South America

From Patagonia to the Amazon — start with Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, from our own trips.

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🧭 Why Visit

South America is the continent of superlatives — the Amazon, the Andes, Patagonia — and our guides start with its two great city gateways: Rio's beaches beneath Corcovado and Buenos Aires' boulevards under blooming jacarandas, both from our own trips.

🏛️ A Little History

Portuguese Brazil and Spanish everywhere else: two colonial paths that produced wildly different giants. Independence swept the continent in a single generation under Bolívar and San Martín, and its cities kept the European grandeur with the volume turned up.

💡 Did You Know?

South America contains the world's largest rainforest, longest mountain range, highest waterfall, and driest desert — and in Ushuaia, the southernmost city on Earth, where cruise ships leave for Antarctica.

Our South America City Guides

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Rio de Janeiro

City guide from our own December week — live tours and honest advice
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Buenos Aires

City guide from our own spring trip — live tours and honest advice

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