Latin America Travel Guides & Stories

Argentina Travel Guide

Argentina is a country that stands out from the rest of South America; its people are well-educated, its infrastructure highly ...

Brazil Travel Guide online

Brazil is just huge, larger than the USA if you don’t count Alaska. A good chunk of it is ...

Brazil Culture Guide

Brazilian culture is frequently lost behind the cliches of the non stop party and samba girls in sequin bikinis. Get ...

Colombia Travel Guide Online

Colombia probably doesn’t top most people’s list of vacation spots. With Amazon jungle, forest-covered mountains, beautiful women and Continue reading >>

Ecuador Travel Guide

From cooing tortoises to sweaty salsa nights, manic surf spots to inner city revival, misty tree-tops to lasvacious Latinos – ...

Mexico Travel Guide Online

Mexico likes to think it’s part of North America but is really the gateway to all things Latin for a ...

Peru Travel Guide

Peru is a mind-blowing country. The natural beauty of the mountains, deserts, and jungle sit in contrast to narco-terrorist jungle ...

Venezuela Travel Guide

Venezuela – the best kept secret in the Caribbean
So reads the Venezuelan Ministry of Tourism poster, and it may ...

Argentina :: Buenos Aires Photo Guide

Posted on Oct 03, 2006 by Roadjunky. Filed in: Photo Guides - Argentina

A menagerie of the Buenos Aires street scene.

Brazil :: Brazil Photo Guide - Beaches, Rio, and Iguasu Falls

Posted on Mar 28, 2007 by Jim Klee. Filed in: Photo Guides - Brazil

Brazil, as the ultimate visceral country, has it all. This motley collection of pics has the booze, people, birds, beaches and waterfalls but still feels like it misses the essence of the country completely.

Chile :: Patagonia Chile Photo Guide - Glaciers and Mountains

Posted on Mar 26, 2007 by Jim Klee. Filed in: Photo Guides - Chile

Chile is unique to South America in its position nestled in between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. From deserts to the north to mindnumbing arctic waterways in the south the country is full of beauty.

Costa-Rica :: Costa Rica Photo Guide

Posted on Jun 04, 2007 by Carlos Quantos. Filed in: Photo Guides - Costa-Rica

Costa Rica’s jungles, beaches and cloud forests set the landscape for a variety of eco-environmental activities. The path is well worn but that hasn’t made the Ticos any less friendly.

Curacao :: Photo Guide to Curacao - Part One

Posted on Jul 26, 2006 by Carlos Quantos. Filed in: Photo Guides - Curacao

This Caribbean island beckons you with its diversity and ghosts of slave trading. Come right over and learn to speak Papiamento.

Mexico :: Mazunte Beach Mexico Photo Guide

Posted on Apr 16, 2007 by Roadjunky. Filed in: Photo Guides - Mexico

Mazunte is where travelers go to chill out on the beachs of Oaxaca, Mexico and catch a few stoned sunsets. There’s a few peaceful beaches among the pounding surg of the Pacific Ocean and it’s become something of a backpacker refugee camp.

Mexico :: Chiapas Mexico Photo Guide

Posted on Apr 16, 2007 by Jamie Browning. Filed in: Photo Guides - Mexico

Chiapas – the Mayan heart of Mexico, home of ritual and one peso tacos.

Mexico :: Palenque Mexico Photo Guide

Posted on Apr 15, 2007 by Roadjunky. Filed in: Photo Guides - Mexico

Palenque is one of the most trippy places you’ll visit in Mexico, Mayan ruins that still hold a strong sense of magic, blood and sacrifice – the elements that make up classic ancient civilisation.

Mexico :: Baja Mexico Photo Guide

Posted on Apr 15, 2007 by Carlos Quantos. Filed in: Photo Guides - Mexico

Baja Mexico is a stunning instance of the desert meeting the sea. Here you might surf great waves, observe wildlife or just get drunk on tequila sitting in a bar in Cabo.

Patagonia - In Rio Gallegos

The trip to the Argentinean border was monotonous and the time passed in a soporific haze of flat windswept scrubby ...

Candy from a Baby

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Everyone has heard the expression, “it’s like taking candy from a baby.” We hear this phrase all the ...

Man Kiss - Argentina

I’m not gay, but I kiss men.

Not on the lips, pervert. In Argentina – as in many Latin countries, the ...

A Narrow Escape in the Belizean Jungle

You never know when these situations will arise. They’re the type that force action, challenge your response and lay ...

Bolivia Drugs Story - Where's my Dealer?

Trinidad, on your way towards Brazil in Western Bolivia. Instead of taking what is well documented as the most dangerous ...

Video Clips of Brazil's Favelas and Ghettos

Beyond the hotels, beaches and the carnival party packages that draw thousands of tourists to Brazil every year, there lies ...

Sex Still Sells in Brazil - TV ads

Whilst the rest of the world may have gotten the idea that women are more than sex objects, Brazil still ...

A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb – Travel Book Reviews

A Death in Brazil is a book that demonstrates a great writing talent with lush, florid passages that sweep the ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Coke and Favelas

A factor of living in third world countries like Brazil is that you can’t usually trust the police. They stopped ...

Ipanema Apartment, Rio de Janeiro

I found and rented a apartment in Rio de Janeiro after only one afternoon of looking around. The ad had ...

A Brazilian Prostitute

I’d met Luciana in the street during the Carnival in Brazil and she invited me to stay her afterwards in ...

Sexy Brazil Carnival in Olinda

As a kid in England I remember that the third most exciting day in the Christian calendar (after Present Day ...

Brazil Travel Story - Servants, slaves and Unintentional Seduction

The wealthy in a poor country tend to be far richer than the wealthy in a rich country. There may ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Poverty, Poodles and Favelas

Brazil is a world leader in economic indifference. The division of wealth here is so appalling that you wonder why ...

Rio de Janeiro Nightlife

Despite its fame as the party capital of the world it took me a few weeks to even find the ...

Medellin, Colombia - Everyone's Dream Holiday

The trouble with writing about all the danger, the drug abuse and the misery produced by the war is that ...

Colombia Escape Story

The day I arrived in Panama City I met some guys organizing a boat expedition to the Colombian North Coast- ...

Colombia Civil War

Colombia has been at war with itself for more than fifty years and most people seem to have forgotten why. ...

Colombia, Paradise of Patriots

I’ve never understood patriotism. It’s always seemed to me the seed for hatred, violence and war. To take pride in ...

Medellin, Don't Give Papaya

Medellin is a city with a small town feeling to it. The outlying neighbourhoods climb the slopes on each side ...

Medellin, Colombia - Paradise on Earth

“Never say anything bad about Medellin to a local here. They think it’s paradise on earth. And never say anything ...

Kidnapping in Colombia

In jest kidnapping has been called Latin America’s fastest growing industry. While there’s nothing funny about it for the victims ...

Parque Tyrona Colombia Travel Story

Parque Tayrona, a national park, the perfect retreat from Cartagena
, this is the place where Steve McQueen fell ...

Monteverde Cloud Forest Costa Rica

I followed my friend, Irmi, through a world of green, trees and plants of every description filling the air with ...

Costa Rica Travel Story Brush with Death in Corcovado

In the earlier months of our trip the three of us from Calgary, traveling in Costa Rica together figured out ...

Cycling across El Salvador

On a whim, with no previous training, I decide to ride a bicycle across El Salvador. Heck, when I ...

Guns in El Salvador but no Backpackers

El Salvador was almost an accident. I was on my way from the South to the North of Mexico when ...

Sorpresas and Surprises in San Salvador

I’ve been trawling San Salvador’s markets for hours now, searching for a sorpresa, or at least some one who has ...

Busin’ El Salvadorian Style

It’s fair to say that I don’t like rush hour. Back home, I’ll do almost anything to avoid those two ...

Livingston, Guatemala and How to Disappear Completely

The site was a broke down hotel room three floors above the streets of Livingston, http://www.roadjunky.com/article/1434/learning-spanish-in-xela-guatemala by Alex Valencia

Learning Spanish in Guatemala is popular and some places are well-known for it. But if you want to ...

Day of the Dead Guatemala Story

I don’t get it. There’s a man in the marketplace of San Pedro, a village by Lake Atilan in Guatemala, ...

Lake Atitlan Guatemala

You’d need a couple of days to walk around the 50 km around the perimeter of Lake Atilan and there’s ...

Guatemala Chicken Bus

The Buses of Mexico are of the luxury variety that guarantees a passenger his own reclining seat. They often have ...

San Marcos Hippy Village Atitlan Guatemala

It takes time to get to know water. Every beach, river and lake has its own character and the nature ...

Tegucigalpa, Honduras Travel

From the moment I arrived it felt ugly. I’d spent the last three hours in the bus attempting to understand ...

The Tunnel Witches of Guanajuato

I live in Mexico and Mexico is NOT Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana or Cabo. If you want to ...

Sleeping Rough in Morelia, Mexico

It was a long road from my cozy little home in Guanajuato, Mexico to the coast of Michoacan. On the ...

Facing a Fear

I’m afraid of water.

It started the summer I was five when my uncle “taught” me to swim by throwing ...

Baja Surf Trip

People say a lot of things about California – that it’s the end of civilization, that it’s destined to ...

Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Tortillas, Manana

“Mexico is slow.”

My friend Tanya told me: a big mama type born and raised in Mexico but with features ...

San Cristobal, Chiapas - Zapatista Story, Mexico

San Cristobal de las Casas is just a few hours up from the jungle but the air cools dramatically, crisp ...

Palenque Travel Mexico

Life dripped off every leaf and it was as though we could hear the jungle breathing around us. Sunlight began ...

Heidi's Bar, Travel in Granada, Nicaragua

Despite an affinity for the music of Tom Waits and the blues
, I’d never spent much time sitting ...

Ometepe Travel Nicaragua Volcano

“Con gusto,” our waiter said as he set a plate of gallo pinto in front of each of us. The ...

Granada Travel Nicaragua

The road through Nicaragua is like a tongue of tarmac squeezing through a rolling landscape of green; not the dense ...

Panama City Travel Story

For some reason it had seemed like a smart idea to catch the night bus to Panama City and thus ...

Sex and Germans in the Mountains of Peru

Huaraz felt like a trap and I had to get out. I told my Peruvian girlfriend Maria this and she ...

Amazon Boat Ride in Peru

Iquitos, Peru

Relaxing on the roof terrace-come-menagerie that was the hotel without a name, just two blocks off the Plaza De ...

Nazca to Cusco

Seemed logical, looking at a map. A to B, Nazca to Cusco. The unpaved road snaked out of town north-east. ...

Raft down the Amazon in Peru

I’d been traveling for about a month since I finished my service with the Peace Corps in Paraguay. I was ...