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Join a small group of like-minded travellers on a guided trip.
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We put together a bespoke tour to fit your requirements.
Prices From $955 / £776.415 per person
Dates: January 2025
Duration: 3
Capacity: 5 per person
The trip here starts and finishes in Uyuni, but we can arrange for the tour to start and/or finish in Chile’s San Pedro de Atacama if that suits you better.
Starting in Uyuni, we head out into the vast southern desert and enjoy the starkly beautiful landscapes of this dramatic desert wilderness.
The network of salt hotels we use are newly built, of a high standard (3/4 star) and in keeping with the local environment.
The hotels were built in partnership with four local communities, each actively involved in their construction and running, and benefit directly from the income.
Duration: 15
Enjoy thermal springs and sleepy Salento before you head into Los Nevados National park for a hike into another world.
Los Nevados is a trekking paradise next to the famous coffee region.
Cloud forests, humming birds and volcanoes – plus the incredible frailejones plants – are your visual tapestry.
Walk to real mountain fincas, welcoming farmhouse type accommodations run by people clinging on to their traditional lifestyles, high in the Los Nevados mountains.
Having seen some incredible people, animals and plants, you fly to the famous Colombian Caribbean coast. Here, enjoy yoga, cold drinks and the pounding waves to relax after the hike.
One final day walk to the indigenous El Pueblito village awaits, then we take in the colourful towns of Santa Marta and Cartagena.
You can transfer out and fly to Bogota, and home, or book more nights in Cartagena, or perhaps fly to San Andres or Providencia for some Caribbean island relaxation.
Prices From $625 / £508.125 per person
Dates: January 2019
Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, Sugar Loaf and Corcovado are all must sees when visiting the city as well as experiencing its colourful nightlife.
Rio is famed for its carnival and hosted World Cup Soccer matches in 2014 as well as the Olympic Games in 2016.
You can easily combine a short stay here with a few days in the chic resort of Buzios, the charming colonial town of Parati or the the tropical wilderness of Ilha Grande.
Not only cultural diversity but also an insurpassable biodiversity mean that Brazil will surely delight all your senses.
Duration: 4
Add a splash of culture by visiting the fascinating Andean Sistine Chapel and explore the village of Sajama and its picturesque little church when you stay in this remote community.
We have included the options of trekking and camping or alternatively enjoy several day walks, returning to your hotel in the evening.
For intrepid mountain climbers why not add the non-technical volcano climb of Acotango, at just over 6,000 m this is a challenge but achievable by fit and acclimatised explorers. We provide a local guide for this.
Either way you are up close to nature in this remote mountain environment.
We use simple hotel accommodation, but we can tailor this tour to be exclusively camping or hotel accommodation or a mix, whatever you prefer.
The colours of the national park are a beautiful mix of white, greens, yellows and browns and its geysers are set in a peaceful location, surrounded by mountains.
If you camp at one of the beautiful, coloured lagoons, we are most likely to be the only human souls there – bird life is prolific.
You fly in to historic Manta and then explore – see what the local fisherman have caught at sea, head to South America’s only dry tropical forest and investigate the pre-Spanish cultures.
Then travel south to the coastal area of Machalilla, a dry tropical forest with bizarre shaped kapok trees.
Puerto López is a small, charming and somewhat ramshackle fishing town of around 10,000 people which quickly grows on you.
Or try Agua Blanca further inland and hike through the dry forest you reach the humid tropical forest of San Sebastián, great for seeing orchids, birds and monkeys.
More on whale watching
The port of Salango has lazy beach walks, and let’s not forget the humpback whale, a regular visitor to the Ecuadorian coast.
The waters off the province of Manabí, now protected by the national Park of Machalilla, are breeding grounds for this magnificent whale with frequent sightings from June to September.
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Michelle and Dan, Peru and Ecuador, April 2024. We just wanted to let you know that we had a fantastic holiday. Everything went smoothly and exceeded our expectations. Flights, transfers, trips etc all on time, all guides were very friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. We liked all the hotels we stayed in. Even the weather was great for us.
We were the first to the Sun gate and enjoyed a virtually empty first hour at Machu Picchu.
The animals and snorkelling in the Galapagos was successful with sharks, sea lions, penguins, seahorses, turtles, marine iguanas, rays and even a dolphin!
So we want to say a huge thank you to you for all your help in the planning, answering our questions and guiding us which meant it was such a success.
We will definitely be recommending you to our friends.
A. Barry, Peru, March 2024 I have returned from my Peruvian adventures! Thank you so very, very much for everything that you did in preparing and organising my itinerary. Everything was absolutely perfect and I had a really wonderful time. I loved every bit of it all! Everything ran perfectly smoothly and to plan, without any problems whatsoever. I thoroughly enjoyed all the excursions. The places I saw were just amazing. And the guides and organisation of everything were just fantastic. I absolutely loved the Colca Valley - what a beautiful place. I didn't want to leave. And I adored lodge! Lake Titicaca was just wonderful too, and the choice of hotel was total perfection for what I wanted to do. I enjoyed the tour and stay in Arequipa also. Kat - thank you for all your time, energy, help and patience in the early days when you were putting up with a lot of chopping and changing from me before we finally pinned things down into the finished plan. I had a really wonderful, happy experience and I would not hesitate in highly recommending the services of Andean Trails to anybody.
