Top Trips to Take in South America
Senior Travel Writer
Amazon or Andes? Glaciers or Galápagos? Let these insider-led Culture Trips be your guide.
South America is a land of superlatives, home to the world’s second-longest river in the Amazon, its driest desert in the Atacama and its highest body of water in Lake Titicaca, straddling Peru and Bolivia. But it also defies easy definition in the great wilderness of Patagonia, which sweeps down the spine of the Andes and spills out into Chile and Argentina. So where to start? Let these expert-led trips be your southern cross, steering the way to all the continent has to offer, from the top of the Amazon to the tip of Argentina.
Additional reporting was contributed by Siobhan Grogan and Gethin Morgan.
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