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| | Peru has been a home of human civilization since 6,000 BC and was the seat of the Inca empire. Along with the relics of this ancient civilization, Peru is still home to myriad ethnic groups, making it an especially interesting place to visit. Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas", is one of the most familiar of Peru's famous historical sites and also provides a good hike for the more active... |  |
| Like many South American countries, Argentina's history is a story of struggle between indigenous people, Spanish conquistadors and British colonists. But when Napoleon overthrew King Ferdinand VII in 1816 Argentinians saw the opportunity to take control of their own country. Since then Argentina has been controlled by fragile democracies, including that of the popular reformer Juan Peron and his... |  |
| Given the historical imprint left on Chile by the Spanish, it is apropos that the country stretches in elongated relief alongside the southern coastline of South America, just as a painting by El Greco slinks vertically along the Cathedral walls in Toledo, Spain. Pre-Conquest Chile was inhabited in the south by the Araucanian Indians, and to the north by the Incan empire. Spanish subjugation... |  |
| While Hugo Chavez's rabid populism and anti-American rants certainly can't have increased travel from the USA, Venezuela is a lush, resource rich ( petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, bauxite, other minerals, hydropower, diamonds,) South American nation. Bordering both the North Atlantic and the Caribbean as well as Colombia and Guyana, Venezuela has a population of 26,000,000 citizens,... |
| City of God certainly didn't do any favors for the Brazilian tourism board. That violent exposé into the brutal theatre of dilapidated nihilism, while an important piece of visceral film making, certainly couldn't have served as a very effective advertisement to world-weary tourist dollars. Fortunately, there is an extremely large chance that your own trip to Brazil will come and go without you... |  |
| The landlocked, centralized, South American nation state of Bolivia took its name from Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios. Fortunately, it did not take on his full name. The 'Liberator' Bolívar left his name to a lush tropical and sometimes semiarid country bounded by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Peru, and Chile, which is almost enough neighbors to match Bolviar's... |  |
| Forget about the provincial 'Four Corners' rest stop of the USA's southwest, in Ecuador you can balance on the globe at Mitad del Mundo -- a monument dedicated to the equator where you can straddle the line between the northern and southern hemispheres. While there enjoy the local museum dedicated to Ecuador's culture. Don't miss the adjacent science-based museum that demonstrates several... |
| A patchwork of South American rain forest, dizzying waterfalls and European adventurism. Guyana is a little known, politically odd, and combustible combination of peoples. While the human geography is a bit unstable, the natural topography is pure unbounded splendor. A trip to Kaieteur Falls is compulsory, they are South America's most breathtaking example of hydrated gravity. Sandwiched... |
| Who said British Imperialism was dead? The Falkland Islands- or Islas Malvinas, depending on your hemispheric bias, were only the latest reminder that the Queen's guards don't all just hang out in stoic repose around Buckingham. Composed of two main islands, the imaginatively named East and West-Island, and 200 smaller bits, this hot little corner of real estate is around 400 clicks east of the... |
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