Visit South America

Name: Visit South America
Address: Ciudad del Cuzco, PE
Telephone: +19492998915
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Tour Operator based in Cusco, Peru. Have no idea where to start you travels in South America? A. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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13/08/2026

One of Peru’s most beloved desserts is a deep, glowing purple — and not a drop of dye goes into it.

It’s called mazamorra morada, a thick, spiced pudding somewhere between a porridge and a loose jelly. That unmistakable violet color comes entirely from maíz morado, a purple corn that has grown high in the Andes for thousands of years. Ancient Andean cultures treasured it long before the Incas, for its color, its nutrition, and its role in ceremony.

The dessert itself is a meeting of two worlds. The corn is native and ancient; the cinnamon, cloves, sugar, and dried fruit arrived with the Spanish. Together they became something new — the purple corn boiled until the water runs violet, then simmered with spices, brightened with lime, filled with pineapple and prunes and raisins, and thickened with sweet potato starch until it turns glossy and spoonable.

Peruvians love it best as el combinado — served in a single glass beside creamy white arroz con leche, purple and cream side by side. And while you’ll find it all year, it truly belongs to October, when Lima fills with the processions of El Señor de los Milagros and the whole city smells of cinnamon and purple corn.

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10/08/2026

Our hearts are with Colombia today.

A powerful earthquake has struck the country’s west, and communities in Chocó, Cali, Pereira, and beyond are hurting. Rescue teams are still working to reach people, and the country has declared a national emergency.

Colombia has given so many of us its warmth, its music, its mountains, and its people. Today we stand with those people.

To everyone affected, and to every Colombian carrying worry for someone they love: you are not alone. 🇨🇴

If you’re able to help, trusted organizations are already responding on the ground: the Colombian Red Cross (Cruz Roja Colombiana), Americares, and Direct Relief. Every bit of support reaches people who need it tonight.

Cruz Roja Colombiana Americares Direct Relief

05/08/2026

One of Brazil’s most beloved street foods is made from a single ingredient — a root that’s actually poisonous until you know what to do with it.

It’s called tapioca, and outside Brazil the name usually means the little pearls in bubble tea. In Brazil it’s something else entirely: a warm, chewy flatbread made purely from cassava starch. No flour, no eggs, no gluten. The dry starch hits a hot griddle and, with nothing to bind it, fuses into a soft disc all on its own — one of the small everyday miracles of Brazilian cooking.

The deeper story is in the root. Raw cassava is toxic, laced with natural cyanide, and thousands of years ago the Tupi and Guarani peoples worked out how to peel, grate, soak, and press it into something safe and delicious. They called it beiju. It’s one of the oldest foods in Brazil, older than the country itself.

Today it lives at the carrinho, the street cart, filled sweet or savory — coalho cheese and dried beef, or coconut and condensed milk — and eaten hot in your hands, especially across the north and northeast.

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03/08/2026

Peru’s national dance tells a story of love and pursuit, courtship set to music and carried on a fluttering white handkerchief.

It’s called the marinera, an elegant, flirtatious dance where the woman invites and slips away, the man follows with his hat and his gaze, and the entire drama plays out in the chase between them. Its roots reach back to the zamacueca, a coastal dance born from three cultures meeting on Peruvian soil — Indigenous, African, and Spanish.

But here’s the twist in its history. For most of the 1800s, the dance was known as la chilena, named for a similar dance in neighboring Chile. Then, when the War of the Pacific broke out in 1879, the Peruvian writer Abelardo Gamarra renamed it la marinera — in honor of Peru’s navy and the sailors lost in the war. A love dance became an act of patriotism.

Today the marinera’s home is Trujillo, on the northern coast, where every January thousands of dancers compete in a national contest — and where, in the grandest version of all, elegant Peruvian Paso horses dance the marinera too.

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30/07/2026

🚨 Only 8 spots left for our December 2026 departure! 🇧🇴

Experience the very best of Bolivia on this unforgettable 8-day small group adventure.

From the colorful streets and panoramic cable cars of La Paz to the sacred shores of Lake Titicaca and Isla del Sol, then deep into the breathtaking landscapes of the Uyuni Salt Flats, this itinerary is packed with the country’s most iconic experiences.

✨ Highlights include:
• La Paz city tour, Valle de la Luna & Valle de las Ánimas
• 2-day Lake Titicaca & Isla del Sol experience
• 3-day Uyuni expedition through salt flats, colorful lagoons, geysers, hot springs, deserts, and volcanoes
• Stargazing beneath some of the clearest skies on Earth
• Sunrise over the Salar de Uyuni
• Carefully selected hotels and unique lodges throughout the journey

💰 $2,185 USD per person
✅ Reserve your spot with just a $100 deposit

📅 December 2026 departure now has only 8 spots remaining. Additional departures are available in early 2027.

Don’t miss your chance to experience Bolivia during one of the most beautiful times of year with a small group of fellow travelers.

Comment “UYU” and we’ll send you the complete itinerary and booking details. 🇧🇴✈️

29/07/2026

Colombia’s national sport involves throwing a heavy metal disc at packets of gunpowder to make them explode. And yes, the beer is part of the game.

It’s called tejo. You launch a steel disc about eighteen meters across a hall at a clay board, aiming for a metal ring called the bocín, ringed with little paper pouches of gunpowder called mechas. Hit one and it detonates with a bang that rattles the whole room. Land the disc in the ring and explode a mecha at the same time — a moñona — and you’ve hit the perfect nine.

What most people don’t realize is how old it is. The Muisca were playing tejo more than 500 years ago in the highlands around Turmequé, using a disc of solid gold. When the Spanish came, they melted down the gold and, over the centuries, gunpowder found its way into the game. Today it’s less a sport than a night out: crowded halls, crates of beer, and the constant crack of small explosions.

It might be the most fun you can have in Colombia. And you don’t need to be good — you just need one lucky throw.

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28/07/2026

South America doesn’t do waterfalls quietly. It holds the tallest on Earth, the most powerful single drop in the world, and a 771-meter giant that outsiders didn’t even know existed until 2005.

The famous one is Iguazú, 275 cascades roaring along the Argentina–Brazil border, twice as wide as Niagara. But it’s only the beginning. Venezuela’s Angel Falls drops so far the water turns to mist before it lands. Guyana’s Kaieteur thunders down in a single column four times the height of Niagara. Peru’s Gocta hides in a cloud forest. In Ecuador you can walk straight into the spray of the Devil’s Cauldron, and in Chilean Patagonia a glacier pours its meltwater off a cliff at Queulat.

Then there are the ones most travelers miss: the three-tiered Ventanas de Tisquizoque falling from a cave in Colombia, the turquoise volcanic rapids of Petrohué beneath Osorno, and the thin ribbon of Buracão dropping into a slot canyon in Bahia that you have to swim through to reach.

One continent. Ten completely different ways for water to fall.

Which one would you chase first?

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26/07/2026

On a scatter of volcanic islands 1,000 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, animals evolved with almost no predators — and no reason to fear anything. The result is a place where much of the wildlife exists nowhere else on Earth.

The giant tortoise the islands are named after can live past 150 years. The marine iguana is the only lizard on the planet that swims in the ocean. The Galápagos penguin is the only penguin that lives north of the equator, and the flightless cormorant is the only one of its kind that traded flight for diving. There’s a hawk found on no other coast, an albatross that breeds on essentially one island, and a pink iguana so rare that science didn’t even know it existed until 2009.

And then there are Darwin’s finches — the unassuming little birds whose different beaks became the living textbook of evolution.

One honest note for the wildlife nerds: the blue-footed b***y didn’t make this list, because it isn’t actually endemic — it lives all along the Pacific coast. The ten here truly exist only in Galápagos.

Which one would you fly across the world to see? Comment DARWIN and we’ll send you our Galápagos voyages.

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23/07/2026

There is a word in Portuguese that English has never managed to translate.

Saudade is the ache of missing something you love. Not quite longing, not quite nostalgia, not quite grief — all three at once, which is why no English word can carry it.

It runs deeper than vocabulary. Portuguese has no verb for missing someone. Instead, saudade is a noun: something you have, something you carry. The word turns up in Portuguese poetry as far back as the thirteenth century, born from the Latin for solitude, and it has been the engine of Brazilian music ever since — bossa nova and samba circle it endlessly, and Gilberto Gil sang of it as the presence of absence.

Here’s the part that says everything about Brazil, though: saudade is a good thing. To tell someone tenho saudades de você is one of the most affectionate things you can say — your absence has weight. And there’s a cure, too: matar saudades, to kill the saudade, which is what happens the moment you go back.

Travelers know this one. You leave Brazil and something stays behind — a beach at dusk, a song from a bar you’ll never find again, the way strangers talk to you like family.

Share with someone you have saudades for!

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22/07/2026

The Easter Island “heads” aren’t heads at all. They have full bodies — buried underground for centuries. 🗿

That’s just the beginning of what makes Rapa Nui one of the strangest, most spellbinding places on Earth. Nearly a thousand giant statues, called moai, stand on an island 3,500 kilometers from the Chilean coast — one of the most remote inhabited spots on the planet. They were carved by the Polynesian Rapa Nui people between roughly 1250 and 1500, each one representing an ancestor. And almost all of them face inland, watching over the living rather than the sea.

The great mystery is how they moved statues as heavy as a school bus across the island with no wheels and no animals. Island tradition says the moai walked — and modern experiments prove a team really can rock one upright, step by step.

One more thing worth unlearning: the old story that the islanders destroyed their own environment and collapsed has been debunked by recent research. They actually sustained a small, thriving population for centuries. The real devastation came later, from European slave raids and disease.

Want to see them yourself? Come in early February for the Tapati festival, or the shoulder months for the moai in peace.

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