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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 Louise and Daves tour du monde
December 1st 2008

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

South America » Bolivia » Potosí Department » Salar de Uyuni

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Most say "Machu Picchu is an absolute must", many say "Iguazu is unmissable". The Galapagos Islands, the rainforest and others are usually close behind and while I find comparing these sites in South America both difficult and also almost irrelevant and pointless, after seeing the Uyuni Salt Flats and Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, it boggles the mind why they aren't raved about on the same scale that the other gringo 'must see' sites are. My opinion, after seeing this wilderness, is that if they cannot be compared on a par with Iguazu and Machu Picchu then it can only exceed them. [View Full Entry]

By lachlanhannan
December 1st 2008

Lima (aka drinkinabag)

South America » Peru » Lima » Lima » Lima

Now Andrew writing as lachlan got too tired standing by the computer. The flight in to lima was uncrowded and ultimately very comfortable. After clearing our first customs in a foreign language we were rushed off to our hotel through the sprawling mass of suburbia called Lima, which on first sight was a little daunting especially given the interpretation some of the locals took to the road rules, driving on the wrong side of the road and launching in to all merging opportunities. Also a little disconcertingly there were masses of riot police and tanks near the centre of the city. [View Full Entry]

By knappman
December 1st 2008

Back in BA

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

lunch with the ambassador and wife

Lots has happened since arrival back in BA. Don’t know if we will ever be able to get back into my one challenge a day life when we return to Cool. And I am so far behind in letting you know about our life here. Maybe I will just continue this story after I return. But let me fast forward ahead to a timely subject and then I will return to the humdrum life we live here. I don’t know where you were for Thanksgiving but we took advantage of an invitation to the American Club of Buenos Aries for a [View Full Entry]

By knappman
December 1st 2008

Iguazu Falls

South America » Argentina

mate anyone

I don’t know how we fit any class time in with all these excursions around the country. We are off to the north today, Iguazu Falls is the place. Remember we live in the southern hemisphere now so going north get hotter and more humid. However the weather cooperated and we had a relatively cool stay. Took a two hour airplane ride from the domestic airport located 25 pesos away from our place in Ricoletta. Not far. Processed into a nice hotel about 4KM outta town. We grabbed a taxi for town as soon as we got settled. This would be [View Full Entry]

paraguay, brazil, argentina, japan, germany, united nations conference in progress

By Bellavista
December 1st 2008

Sad to leave South America...

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago

We have had a more restful time in Chile and it is a beautiful country. We flew from the desert to the Lakes District, a lovely flight and from the plane you could see the spine of the Andes with volcanos peaking through the clouds, all the way down to Patagonia. We landed in Puerto Varas, a picture postcard town which reminded me of Cabot Cove in the Murder She Wrote series. I kept expecting Angela Landsbury to pop up at any time... It was very refreshing to be at sea level after 4 weeks at high altitude and lovely to [View Full Entry]

By lachlanhannan
December 1st 2008

Dessert?

South America » Peru » Ica » Huacachina

So we got to ICA and were imediatly taken up by Jose and convince that we should sleep at the hostal that he worked for. We rode to huacacina and my first impression was that ... awesome. (Its a good sentence andrew shut your face). We had some food in ica at a locals resturaunt for 7 soles each for two corses. The first was a soup with chicken feet and liver and heart, andrew was apparently to full to eat his heart. Upon calling home i discovered that mum and dad had been tracking my progress and even knew what [View Full Entry]

By Blairs
December 1st 2008

96 days, and a fair few stories

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

Well, I realised I am back on the backpacking circuit after 7 weeks working in Cusco, Peru. Which happened to be some of the happiest weeks of my travels, if not my life. It was a hell of a lot of fun working in a hostel bar for 2 months, I met so many awesome people, partied almost every night, and spent pretty much no money. Can´t complain at all. It spurred too many stories for me to recount really, but I think I covered almost every base of travel stories which I´m sure will be recounted numerous times upon my [View Full Entry]

By Dr Pepper
December 1st 2008

A stay in the desert

South America » Chile » Antofagasta Region » San Pedro de Atacama

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Next stop San Pedro de Atacama Arrived bleary eyed to a warm sunny morning in San Pedro and stumbled way to the hostel. Got chatting to some people in the hostel and joined them for breakfast, turned out the hostel was organizing a trip that evening to sand-board at night, decided to signed up and then spent the rest of the day chilling around San Pedro and the hostel. The evening’s boarding was brilliant, it was not quite full moon, but it was bright enough to see with out any trouble. We drove off in a mini van into to [View Full Entry]

By monikita
December 1st 2008

Argentinci..ljudje in smisel za humor

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

gledalisce na prostem

Na splosno bi lahko rekla, da so ljudje tukaj super prijazni, vljudni in me se vedno presenecajo. Sedim na metroju in nasproti mene trije najstniki, tisti, ki se imajo za zlobne, ki se rezijo vsakemu, spucajo komentarje, da jih vsi slisijo, se vcasih spustijo v ustrahovanje ipd...pac najstniska pamet in samo cakas na tvojo postajo, da gres cimprej ven. In nato vstopita dve starejsi gospe in ti trije fantje nenadoma utihnejo, vstanejo in povabijo señorite, da se usedejo. Me je skor kap!!! Priznam, da ze malo pozabljam kako se stvari odvijajo v Sloveniji, ampak v Madridu vecina gleda v tla ali [View Full Entry]

By JasmineT
December 1st 2008

Copacabana Cafe

South America » Bolivia » Cochabamba Department » Cochabamba

Café prep
The essentials: Copacabana Café and the three separate parts of the cafetera.

So I thought I would upload some pics of how I start my days here with Copacabana Cafe. First I take the cafetero apart and put water in the bottoom, Copacabana cafe in the middle and then put the parts together. Then I put the cafetero on a burner on low. Antonio told me ¨Café hervido es café perdido¨ which means boiled cafe is ruined cafe so I try to make sure the cafe never heats up too fast. The coffee is also really strong for me so I heat up hot water at the same time. When the cafe is [View Full Entry]

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