Argentina

* Buenos Aires

• La Recoleta Cemetery
• Casa Rosada
• La Boca area
• Palermo area
• Teatro Colon
• Museum of Latin American Art
• Feria de San Telmo – has market on Sundays
• Bosques de Palermo (park with rose garden)
• El Ateneo (beautiful book store)
• Museum of Bellas Artes
• Costanera Sur ecological reserve
• Casa minima (very narrow house)
• Puente de la Mujer
• Museum of Decorative Arts
• Museo Evita (Eva Peron)
• Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art

Salta

• Museum of Archaeology (mummies)
• Cerro San Bernardo (views – has funicular)
• Historical Museum of the North
• Salta basilica
• Parque san martin
• Casa de hernandez – house museum with misc objects
• Day trip to surrounding area

* Ushuaia

• Ice bar
• End of the world train
• Antarctica museum
• Marine art museum
• Beagle channel boat trip
• Museo Yamana (small indigenous museum)
• Walk to martial glacier
• Museum at the end of the world
• Estancia Habrton

* Bariloche

• Barlioche cathedral
• Chocolate (argentina chocolate capital)
• Playa Bahia Serena
• Cerro Campanario mountain (has chairlift)
• Patagonia museum
• Gruta virgin de las nieves – cave altar
• Llao Llao hotel

Cordoba

• Cordoba cathedral
• Jesuit block
• Memory museum (dirty war)
• Iglesia capuchinos
• Guemes area
• Evita fine arts museum

* Iguazu Falls
Puerto Madryn

• Whale watching
• Museum of the man and the sea
• EcoCentre
• Punta Tombo penguin colony (out of the way)
• Museum of Paleontology (out of the way)

Rosario

• Flag monument
• Cathedral
• Independence park
• Museum of contemporary art

Mendoza

• Museo del area fundacional – history and ruins
• National wine museum

Cuevas de las Manos

Bolivia

Sucre *

• Casa de la libertad
• Museum of indigenous art
• Ethnographic and folklore museum
• Castillo de la Glorieta
• Recoleta (views)
• San Felipe de Neri Convent
• Cretacio Park dinosaur footprints
• La Merced rooftop

Potosi: cute colonial town
Cochabamba

• Palacio Portales

La Paz

• Witches’ market
• Calle Jaen
• San Francisco basilica
• National Art Museum
• Ethnography Museum
• Coca Museum
• Museo Tambo Quriuincho

Tiwanaku
Samaipata: cute colonial town

• El Fuerte ruins
• Animal refuge

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro *

• Copacabana beach
• Santa Teresa area
• Tijuca Forest (rainforest home to animals)
• National Museum of Fine Arts
• National Historical Museum
• National Museum of Brazil
• Lapa Steps
• Downtown area
• Museum of Tomorrow
• Parque Lage (pretty)
• Botanical Gardens
• Ipanema Beach
• Museum of the Indian

Salvador: colorful colonial city
Paraty: cute colonial town Petropolis

• Imperial Museum of Brazil
• Palacio Rio Negro
• Cathedral of Petropolis

Olinda: cute town

• Castelo de Ricardo Brennand

Ouro Preto

• Capela do Padre Faria (golden inside)
• Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora do Pilar: beautiful interior
• Museu da Inconfidencia (failed uprisings)
• Mineralogy Museum (has views)

Sao Paulo *

• Baco de Batman graffiti
• Museum of Art
• AfroBrazil Museum
• Pinacoteca do Estado: history through art
• Japantown
• Museu Paulista (history – out of the way)
• Vila Madalena area
• Sao Bento Monastery

Buzios: sprawled out beach city
Florianopolis: beach island

• Santo Antonio de Lisboa
• Victor Meirelles Museum
• Ribeirao da Ilha

Caribbean Netherlands

Kralendijk: colourful town
Rincon: cute town

Chile

Valparaiso

• Concepcion area
• Pablo Neruda’s House (has views)
• Fine Art Museum

Santiago *

• Cerro Santa Lucia
• Chilean Precolumbian Art Museum
• Placa de Armas
• Museum of Memory and Human Rights
• National Museum of Fine Arts
• La Choscana (home of Pablo Neruda)

Punta Arenas

• Cerro de la Cruz (views)
• Nao Victoria Museum (ships)
• Antarctica Day Trip?

Isla Magdalena: colony of penguins
Chiloe

Colombia

Cartagena *

• San Felipe Castle
• Museo del oro zenu
• Getsemani area
• Palace of the Inquisition
• Sanctuary of Saint Peter Claver
• Chocolate Museum
• Parque Centenario (ask for Ricardo to show you monkeys)

Barichara: cute small town
Villa de Leyva *

• El Fosil museum
• Del Santo ecce hommo convent
• Casa Museo Antonio Narino (Colombian independence)
• Paleological museum

Jardin*: small colorful town
Medellin

• Museo casa de la memoria
• Museo de Antioquia (local art)

Bogota*

• La Candaleria area
• Museo de Oro
• National Museum of Colombia
• Museo Santa Clara (baroque art)
• Museo de Arte Colonial

Jerico: colorful colonial town

• Museo maya

San Andres: carribean beach
Monkey island
Playa Blanca

• Plankton Tour

Tierradentro *: carved underground tombs
Tiradentes: cute colonial town
Salento: colorful town

• Playo tajo

Popayan

• Morro de tulcan (views)
• Puente de humilladero

Guatape: super colorful town

• Climb El Penol (fantastic views)

Curacao

Willemstad

• Kura Hulanda anthropological museum

Ecuador

* Ecuador Hop

Quito *

• la compania de jesus: gold interior
• museo guayasamin: famous local artist
• teleferiqo funicular ride
• basilica del voto nacional (views)
• plaza san Francisco
• la merced church
• convent san agustin
• chocolate con queso
• la ronda street
• la floresta area
• picari chocolate brand
• city museum
• national museum
• mindalae museum (indigenous cultures)
• casa del alabado (pre-colombian art)
• canelazo drink
• locro de papa soup
• government palace tour (Monday mornings have president outside)
• archaeological museum Antonio santiana (ancient art/culture)
• museo mena caamano: history of quito
• banco centro: history of Ecuador through art

Guayaquil *

• malecon 2000 riverfront
• las penas area
• el faro lighthouse
• santay island: eco friendly island (may be out of the way)
• parque historico: open air museum
• museum of archaeology and contemporary art
• parque bolivar iguanas
• malecon el salado
• la rotunda monument
• metropolitan cathedral
• museo municipal
• museo Presley Norton: pre-colombian artefacts
• miniature museum: history of ecuador

Galapagos
Cuenca

• cathedral of immaculate conception
• panama hat museum (homero Ortega museum is more highly recommended)
• old cathedral of Cuenca
• parque abdon calderon
• pumpapungo museum: indigenous culture
• plaza de las flores (agua de pitimas water)
• barranco area
• museum of aborigines culture
• amaru biopark
• provincial court and judicial school (open to the public)

Banos

• basilica reina del Rosario de agua santa
• el pailon del Diablo waterfall

Amazon forest
Mindo reserve
Otovalo

• museo otavalango
• atuntaqui textiles museum

Montanita : beach town
Isla de la plata *: mini Galapagos
Riobamba: Cute colonial town

Peru

Arequipa *

• Monastery of Santa Catalina
• Mercado San Camilo
• MUSA
• Casa Goyeneche: colonial house
• Mundo alpaca
• San Lazaro area
• Has lots of rooftop bars
• Yanahuara (views)
• Queso helado – coconut ice cream

Cusco

• San Blas area
• Pre-colombian art museum
• Archbishop’s palace
• Cusco planetarium
• San pedro market
• Qurikancha (again)
• 12 angle stone
• Inca museum
• Traditional Textile centre
• Coca museum

Lima

• Miraflores lighthouse
• Park of Love
• Huaca pucllana ancient pyramid
• St Francis monastery
• Larco museum: pre-columbian art
• Aliaga house: colonial home. Also Casa de la Riva, Casa de Oquendo, and Torre Tagle Palace
• MALI art museum
• Palacio de Gobierno changing of the guard
• Museum of the inquisition
• Museum of the Nation
• National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History

Caral *

Ollantaytambo *
Pisac
Trujillo

• Chan Chan
• Temples of Sun and Moon
• Casa Urquiaga house museum

Chan Chan: archaeological site
Huacas de sol y la luna: ancient painted temples
Mancora: beach town
Kuelap (Peru): archaeological site
Cajamarca

• Casa Museo Nicolas Puga
• Iglesia Belen

Monkey Island
Iquitos

• Belen area

Puno

• La casa del corregidor

Choquequirao: archaeological site
Ravesh Mausoleums
Leimybamba Museum (mummies)
Ayacucho: city very reminiscent of Cusco
Polloc: has beautiful church

Uruguay

* Montevideo

• Castillo Pittamiglio
• Salvo Palace lookout
• National History Museum
• Tango Museum
• Ciudad Vieja area
• Museo del Carnaval
• Museum of the History of Art
• Museum of Precolombian and Indigenous Art
• Museo Blanes (Uruguay’s most famous painter)
• Fortaleza del Cerro
• Mate (drink)

* Colonia del Sacramento

• Spanish Museum
• Portuguese Museum
• Paleotological Museum
• El Faro lighthouse