Though Machu Picchu, found in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, is obviously a huge draw for tourists to Peru, there are numerous other archeological sites in Peru and other countries in South America that are also very impressive, but are not visited nearly as often. I will mention a few of the major ones and several recently discovered minor ones that come to mind.
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We have been busily updating our website for 2024, and in doing so have added quite a few new tour options in Peru and Colombia that we think are pretty exciting.
We had stopped offering tours in Venezuela a few years ago when there were a lot of problems and tensions were high between the governments of Venezuela and the U.S. But we noticed that people were still looking at our Venezuela tour pages and one person who has been operating tours there for over 30 years told us that tourists were still coming.
I attended the Adventure Travel Trade Association's event in Arequipa, Peru in early December. While one of the focuses was to promote travel to less visited and less well-known destinations, another focus was on how to use tourism to empower the local indigenous communities in positive ways, if they desire it.
I attended Colombia's 2023 Nature Mart Conference in September 2023 and participated in one of the 6 tour options that were offered prior to the conference in various regions of the country. Each of these focused on community-based initiatives geared to conserve the environment and to help the local people. This is keeping in line with the government's emphasis on Regenerative, instead of Sustainable tourism. The graphic below shows the difference.
Are you planning a trip to the Amazon and want to learn about the plants and animals that you might see? Or do you want to learn about the history of exploration in the Amazon - from the adventures of the explorers to the knowledge that they gained?
In the over 20 years that I have been involved in travel to the Amazon, here are some of the books that I have found to be fascinating reading sources. Matteo Preabianca recently interviewed our agent Jorge Rodriguez for an article published on June 19 in the Italian publication Agoravox. In the article, Jorge talks about his latest article "Environmental protection in the Amazonian communities of western Peru".
If your browser can't translate the article, it says: In recent days you may have read or heard about an airplane crash in the Colombian Amazon and the search for 4 missing children that were on that flight. That might lead you to worry about how safe it is to fly into the Amazon. Let me explain a few things to ease your fears.
You may be pondering where to go on your next vacation, since it's getting close to summertime in the northern hemisphere. Let's take a look at what your interests are and see what places you might consider.
Buenos Aires and wine are probably the things that most people think about when the subject of Argentina comes to mind. Since almost a third of the countries' population lives in Buenos Aires and the wines of Argentina have become so renowned, it is easy to understand why, but the country has so much more to offer visitors.
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AuthorJim has been an agent for over 20 years and has specialized in South America for much of that time Archives
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