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Map of South America

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 anne125
December 3rd 2009

Passage de la frontiére péruvienne South America » Peru » Tumbes » Tumbes

Le passage de la frontière entre l'Equateur et le Pérou s'est faite relativement facilement. Nous avons pris un bus entre Cuenca et Machala. Puis changement de bus pour faire Machala-Tumbes. Le bus nous attendait pendant les procédures habituelles des douanes. Nous sommes arrivés à Tumbes vers 4-5 heures de l'après midi, puis nous avons pris un combi-bus (mini bus de 16 personnes) pour Mancora, destination balnéaire favorite des péruviens. [View Full Entry]

By kiwisenorita
December 3rd 2009

Punta del diablo en URUGUAY and Brasil - Floripa and Sao Paulo South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Diablo

Been a while - couple of weeks since I have found time to sit down at a computer and get my thoughts down. I am now in Sao Paulo Brasil - mega city of Brasil and the major middle class commerce city as well. It may not be by the beach like Rio and the Paulistas may have a workacholic reputation but I think it has its charms. Anyway I´ll rewind a little bit. About 2 weeks ago I left the comfort of my apartment and boyfriend in Montevideo to travel North East to places that I´d heard were great on [View Full Entry]

By ChuckandRach
December 3rd 2009

Buenos Aires, second try at this South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

The port at La Boca

Second try at this travel blog thing. We initially tried the Fuzzytravel blog site and had very little luck uploading images so here we are. To be honest we liked the layout of the other one better but the interface was just awful. So we will put a link up from there to here and hopefully everyone can follow our wacky adventures over here. We are a day behind in the updates and will try to get caught up here. Rachel here! We're sitting in the bar at the hostel catching up on blog entries and planning our Patagonia trek. Tomorrow [View Full Entry]

By ChuckandRach
December 3rd 2009

Estancia... well kinda South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

Horse bone chair

This was something Rach really wanted to do and had hoped to drive out into the Pampas to see gaucho country firsthand, but we have changed our itinerary a million times since getting here and it doesn't look like we'll have time, so we decided to do it the most touristy way possible, ie by bus tour! The bus left our hostel at 9am and arrived at Santa Susana Ranch about two hours later. This is not a working ranch as there was not a cow in sight, but we had wine, parilla, a gaucho show with tango and impressive gaucho [View Full Entry]

By KatrinaJames
December 3rd 2009

Maria Reiche South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines

My plan to get a 3pm bus from Nazca to Arequipa backfired when the bus was cancelled so I ended up with an extra ten hours in Nazca. (The bus toilet had broken, which is important when your journey is eight hours!) So to use my time in an intelligent and informative way I unpacked my bikini and went to the Nazca Lines hotel and paid to use their swimming pool for the afternoon! It was rediculously hot and I had reached the end of my tether with the cat calling and whisteling from the Nazca men outside so the four [View Full Entry]

By KatrinaJames
December 3rd 2009

Colca Canyon South America » Peru » Arequipa » Colca Canyon

Alpacas!

This entry is mainly for Kirsty who has an unhealthy obsession with alpacas :P After getting an overnight bus from Nazca (finally!) I arrived in Arequipa on Monday at 7am. I had managed to catch up by email with a Canadian girl called Tanya I met in Lima, and she was also in Arequipa so I headed straight to her hostel. I arrived and found she had managed to book me onto the same bus as her to go into Colca Canyon that morning, so I did a quick rejig of my bags and sorted out some overnight kit, stashed my [View Full Entry]

By amazondan
December 2nd 2009

Amazon basin Jungle South America » Ecuador » East » Tena

View from the lodge

Travelled to the ShangriLa lodge in the jungle Ate soup at a roadside diner on the way, one of the girls had a surprise when she found a pigs tooth in it Fantastic views over the Rio Napa from the lodge Didn´t see too much wildlife apart from bugs! a few millipedes,snake, spiders etc plus the usual sandflies and mozzies. Did see a lot of indiginous animals at a wildlife sanctuary though. Stayed in wooden cabins, the lodge is in a beautifull setting Climbed a few waterfalls and did some jungle walks. Also managfed to fit in a few poker games, [View Full Entry]

By Zach Wegner
December 2nd 2009

Bittersweet South America » Chile » Arica & Parinacota » Arica

Hey all, I'm writing to you from an internet café in Chile's most northern city, Arica. It's a city of nearly 200,000 (or so say the Chileans). The bus ride here was 18 hours through the driest desert in the world. Intense to say the least. I am making my way north through Chile and Peru before heading back to the states after over 8 months in Chile teaching English. As with the last few post I probably won't say much but be sure that a lengthy reflection will be posted when I get back and settled. On November 25th I [View Full Entry]

By Alex and Sarah
December 2nd 2009

From the Land of Ice to the Land of Fire South America » Argentina

Cerro Torre and Glacier Grande - Los Glaciares National Park

Given the aspect ratio of Chile, it never takes long to leave the country, with the destination more often than not being Argentina. Leaving Puerto Natales, bound for El Calafate was no exception to this rule and within an hour we were at the border. A few hours later we arrived at our destination. El Calafate is one of those places that exists solely to service the tourist industry, specifically those tourists wanting to visit Los Glaciares National Park. You don’t need to be proficient in Spanish to guess that this national park is home to a number of glaciers. Despite [View Full Entry]

Spegazzini Glacier Los Glaciares National Park

Walking on Glacier Grande - Los Glaciares National Park

By Hewlett Blog
December 1st 2009

CUSCO AND THE SACRED VALLEY South America » Peru » Cusco

Young Indian Man

After a short flight from Lima we were in Cusco. The flight in through the Andes was spectacular and I wondered why such a big city was in such a remote location. Our hotel, Los Ninos II (The children), was beautiful, very simple but clean and modern. The hotel was set up to fund a charity whose purpose is to feed some 600 underprivileged children in Cusco and provide them with hot showers and somewhere to eat 3 times a day. One Saturday they held a birthday party for the children with dancing, games and food. It looked like great fun [View Full Entry]

Some of the large stone walls at Saqsaywaman

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