Exploring Central & South America

Moving smoothly along with our list of UNESCO’s 11 World Heritage cities in Peru, here are the next three on the list.  All are cultural sites of architectural and cultural heritage and all are still inhabited cities.

It is estimated that around two million people visit Peru each year, many seeking to experience the country’s beautiful sites of natural and historic wonder. Few countries the world over can claim to have a landscape and history as incredible as Peru’s, and the two often collide in harmonious and spectacular fashion at some of […]

I treated myself to a salteña style lazy morning of home-made alfajores (Argentine cookies with a layer of dulce de leche smeared between) and mate (the loose leaf tea Argentines are addicted to) before hopping on a motor scooter to check out San Lorenzo´s ¨rainforest¨. It felt more like the hills of Bel Air, California […]

Our marketing interns David and Johan from Holland have been busy making the most of their three months in Buenos Aires. One of the first things on their list was experiencing a Boca Juniors football match. here´s their account of their ultimate Argentina football experience.

Being from California and spending much of my post 21 year-old years tasting wines from Santa Barbara to Napa Valley, my move to Argentina meant a whole new wine country I was excited to start exploring. My first month living in Buenos Aires involved a long weekend trip to Mendoza to begin dabbling in Malbecs […]

While everyone else in Salta was just arriving home from a night of asado eating, singing along in a peña folkloric bar, or dancing night into day at the boliches (music clubs), I was well on my way to the Salinas Grandes in the Jujuy Province. Nine other enthused travelers and myself, piled into a […]

    Our Marketing Intern, Natalie, just got back from a week exploring Salta, Argentina and would love to share her travel experience and tips with you in her series of blogs this week. Look for entries  covering the city of Salta, a tour to Salinas Grandes, wine tasting in Cafayate, biking Valle Calchaqui, and her […]

Next in our series of blog posts from the CAT Travel team we have Marcos (one of our South America Travel Specialists) telling us about his travels in Peru.

Next up in our series of South America travel blogs from members of the CAT Travel team, we have Jimena from our Buenos Aires, Argentina office. She shares with us some of her favorite pictures and tells us about the time she worked as a tour guide in Ushuaia, way down in southern Argentine Patagonia.