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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French are predominantly spoken.
The Latin American Travel Association promotes the area as a tourist destination.
Bolivia
Bolivia, in central South America, offers a varied terrain spanning Andes Mountains, the Atacama Desert and Amazon Basin rainforest.
At more than 3,500m, its administrative capital, La Paz, sits on the Andes' Altiplano plateau with snow-capped Mt. Illimani in the background.
Nearby is glass-smooth Lake Titicaca, the continent's largest lake, straddling the border with Peru.
The salt flats of Salar de Uyuni cover 10,000 square kilometres and its vastness offers the chance to create stunning images.
Belize
Belize on the eastern coast of Central America has Caribbean Sea shorelines to the east and dense jungle to the west.
Offshore, the Belize Barrier Reef comprises hundreds of low-lying islands called cayes, rich with marine life.
Belize's jungle areas are home to Mayan ruins like Caracol with its towering pyramid; lagoon-side Lamanai and Altun Ha, just outside Belize City.
Belize is also known for Great Blue Hole, a rare natural phenomenon, with a circular drop of more than 400ft decorated with colourful coral formations and populated by reef sharks, nurse sharks, barracuda, and turtles.
The Great Blue Hole is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which Jacques Cousteau called one of the best dive sites in the world.
Journey Latin America has a 9-day holiday to Belize visiting the Cayo district, Caracol ruins, Mountain Pine Ridge and Ambergris Caye.
Exodus Travels offers a three-day 4WD tour of its lagoons, cacti islands and spouting geysers.
Bolivia has a whole host to offer visitors including vibrant cities such as Sucre, Potosi and La Paz whose heritage were shaped by both the Incas and the Spanish Conquistadores.
Patagonia
Patagonia is an area with the vast southernmost tip of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile, with the Andes Mountains as its dividing line.
It is one of the last great wildernesses with a dramatic landscape with the Andes itself, lakes, fjords, and glacier in the west and deserts, tablelands and steppes to the east.
Argentina's RN-40 highway passes the pinnacles of Monte Fitz Roy and Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park.
Latin Routes has launched a new 17-day tour titled Pure Patagonia' visiting Argentine and Chilean Patagonia.
Highlights include the Argentine lake district of Bariloche, Puerto Vara, Puerto Natales and the iconic Torre del Paine National Park.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a rugged, rainforested Central American country with coastlines on the Caribbean and Pacific.
Sopme 25% of its area is made up of protected jungle, teeming with wildlife including spider monkeys and quetzal birds.
In addition to jungles it offers pristine beaches.
Revealed Travel offers the chance to visit the countries natural environments including Tortuguero's wildlife rich waterways that are full of monkeys, toucans and other colourful birds and hiking on the slopes of the Arenal Volcano National Park.
The Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, is considered one of the world's foremost destinations for wildlife-viewing.
A province of Ecuador, it lies about 1,000km off its coast with isolated terrain sheltering many plant and animal species, found nowhere else.
Charles Darwin visited in 1835, and his observation of Galápagos' species later inspired his theory of evolution.
Guests with Golden Galapagos Cruises can follow in Darwin's footsteps and have close-up experience of the wildlife.
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Chile
Chile stretches along South America's western edge, with more than 6,000km of Pacific Ocean coastline along with the mountains of the Andes, lakes of Pucón, deserts of the Atacama and glaciers of Patagonia.
Santiago, its capital, sits in a valley surrounded by the Andes and Chilean Coast Range mountains.
Chile specialist TravelArt offers a new 12-day Heartbeat of Chile, which journeys from Santiago, to the Elqui Valley; known for its dramatic starry skies and viticulture, Isla Damas, the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sewell; an uninhabited Chilean mining town located on the slopes of the Andes, and the dramatic Torres del Paine National Park.
Cuba
Cuba comprises the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet.
It offers fifties-style American cadillacs roll through the faded colonial streets while in the music halls rum flows freely.
Away from its cities, Cuba has a wild side with a variety of landscapes from dramatic limestone hills to dense forests to Caribbean coastlines.
Explore's Cuba Libre tour takes in the best of vintage Cuba including highlights a little off the beaten track such as Colonial Trinidad with music and colour around every corner, the Escambray Mountains perfect for hiking and swimming in freshwater pools, and learning about Revolutionary history at the Bay of Pigs.
Guyana
Guyana, on South America's North Atlantic coast, offers the culture of the Caribbean region.
Over 80% of Guyana's territory is dense, pristine rainforest with eco-systems that have evolved over millennia undisturbed by human development.
The Kaieteur Falls is one of the world's largest single-drop waterfall.
Reef and Rainforest's tour Natural Guyana Off The Beaten Track takes travellers into a variety of ecosystems including tropical rainforest, savannahs, wetlands, mighty rivers, mangroves and mountains.
Visitors will have the chance to spot iconic wildlife such as black caiman, giant anteater, giant river otter, arapaima, harpy eagle, capybara and green anaconda.
Peru
Peru is home to a section of Amazon rainforest and Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan city high in the Andes mountains.
The region around Machu Picchu, including the Sacred Valley, Inca Trail and colonial city of Cusco, is rich in archaeological sites.
Lima, the capital on Peru's arid Pacific coast, has a preserved colonial centre.
Lima Tours offers an eight-day 4x4 trip with a professional driver, from Lima, to the impressive Paracas National Reserve, an extensive territory of geological formations.
It also takes in the Ballestas Islands, a natural reserve home to sea lions and penguins, the Nasca Lines and the Sacred Valley and the citadel of Machu Picchu.
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