South America Travel
Brazil to invest $3B on airports for 2014 WCup
The Brazilian government approved on Monday nearly $3 billion in funding to renovate and expand its airports ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
The swellest little town in Costa Rica
Despite Costa Rica’s boom in tourism, Sámara, on the northwest coast, has managed to stay blissfully under the radar — and is the perfect place to catch a break on the waves.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's capital of samba and Carnival, is a city forever defined in people's imagination by its miles of golden beach that draw sun-worshippers. But there is more.
Chile’s struggling fishermen offer tsunami tours
Weeks after a tsunami destroyed their livelihoods, some of Chile's struggling independent fishermen are offering boat tours of the devastation.
Tourists can visit Machu Picchu once again
Tourists are back at Machu Picchu, which reopened after a two-month closure due to floods that washed out the rail link to the mountaintop ruins.
Quake scares Chile tourists, most sites fine
In the aftermath of the mega-quake in central Chile, visitors are greeted by jarring contrasts: A general impression of normalcy shaken by pockets of spectacular destruction.
Everything goes in Rio? Not anymore
The World's Greatest Party opens today, but the everything-goes atmosphere of Carnival that turns Rio into a giant oceanside den of debauchery is under assault.