Anyone traveled South America?

Why the human pay for travel their own planet?

something is wrong

I took the bus the around SA, it's a big place, just book as you go, if you decide to fly book before you get there as it's cheaper

Have fun!

You're paying for another group of humans to collectively (a company, like United Airlines or whatever) to transport you there. You COULD visit there yourself for free, but you'd have to walk, bicycle, drive (gas $$$), and pay for all the supplies you'd need on such a long trek.

In a limited lifespan, time is money.

if your currency is close to the dollar s america will be cheap for you in most countries i guess

I think I would fly from Bogota to Rio. Thats a long ass haul nless you erally wanna do the amazon. You could also go to Bolivia first and check out Lake Titicaca and Sacshuayan or Tiahuanaco. I wish I could go.

Once you're in Rio, you can bus it to Sao Paulo and from there its great fun by bus to go to Chile. Great ride across the pampas in Arg. and then up and over the Andes into Santiago. From there go south to Puerto Montt and chaeck out the hot springs on the glaciers. Then go north
to Peru. Then go back to Santiago and get a ticket to Buenos Aires. You should try to go to Salvador in Brazil. Its a days bus ride north from Sau Paulo. 100$ a day should more than cover you.

La Paz - be sure to cycle the death road, visit lake titicaca & take the trip across the salt flats and the andes mountain range! Contact Yecid Morales he is on Facebook, he is a great contact for this area.

Thanks, will do that.

Already doing an Amazon trip but out of Lima.

Was thinking of flying as it does seem too long.

Thanks for the info.

Thanks friend, will do that.

cheers

Thinking from busing it from Sao Pauol, then to Buenos Aires, across to Santiago, then up to La Paz, and onto Lima.

texas is nice this time of year...

Was there last November, it was nice then.

I wouldnt go to south america id I were you, unless you want to be robbed.

I think I will be OK.

I would try to get a cheap flight to Lima from Miami. From Lima you go to Machu Picchu, then on to Puno where you can cross Lake Titicaca into Bolivia,while in Bolivia be sure to visit Cochabamba, then you either go on into Chile or Argentina or Paraguay via Tarija. See Chile,then it' easy to go to BA,from there you can enter Brasil via Iguazu Falls.

Many good bus lines running throughout the continent. I've worked in Bolivia,Paraguay,Brasil,Peru, and adopted a child in Ecuador. I'm ready to move back there again ASAP.

Come to Los Angeles, I will take you to East LA and drop you off it, you will have the same experience.

Going to Lima.

Can you recommend any good bus companies?

There are so many, it's best just to get there and talk to other travelers. Go to the Lonely Planet forums. You DO speak Spanish,si?

Do the Ahiowaska (sp?) thing.

be sure to see Rio

ayahuasca is a medicine that not every should take. I would be wary of many of the ayahuasca "tours", the dietica is not something to play with and does not result in a nice blotter trip,it's a very different spirit.

I've had several almost mystical experiences on Sugar Loaf in Rio. By all means go there.

you sir are an inspiration to us ALL

Oui!

I will now.

Thanks Charlie Murphy.

Hows Rick James going?

^^^ who is that guy anyways?

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.

I wanna

Man, $100 is NOTHING. Specially in Rio. Just the taxi may cost you more than 30 bucks and won't be so easy to find hotels at the last minute because flood of people go to Rio. São Paulo is the machine of Brazil but there's traffic jam all over the place, it's better just stay in Rio. Walk near Copacabana hotel , walk down the beach, drink a beer, eat fried shrimps. From La Paz to Lima is okey if you travel by the so-called "train of death" and bus to Machu Picchu and then go to Lima for 2 or 3 days. In La Paz go to Valley of the Moon which looks like the moon because Chacaltaya mountain is without snow unless is winter there. Ask if there's snow, it's worthless without snow. The deset of salt and Titicaca river is worth seeing it. Lima is better than Quito , you have to remember Lima and Cuzco were the place where Spanish conquerors built the Arabic sort of construction which is all over the place specially in Lima old downtown. Bogota is a nice play too and Mexico city. What the hell are you gonna see in Uruguay except Punta del Este? Compared with Peru, Colombia and Mexico is a waste of money!!!

Taste seafood in these countries and in Peru as well you should eat "pollo a la brasa" which is chicken done in a special sort of barbacue. Tamales in Colombia, a lot of excellent food in Mexico, Peru and Brazil. Don't eat red meat in Peru but the best is in Brazil and Argentina.