Rio de Janeiro is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and also Brazil's capital from 1763 to 1961. Blessed with a wonderful natural setting wedged between mountains and the sea, watched from above by Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado Mountain, and surrounded by tropical forests and lagoons, Rio is one of the world's top tourist destinations. It is the gateway to beach resorts such as Buzios, colonial Paraty, and Angra do Reis.
One of the largest cities in the world, Buenos Aires is also the capital of the tango and football, the gaucho and the asados. In order to catch the spirit of Buenos Aires, walk along the streets in downtown to see its elegant shop windows, take a coffee in a sidewalk café, and visit the residential neighborhoods, where the old buildings alternate with the most modern constructions. This is a city with plenty to offer for all the tastes and tourist needs.
The city is divided into three main areas: Modern Panama, Old Panama, and Colonial Panama. Modern Panama, is where the financial and commercial districts are located. It offers a breathtaking skyline and an immense infrastructure of hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs. Old Panama, is located two miles from the center of Panama City and contains the ruins of the original Spanish capital. Colonial Panama is the historic center of todays capital.
Salvador, the capital city of the Bahia State, is an unique place where a magical air intermingles with reality to form a unique harmony. It begins with religious syncretism and continues to its striking setting of narrow streets and steep hills, forming the upper and lower city. The region has a perfect warm climate, rich folklore, and a fertile environment.
Deep blue lakes, towering mountains, glaciers, climbing, boating, exploring, dining and just full relaxing in Bariloche, the urban center of the Argentine Lake District, make this an incomparable vacation destination - The scenery alone leaves most people breathless!.
Bariloche, the most breathtaking natural environment Argentina has to offer, it resembles European Alpine Resorts and is the base for exploring Nahuel Huapi National Park since it?s located in the southern coast of Nahuel Huapi Lake, only a 2-hour flight from Buenos Aires.
The Switzerland of South America, Bariloche, as it is called, offers a singular variety of hotels and first class tourist facilities. The typical constructions of stone and wood are interwoven with the most modern architecture, thus giving the city a very special touch. Moreover, the surrounding Lake District, where the provinces of Neuquen and Rio Negro kiss the Chilean Border, straddles three distinct climate zones and flaunts four full seasons of outdoor fun expeditions.
This is the capital of the country and the economic, administrative, and political heart of Costa Rica. San Jose serves as a transfer point to other regions in Costa Rica. The town offers attractions such as: the National Museum, the del Jade Museum and the Oro Precolombino Museum. It's also ideal for quick vacation organized tours around to several nearby attractions. This way you can see and enjoy the natural wonders of Costa Rica but have a more cosmopolitan experience al night.
Founded in 1543, La Antigua was once the third most important Spanish city in the Americas. The city, built on a grid plan inspired by the Italian Renaissance, amassed a number of superb monuments in less than three centuries. Its rich colonial heritage (the town is packed with churches, monasteries, and convents), famous Easter celebrations, three surrounding volcanoes, and abundance of flowers, make it a Mecca for tourists.
The once-called City of Kings, founded in 1535, is the gateway to Peru's main tourist attractions. It is a city of fine museums and magnificent pre-Columbian collections, such as the Gold Museum, the National Archaeology and Anthropology Museum, the Amaro Museum, Museo de la Nacion etc. It is the gastronomic capital of South America with outstanding restaurants. Peruvian cuisine is world-renowned. Shopping for locally crafted textle items such as sweaters, rugs, etc is a pleasure.
Stand in awe of the Center of the World, gateway to the lost city of Machu Picchu and the extraordinary Inca Trails, with its one of a kind architecture plus a profound feeling of history that equals one of the most seductive cities of the planet: Cuzco.
Radiant by day, Cuzco's main square dresses itself up for a party at night, soft yellow lights illuminating lovely arcades and the head turning facades of the Cathedral and the Church of the Company of Jesus.
Massive Inca's stone walls line most of Cuzco's central streets and form foundations of colonial and modern buildings. This is a great city to spend a few days with plenty to do. Leaving the city limits one comes face to face with Sacsayhuaman, a little farther along there are other sacred sites like Qenko or Tambomachay.
Santiago is an architectural collage of old Spanish colonial charm, European elegance, and North American suburbia, populated with five million amiable Chileans. However, the city lacks the Indian markets prevalent in other Andean countries. In the city's center there are pedestrian malls with cobblestone walkways lined with shopping galleries, fountains, cafes, movie theaters, ice cream shops, and banks. There is an intense activity in the arts and also an exciting nightlife.
The rivers and volcanoes in the south of Chile form a scenario of wide valleys, with a steep drop toward the Pacific Ocean, and environment surrounded by large lakes, also the region is characterized by cities that show signs of a large European immigration, especially German, like Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt, which have incorporated features of this culture into their architecture and gastronomy.
This is the point of departure or arrival for the Lake Crossing, renowned as one of the most beautiful trips in the area, where tourists gather at the Terminal to board the buses that will take them to Petrohue, starting this lovely journey sailing through emerald lakes and winding roads across the Andes mountain range.
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