Where are the: Best / Cheapest / Safest Places to visit in South America?

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cisne n.egro

CearÃ¡ in Brazil, it is an indescribable and beautiful place and it is very cheaply and safe, the Europeans discovered that place and it is receiving tourists more and more.

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Bob A

Great question but too broad to answer well. I lived in Latin America for 5 years and traveled by foot, hitch-hiking, motorcycle, bus, and any other means I could get one foot up before it moved. ANY place is cheap but you need to know how to make it cheap without getting killed. Spend a few dollars ($15.00 or so on Ebay or Amazon) and get a copy of The Footprint South American Handbook. This is a guide that has been published yearly since the 1920's and has been written by travelers' letters to the publisher. It is filled with costs of everything from taxi fare, meals, cheap hotels, etc. It is also filled with warnings about scams, bad food, dangerous areas, diseases, etc. With the book in hand I could live and tour for as little as $20/day (probably could have done it for less if I skimped) and I am still alive after travel in rebel areas, shakedowns by police, run ins with the Peruvian armed forces, Ecuadorian military transports, trading dollars in black markets, and much more fun! Have a good trip and DON'T leave home without the book.

M W

The problem is that any place cheap is not safe, in South America. Why not consider Panama? This is an interesting place to go and also is relatively cheap and safe.

ambassador_rfa

ECUADOR -
La Mitad del Mundo - A city with a "museum" on the equator where you can balance an egg on the tip of a nail and see water flush both ways down a sink depending on which side of the equator you are on.
Misahualli - Cheap city to leave for Amazon jungle trips

PERU
Iquitos - Only reachable by air. Jungle town with Amazon tours.
Guayaquil - Parque de las Iguanas - Hundreds of iguanas hang out in a public park and even will come up and crawl all over you.
Huacachina - Beautiful oasis in the middle of miles and miles of sand dunes. http://www.reisreporter.be/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/peru_2006_02_10_huacachina.jpg
Nasca Lines - Lines making pictures in the ground only visible by air making it not that cheap. I paid 25 dollars for the flight to see them. one example - - - http://anthropologynet.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/nasca-lines-bird.jpg

BOLIVIA
Lake Titicaca - Well known very pretty lake with Uros people and their man made floating islands --- http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/23432/93209/f/597676-An-Uros-Island-0.jpg
Uyuni Salt Flats - Salt, salt and more salt. Price depends on how many days. I spent 45 dollars for a 2.5 day trip --- http://darren-aaron.smugmug.com/photos/82942408-S.jpg
La Paz - A neat capital and one of the highest in the world. Here you can also ski the highest skiable mountain in the world.

ARGENTINA - Everything is cheap. Absolutely everything. Lots of very interesting areas around Buenos Aires. Can't remember very many, Boca and Tigres to name 2.

URUGUAY
Las Valisas - A little town on the beach. There are many little town like this along the beach. These places don't have (or at least didn't have when I was there) electricity making them inxpensive. I camped on the beach in the sand while there.
Punta del Este - Beach town. Not cheap but very pretty and and hip.

CHILE
Don't remember too much about Chile except for that I didn't stay long because it was quite expensive. A very pretty and very organized country though.

Any questions feel free to write me. I'd love to reminisce!

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