In southern Venezuela’s tepuis – the sandstone, table-topped mountains that inspired Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle’s novel The Lost World – travellers still feel like 19th-century explorers.
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From death-defying mountain biking to the floating islands of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia has a lot to offer adventure travellers.
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One day in this Brazilian city moves across contrasting worlds of wealth and poverty, from the motogirls to the nightlife entrepreneurs.
Take a visual tour beyond the city’s most famous sites -- to the beaches, the favelas and into some of Rio’s rich colonial past.
Stay in one of the region’s ranches, hike through the Andes and explore the Argentinean countryside from the back of a horse.
Within a bus ride of Machu Picchu is a fissure twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, home to soaring condors, endless trekking routes and little-altered Inca and Pre-Inca traditions.
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