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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...
Torres del Paine: Trekking Guide to Patagonia's Crown Jewel
At the far southern tip of Chilean Patagonia, where the Andes crumble into the sub-Antarctic winds of the Southern Ocean, stands one of the most dramatic landscapes on Earth. Torres del Paine National Park takes its name from three ancient granite mo...
Salar de Uyuni: Visiting the World's Largest Salt Flat
There is a place in southwestern Bolivia where the earth becomes a mirror. After rain, a thin layer of water transforms a 10,582-square-kilometre expanse of salt into a near-perfect reflection of the sky — clouds floating below your feet, horizon dis...