Lake Titicaca is one of South America’s top tourist attractions due to its mesmerizing sapphire beauty and intriguing culture.

Three national parks await visitors on Costa Rica tours who travel to the coast south of the capital and east to the Panamanian border. Given the profusion of wildlife and the beauty of these parks, for nature lovers, no travel to Costa Rica is complete without a visit to the national parks of the Pacific coast.

The Northeast contains two sub-regions, the Chaco and Mesopotamia. The Chaco includes the provinces of Formosa, Chaco and Santa Fe. Mesopotamia, meaning "land between rivers" includes the provinces of Misiones and Corrientes, the country's most easterly provinces that border Paraguay and Brazil, and Entre Rios Province to the south along the border with Uruguay. The region is rich with Jesuit history, contains the birthplace of famed liberator, Jose de San Martin, and is where Che Guevera spent his youth. Agriculture is still economically important on the plains of Santa Fe Province where in previous centuries, European immigrants converted open spaces to wheat fields. Yerba mate is cultivated in the mountainous areas of Misiones Province.

Items made from the fleece of South America’s camelid species are popular souvenirs for visitors who travel to Peru and other locations where indigenous communities weave or knit these yarns. Some of the continent’s most famous indigenous markets that sell Andean knits are located in very out-of-the-way places. Southern Explorations travels to several of these destinations.

On Brazil tours, visitors may have the opportunity to observe one or two baleen species at various locations during their vacation. Both the southern right whale and the humpback travel to Brazil to spend part of each year.