The biggest indigenous market in South America every Saturday, textiles and the Kichwa highlands.
Thermal baths under the Tungurahua volcano, the swing at the end of the world and the waterfall road.
Boats to the Ballestas islands of sea lions and penguins, and the desert reserve next door.
The base for Kuelap, the cloud-forest fortress, and the Gocta waterfall.
The trekking capital of the Cordillera Blanca: Laguna 69, the Santa Cruz trek and Huascaran.
The port on Lake Titicaca, the floating Uros islands and a homestay on Amantani.
The adobe city of Chan Chan, the Huacas of the Sun and Moon and the surf at Huanchaco.
One of the biggest cobbled squares in the Americas, whitewashed and unchanged since the 1570s.
The White City of colonial churches and the most solemn Holy Week processions in the Americas.
Coffee farms and the wax palms of the Cocora valley in a bright-painted Quindio town.
Stilt palafito houses and wooden churches on Chiloe island, with curanto cooked in the ground.
Colonial churches, a long beach and the observatories of the Elqui valley behind.
An adobe oasis in the driest desert on Earth: geysers, salt flats, flamingos and the clearest night sky.
The last stop before Torres del Paine, on a fjord of the Ultima Esperanza.
German-style houses on Lake Llanquihue under the perfect cone of Osorno volcano.
The Andes as backdrop to a capital of markets, Barrio Bellavista and the cable car up San Cristobal.
Southern right whales in the bay from June to December, and the Peninsula Valdes wildlife.
The Argentine side of Iguazu Falls, walkways to the Devil's Throat and toucans in the forest.
The town for the Perito Moreno glacier, where ice walls collapse into the lake all day.
The Flag Monument on the Parana, the birthplace of Messi and Che Guevara.
The southernmost city in the world, the end of the road and the port for Antarctic ships.
Colonial churches, the Inca mummies of the high-altitude museum and the Train to the Clouds.
A whitewashed colonial port between the rainforest and the sea, with schooner trips to the islands.
The model city of parks and bus lanes, the glass Botanical Garden and the train to the coast.
Thirteen baroque churches of the gold rush on steep cobbled hills, with Aleijadinho’s sculptures.
Forty-two beaches on one island, the surfing capital of Brazil and Azorean fishing villages.
The surfing town of the west coast since the 1968 world championships, with winter whales.
The Pearl of the South: the striped Parque de Bombas firehouse and the best art museum in the Caribbean.
Cuba's first town, cut off until 1965: cacao, coconut cooking and the flat-topped El Yunque.
A maze of streets built to confuse pirates, clay tinajones jars and a ballet company.
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