Book a trip to South America and enjoy incredible cities, beautiful beaches, exotic islands, ancient ruins and so much more.
Best South America Tour Operators
Countries
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Travel to South America
Some tours start or finish in cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, home of great nightlife, pavement cafes and legendary Eva Peron.
On some itineraries you can enjoy the golden beaches of vibrant Rio, the legendary Iguazu Falls and the wildlife of Brazil’s great Pantanal. Some overland tours let you see a lot of the lesser known parts of South America, including the colonial gems of Uruguay. Snorkel amongst tropical fish in Bonito’s crystalline rivers and go cruising on the Emerald Coast.
Machu Picchu in Peru is the undoubted icon of South America, and somewhere you must visit.
Popular Destinations
- Buenos Aires
- Rio de Janeiro
- Galapagos Islands
- Machu Picchu
- Easter Island
- Patagonia
South America Small Group Adventure Tours
Our partner travel companies have vast experience in running tours in South America and staff and guides have a wealth of practical knowledge and local insight. You can choose from a wide variety of trips and durations.
If you have a couple of months or more, choose a major trans-continental overland tour, either using accompanied local transport, or on a specially-equipped truck. For those with less time, local transport tours taking in specific countries are available from as little as 6 days, with short add-ons possible, too.
South America Overland Tours
Overland tours are avialable to book throughout South America, you can take in single countries or see the highlights of the whole continent.
Trips are something like a youth hostel on wheels – everyone pitches in to clean the truck and take turns cooking and washing up. That might not be to everyone’s taste, but the camaraderie of the experience and the chance to see parts of the world largely inaccessible to lone travellers prove attractive to a diverse spectrum of passengers.
The upper deck of the tour bus will likely feature a safe for valuables, an icebox for food and drinks, a sleeping bunk for the co-driver, a sound system and a small collection of books and guides. Air-conditioning will be provided by nature, through rows of sliding windows. Below, storage for luggage and the tour’s extensive collection of camping and cooking equipment took the form of a series of lockable steel compartments.
Your tour leader will handle the logistics like a minor military operation, but you will develop a soak-in-the-experience and chip in to help overland ethos. Those on a tour might range from a teenager to a man in his 70s, but we think most have an average age of around 30. Accommodation will vary, ranging from small hotels to grassy roadside campsites and rows of hammocks in a jungle shack.