Where the Carnival Never Ends ? South America Holidays for Every Taste

A lot of countries, or continents, like to sell itself as a kind of one stop tour of the whole world – where a traveller simply has to book in at immigration and wander around to experience every pleasant aspect the world has to offer, all in one place. While most of those claims are the usual overblown advertising hyperbole, there is one continent to which the statement sticks convincingly – South America. A land so diverse and enjoyable it’s a wonder anyone who goes there ever leaves.

What makes South America vacations different – what makes them able to deliver where all the rest only get halfway – is the astonishing mixture of wilderness and intense civilisation the continent enjoys. Think South America and one instantly gets mental pictures of Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City – the kind of places where the words “bustling nightlife” and “non-stop entertainment” simply fail to fit the bill. These are cities where life is a carnival, where food and drink are king, and where nothing stops going on. The Latin equivalents to the Big Apple – the Big Chili, perhaps. And there are two of them. That’s double the fun, double the wild nightlife and double the amount of incredible municipal sights to see. And that’s only the start of South America holidays‘ claim to fit everything under the sun into one trip.

South America vacations give the traveller access to the most important, the most impressive and the best preserved historic sights in the world. If a person only gets to see one ancient civilisation in his or her lifetime, it really ought to be the Aztecs, the Incans – the crazy, hazy, utterly terrifying settlements that ruled the whole of South America centuries before Westerners had even been heard of. Check out Machu Picchu for the world’s prime example of preserved ancient grandeur; marvel at the Cloud People, who still live close to the city’s ruins; and then turn and drop the jaw at the awesome beauty of mountains and rainforest, stretching off into a mist covered landscape. That, again, is just one of the sights South America holidays are stuffed with.

The natural aspect of South America is enough to fuel wanderlust for decades. The continent boasts basically every single type of impressive surrounding and land type. Volcanoes, glaciers, mountain ranges, deserts, savannah, tropic beaches, rainforest (not to forget, of course, the Amazon river itself, home to species of animal seen nowhere else on earth) – the list is endless. South America holidays simply cannot disappoint, no matter what one wants from a trip away. There are just too many incredible things to see and do. Really, the only problem is fitting them all in without missing out. One’s best bet is to take South America vacations in succession for years – that way, one can be sure one got everything done!