Argentina
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Peso
- CAPITAL: Buenos Aires
- Pointless Pesos, slow service and the blue market. Read all about the struggle to change foreign currency and how scams are all too common .
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- Buenos Aires Blog
- Mendoza Blog
- Buenos Aires Blue Market
- Videos
- Photos (Buenos Aires)
- Photos (Mendoza)
- Photos (Iguazu Falls)
- Our Top 5 Disappointing Destinations
Bolivia
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Boliviano
- CAPITAL: Sucre
- Awful food, a road that tries to kill you and gasping for breath. Welcome to Bolivia.
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- La Paz Blog
- Uyuni and Salt Plains Blog
- Sucre Blog
- Santa Cruz Blog
- World’s Most Dangerous Road
- Videos
- Photos (Santa Cruz)
- Photos (Sucre)
- Photos (Salar De Uyuni)
- Photos (Death Road)
Brazil
- LANGUAGE: Portuguese
- CURRENCY: Real
- CAPITAL: Brasilia
- Great people, beaches, football and favelas. Stunning country which needs time to visit all it has to offer. Rio de Janeiro one of the world’s truly awe-inspiring destinations.
RELATED LINKS:
- Sao Paulo Blog
- Favela Life Rio De Janeiro Blog
- Rio de Janeiro Blog
- Foz de Iguazu Blog
- Destination 2016
- Videos
- Photos (Rio de Janeiro)
- Our Top 5 Destinations in the Americas
Chile
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Peso
- CAPITAL: Santiago
- A country with a difficult past but a proud and progressive nation. Santiago with the Andes as its backdrop is the stuff of picture postcards.
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Colombia
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Peso
- CAPITAL: Bogotá
- Drugs, violence and kidnapping…We saw none of it. Friendly people, spectacular scenery and long bus journeys!!!
RELATED LINKS:
- Cartagena Blog
- Cartagena to Bogota by bus Blog
- Bogotá Blog
- Cali, Pasto, Ipiales, Ecuador Border Crossing
- Destination 2017
- Videos
- Photos (Bogota)
- Photos (Cartagena)
- Photos (Sailing San Blas Islands)
- Our Top 5 Destinations in the Americas
Ecuador
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: US Dollar
- CAPITAL: Quito
- Colonial feel especially in Quito, reasonable prices and like Bolivia will take your breath away!
RELATED LINKS:
- Quito Blog
- Centre of the earth
- Videos
- Photos (Cuenca)
- Photos (Quito)
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Paraguay
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Guaraní
- CAPITAL: Asuncion
- Untouched, rarely visited and lacking any major tourist attractions. That’s what makes this place so great, well worth a visit.
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Peru
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Nuevo Sol
- CAPITAL: Lima
- A tourist favourite and rightly so. Magical Machu Picchu, lovely Lima and captivating Cusco. Needs to be seen to be believed.
RELATED LINKS:
- Mancora Blog
- Trujillo, Huanchaco Blog
- Lima Blog
- Nazca Blog
- Arequipa Blog
- Cusco Blog
- Machu Picchu History
- Machu Picchu Blog
- Puno Lake Titicaca Blog
- Why Visit Peru?
- Videos
- Photos (Puno & Lake Titicaca)
- Photos (Machu Picchu)
- Photos (Aguas Calientes)
- Photos (Mancora)
- Photos (Huanchaco)
- Photos (Trujillo)
- Photos (Lima)
- Photos (Nazca)
- Photos (Arequipa)
- Photos (Cusco)
- Our Top 5 Destinations in the Americas
Uruguay
- LANGUAGE: Spanish
- CURRENCY: Peso
- CAPITAL: Montevideo
- A great place to visit if you are in neighbouring Argentina and not just to stock up on US Dollars.. see Blue Market in our photo Photo Essays. Small country big personality.
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