When you are in Buenos Aires, you really should make a day trip to Colonia del Sacramento. It is a city in southwestern Uruguay, by the Río de la Plata, facing Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the oldest towns in Uruguay. To get there, you can take one of three ferries leaving from Buenos Aires, Argentina: “Buquebus,” “Seacat Colonia,” or...
If you cannot or simply don’t want to take a trek across Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, there is always a train option. Trains from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes, Peru, take around 1h 31m and cover a distance of approximately 43 km. There are two services currently available, one by PeruRail and Inca Rail; I took PeruRail. It was a comfortable trip in spacious...
La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, is located in a canyon on the Choqueyapu River. The best way to see the city is from high above, the views are amazing. Take something called Mi Teleférico or an aerial cable car urban transit system serving the La Paz–El Alto metropolitan area in Bolivia. It’s a brilliant child of former Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma, who...