Ecuador’s Hidden Gem: The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve By Charlie Bennett Ecuador is an incredibly underrated travel destination for anyone with a yen to soak up a rich cultural heritage, while also observing some of South America’s most incredible flora and fauna. Though I was fascinated as I toured the historical sites on the cobblestone …
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South America – it’s bigger than you think. There are jungles, rainforest, pampas, pulsating cities, knock-out beaches and lots of Spanish spoken too.
Tumbes Swamp Sanctuary in Northern Peru
Tumbes Swamp Sanctuary in Northern Peru The mangrove jungles of Peru’s northern coast have a diversity of species almost matching the Amazon. The Santuario Nacional los Manglares de Tumbes (National Sanctuary of the Swamps of Tumbes) covers 2,972 hectares of shoreline around the Rio Tumbes. This estuary is a rich ecosystem of swamps, brackish channels …
The Blooming Desert in Atacama
The Blooming Desert in Atacama, Chile Patagonia – the region, not country – covering the lower halves of Chile and Argentina is known for its abundance of marine life, soaring, craggy outcrops covered in snow, and its sense of wilderness at ‘the end of the world’. But just north of Patagonia, in Chile, is a …
Top 5 Beach Activities in Jamaica
Jamaica is known for a lot of thing: rum, reggae, Rastas. But this gem of an island is also known for having some of the best beaches in the world. And as the third largest island in the Caribbean, it offers just about every
The Paraguyan Border Jigsaw – Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil
When backpackers draw up a list of ‘must sees’ on their South American trip there’s a good chance Paraguay isn’t on it. I’ll be honest it wasn’t on mine. But it felt rude not to take a squizz at the landlocked nation considering we were only a few hundred metres away in neighbouring Brazil. Like …
Nefyn in Wales twinned with Puerto Madryn in Argentina
How on earth is Nefyn on the idyllic Lleyn peninsula of North Wales twinned with Puerto Madryn, 8,000 miles away on the rugged coast of Patagonian Argentina? Surely this particular ‘twinning’ is the result of a blindfolded dart player and a world map? I’m always a little bemused as to how towns in Britain are …