyone?

Hi folks, it had to happen, I am now getting ready to add some of the photos of our trip, these first ones are some of the things we saw in Lapaz. I will start to load some of the best for those who are interested. With 2000 mplus photos just of my own, Ruth has more plus hours of video I have alot to choose from and thenthere are the Wilson's photos. [View Full Entry]

By Nikki77
December 2nd 2008

Sao Paulo

South America » Brazil » São Paulo » São Paulo

I had been dreading going to Sao Paulo! Everything I had heard was that it was such a dangerous city. I shared a room with a girl in Ilha Grande for one night who was from there and she had told me about how she had been express kidnapped (this means someone getting into your car and taking you to a cash point). The only problem for her, is that it was not so much of an express kidnapping as there was a problem with the banks and they spent hours driving around to find one that was open!! She did [View Full Entry]

By monikita
December 2nd 2008

zelenoooo

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

japonski vrtovi

Parkov v Buenosu Airesu ne manjka, vendar glede na tako velik mesto in glede na to, da sem bila vajena zelenih barv Lipsenja in Slovenije hocem vec. Sicer nisem ob morju, ampak je vseeno prijetno gledati palme in vse te tropske rastline, da si lahko recem hmmmm i feel like....jah plaza je ene 300km stran!!! [View Full Entry]

By Louise and Daves tour du monde
December 1st 2008

The ugly face of capitalism

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Potosi

Rail wagons that needed to be avoided!

Back on the dubious buses and yes, we had the obligatory breakdown on a mountain pass and annoying kids on the seat behind, screaming and kicking, but after a beautiful and eventful climb through the Bolivian Andes we arrived in the highest city in the world; Potosi. Sat in front of the city is an almost perfect, conical mountain that is savagely scarred. From base to summit it is shredded by hundreds of years mining and the result is an ugly heap, but this is the reason people come to Potosi. It was once one of the richest cities in the [View Full Entry]

By knappman
December 1st 2008

Punta Tomba

South America » Argentina

honey I think it's hatching

The wind is still blowing a gale but we are on a 4 hour round trip bus ride to see the penguin colony in Punta Tomba to the south. We are not here at exactly the best time but close enough to see tons of birds sitting on their eggs in little scrubland hovels. In a couple weeks little chicks will be running around getting underfoot and breaking things. The male penguins arrived in September and made the nests or redecorated last years nest. You see this is the attraction for the female. Kinda like when you were in high school. [View Full Entry]

By Dyl
December 1st 2008

Brazil - Football - what else?

South America » Brazil » Rio de Janeiro » Rio de Janeiro » Copacabana

Our flight to Brazil arrived around midnight and this time we were met with no problem by our Guide Gus who took us to the Hotel Augustus via an ATM. We slept. On Sunday we went to the Maracana Stadium to watch Flamengo play Goias in their penultimate match of the seaseon. Currently in fifth place Flamengo really needed to win in order to improve their chances of qualifying for the Copa Libertadores de América. We arrived two hours before kick off to a stadium empty apart from a few hundred fans how had arrived early to watch an under 20s [View Full Entry]

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