Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Arrange your Peru Tours on South America Trips

You can arrange your South America Travel Trips and this is one of the possible day’s adjustments for itineraries to schedule alterations of Peru Tours.

1. Beautiful Lima – Arrival in Lima, Peru, meet your local tour guide who give you a briefing about your travel program for trip. It’s Peru’s bustling city potent mix of colonial architecture, superb museums, Inca gold and glamorous shops which are build on both sides of the river Rimac.

2. Fascinating Cuzco – Next day move to explore Cuzco through flight, the old capital of the Inca Empire, including the Cathedral and the Korikancha with the nearby ruins of Sacsayhuaman, Tambomachay and Qenqo.

3. Pisak, Sacred Valley – Pisac is a superb Inca fortress with temple ruins that overwhelm with their most magnificent Inca masonry. It’s a challenge to survive under difficult climatic conditions. You can see the complete irrigation system in the mountains, canals cut out of the sheer rock.

4. Reach Machu Picchu – Early in the morning you are transfer to the station for the train travel to Machu Picchu. The journey brings you to Machu Picchu, the “Lost City of the Incas” with its fabulous architecture and astonishing landscapes on Peru Travel. You can choose one of the restaurants for dinner here.


5. Train to Puno – Another interesting train tour to Puno is waiting for you to watch mountains go by as high as 20 000 feet, snow capped & majestic.


6. Lake Titicaca – In the evening you check in to the Hotel at the shores of lake Titicaca. Next day you can explore the amazing view of Lake Titicaca and it’s floating islands with astonishing pre-Columbian funeral towers of Sillustani in a beautiful setting on a peninsula in lake Umayo.


7. Tour of La Paz – Enjoy a city tour of the Bolivian capital, La Paz. Visit to the Plaza Murillo (the main square) bordered by the cathedral and by the Government Palace. No visit to La Paz is complete without mercado de Hechiceria, the Witches Market also called Mercado de las Brujas. Then for a change of scenery we come to the Valley of the Moon. The setting is in a rural and peaceful landscape that contrasts wonderfully with the constant hum of the city of La Paz.

The Tour ends up here and you transfer to the hotel or return to the airport for continues with another tour.


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Monday, April 26, 2010

Travel to Peru

A trip to Peru is fascinating and magical. Travel Peru’s varied scenery, from desert coastline to lush mountains and fertile valleys, sampling its tasty seafood and absorbing its ancient culture among the most interesting experiences in South America. Sightseeing in Peru is an other-worldly experience. It offers a plethora of scenic landscapes as well as a cultural mix that is evident in both the architecture and customs. The first taste makes the traveler curious to know more.

Visit Machu Picchu, the most recognized settlement of the Incas, located in the southern Peruvian Andes in a unique and mystical setting. Touring this holy place is to witness an archaeological site with architectonic and engineering innovations which have survived the ages. There are no words to describe the magnificence of such a scene which has become one of the most highly sought destinations for tour operators in Peru.

Cordillera Blanca is the perfect place for trekking, climbing, cycling, rafting or to simply enjoy the highest mountain in Peru. Huascaran National Park includes the whole Cordillera Blanca above 4.000 m and due of its character of Unesco World Biosphere Reserve, visiting this part of central Peru is a dream comes true for nature and archeology lovers.



The famous Nazca lines, located in the southwest of the country, are a set of gigantic ancient zoomorphic and geometric figures, some simple and others more complex. All images are mapped onto the surface and can be seen in their entirety only from the air. There are more questions than answers about how between 200 BC and 700 inhabitants of this desert were able to draw such immense images on the ground. Close by is located Cerro Blanco, which, with a height of 2078 m is the highest dune in the world, an ideal destination for sand boarding and paragliding in Peru.

Peru is a country with a strong indigenous tradition that can be seen in the colorful markets where each item can be viewed as a small masterpiece. Pisac, a small town located in the Sacred Valley, is one of the best ways to see how the Quechua tradition is experienced today. Pisac´s Sunday Market is well-known and is ideal for having direct contact with locals who are selling their products. At the same time, Pisac is an ideal starting point for tour of Peru, visiting archaeological sites, breathtaking scenery and the local flora and fauna.

Travel to Peru is discovering new tastes and scents, unique music, hallowed stories and congenial people. Ancient history and modern life run together in a poetic and captivating way, resulting in a beautiful country hard to leave behind.


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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Vacation Trip to South America Destinations

Imagine waking up one day and noticing that your 5 senses more alive than ever. You are discovering a new world of sensations and just when you think everything is a dream, you realize that you have landed in South America – your dream is reality! Travel throughout South America is discovering a world of sensations that has no limit. Roughly speaking, there are 4 areas that have been formed by history, geography and cultural expressions.

The tropical Andes were the home of the Inca Empire which settled in the territory of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. A visit Machu Picchu, the most recognized settlement of the Incas, located in the southern Peruvian Andes in a unique and mystical setting is a must. Touring this holy place is to witness an archaeological site with architectonic and engineering innovations which have survived the ages. There are no words to describe the magnificence of such a scene which has become one of the most highly sought destinations while Travel to Peru.

In ancient times, the Spanish conquerors made their way on horseback through the Andes, leaving in each small town strong colonial spurs such as a churches and monasteries worthy of a visit. The conquerors didn’t however remove all the indigenous structures, and today you can find communities that have been resistant to the West‘s influence, and still practice their own languages and other cultural aspects, maintaining the local ethnic identity.

The Amazon Rainforest, the world’s lung, covers territory from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. The Amazon River is the longest in the world at around 6800 km, with the Amazon basin stretching to an area over 7,050,000 km2. The Amazon rain forest is a green world…wet, wild and enigmatic. The most common way to explore the rain forest is to stay in an Amazon lodge or doing a river cruise on the Amazon. Cruising the Amazon River is a unique life experience: from the observation deck it is possible to scan the magnificent tangle of vegetation at the water’s edge. The banks are covered by dense rainforest and the absence of human voices is filled by a chorus of birds and frogs. Observing pink river dolphins and a large collection of exotic birds is on the menu every day. Hearing and seeing howler monkeys along with a morning serenade of toucans sends shivers down one’s spine. Nearly all cruises make a stop for a rain forest walk where you can get a good start on understanding Amazon ecology.

Brazil has it’s own highlights: Wildlife in the wetlands of the Pantanal, which it shares with Paraguay, the beaches along the Atlantic ocean, the Black Cultural Heritage of Salvador da Bahia, Colonial Art and History in Minas Gerais, magnificent Rio de Janeiro, the South American powerhouse São Paulo, and the Atlantic Rainforest mountains. This big nation occupies 47% of the territory of South America and is so diverse that is hard to believe one single country can house so many different options. Nowadays Brazil is experiencing an important economic growth due to innovative state programs so now is a great opportunity to see how this country is driving its way to prosperity, significantly raising the standard of living for many Brazilians.

The Southern Cone is very European. Spanish and Italians began arriving in the area during the 1880s bringing its way of life to South America. Then a second wave of European immigrants arrived before and after the WWII as refugees. The similar terrains of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay became the place where many immigrants began to build up their lives again after difficult times in their own countries. With this background, Buenos Aires has become an exquisite mixture of cultural influences with the melancholy of Tango as a soundtrack. Exquisite wine and the excellent cuisine have evolved into a welcome greeting for the most demanding gourmet traveler. European influence can be felt in many aspects of culture: body language, architecture, ways of living and viewing life, differing significantly from the intensity that exists in most tropical areas.

South American Tours – Brazil

Travel to Brazil is like being in perpetual motion. It’s up to you… dancing samba at the world famous Carnival in Rio de Janeiro or experiencing capoeira on the beach with music that evokes its African fight-dancing origins. The musical rhythm is transported into sports…playing volleyball on the beach or watching a football match at Maracana stadium can be more than a sport and become an eternal dance. The pace of Brazil is unique and deep, earning the title given by some as the sexiest and most vibrant nation on the planet, a magnet that attracts thousands of visitors every year.

Brazil's natural wealth is felt in all directions. The vast wealth of the Brazilian Amazon passes through its economic center of Manaus. The city is the door to the Amazon basin, attracting visitors from throughout the world on an Amazon River cruise or to one of several Amazon lodges into the surrounding jungle. A great diversity of wildlife can even be found on the edge of Manaus, home to a variety of rare animals, such as the Pied tamarin, an endangered primate.


Straddling Brazil's border with Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal is the world's largest freshwater wetland, a Texas-sized seasonally flooded plain drained by the tributaries of the Paraguay River. About 80 percent of the Pantanal is in Brazil. In the wet season (Nov-Apr), rivers swell and spill over to cover vast alluvial plain for months. As the waters recede (from May onwards), the land begins to dry and the situation slowly reverses. In winter (Jun-Aug), temperatures can fall at night, however the summers are hot and humid. The annual floods, fed by tropical rains, create a giant nursery for aquatic life, including 260 species of fish, from the giant pintado to the tiny, voracious piranha. The receding waters attract a great influx of birds and other animals - one of the hemisphere's greatest natural phenomena. Over 650 bird species have been spotted, including the hyacinth macaw, jabiru stork, plumbeous ibis, both blue-throated and red-throated piping guans, rhea, toucans, cuarasow and roseate sponbill, making birding in the Pantanal a must. Another impressive sight is the jacaré (Yacare Caiman), a tame relative to the alligator.

After a tour of Rio de Janerio, follow the Route of Gold as it rambles along rugged mountains from the beautifully preserved colonial gold mining towns of Ouro Preto and São João del Rei to the ancient seaport of Paraty. This bounty of gold provided the wealth to build the royal colonial seat of Rio de Janeiro as well as the Old World capital, Lisbon. The richest deposits of gold ever found in the Americas even financed England's Industrial Revolution!

Traveling around this country is more than just sightseeing in Brazil! It is having a time to smell every tropical flower and caipirinha in hand, get to know the warm-hearted Brazilian people!

Select one of pre-designed Brazil tours or a custom tour of Brazil and all South America travel! For more information you can visit our online resource at Southamerica.travel



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