South America Articles
Articles about destinations in South America
Suriname: South America's Most Diverse and Least Visited Nation
Suriname is South America's smallest sovereign nation, its only Dutch-speaking country, and one of the continent's most ethnically diverse societies on Earth. It is also one of the most overlooked destinations in a hemisphere full of overlooked desti...
Machu Picchu and the Inca Empire: History, Mysteries, and How to Visit
Nearly 600 years after its construction and 113 years after its re-introduction to the outside world by Hiram Bingham, Machu Picchu remains unexplained in ways that continue to fascinate. Not unexplained in the tabloid sense — the Inca built it, prob...
Paraguay's Hidden Culture: Guaraní Language, Terere, and the Soul of South America's Forgotten Country
Paraguay is the country that South America travel guides consistently underwrite — small, landlocked, bypassed by most travellers on the Bolivia–Argentina trail. This is a mistake. Paraguay is one of the continent's most culturally distinctive nation...
Guyana's Rupununi: Wilderness Travel in South America's Last Frontier
Guyana is the kind of place that serious nature travellers seek and almost no one else finds. It covers 215,000 square kilometres of northeastern South America and is 80% intact tropical forest — one of the highest percentages in the world for a coun...
The Galápagos Islands: Darwin, Evolution, and One of the World's Great Wildlife Encounters
In September 1835, a 26-year-old naturalist named Charles Darwin stepped ashore on the Galápagos Islands and began making observations that would, over the following decades, reshape humanity's understanding of life on Earth. Nearly 200 years later, ...
Colombia Travel Guide 2026: What's Changed and What to Expect
Colombia's transformation is one of travel's genuinely extraordinary stories. A country that western tourists were firmly advised against visiting in the 1990s and early 2000s has become one of South America's most compelling destinations — drawing m...