What I Noticed About South America Travel

On my bucket list are Panama and Dominica, Rio, Buenos Aires, and others but I noticed something about this contextually that is disturbing.

When I plan my trip to Bogota or Lima, the context is obscured.

I understand it in the context of mature content on the web (such that a webcam studio and its models are there) or illicit substances and their manufacture.

But I want my Rio trip! :-]

The reasoning could be simple tourist curiosity or as elaborate as an upcoming massive dance music festival.

And I know too there are warnings... The State Department issues a map of recommended places or adversity here: Travel.State.Gov CSI



And for South America, Suriname is safe, French Guiana is safe, and Paraguay is safe enough, such that even if it's a little dicey, it may turn out normally before much time has elapsed. It is more likely to be happiness and relative safety than any other thing, and for that we consider it safe for travel with Paraguay perhaps having a higher rate of tourism and as such more opportunistic tourist-targeting.

What about EDC Colombia? ^_^_

Well, EDC is a big draw for me. I'm also familiar with mention of some of the areas; the party is in Medellin which is known for its cultural significance to Colombia.

What is this about?

I noticed that it helps to understand Medellin from the Colombian point of view. It is helpful to remove it from the context of manufacture or trade, and to remove it from studio too; they are a family after the lights in the place turn out, and at night around 21:00 they sit at a table and say "Que paso" like everyone else.

For me, it's late in the game for an EDC, but the lure of Colombia is strong for me; much less for machetes than for music!

I will try to go! And if I do, I want to make it my goal to visit as an informed tourist who knows there is more to love than music and machetes.

 

Highly recommend hiking the inca trail in Peru.

If your in Peru Lima isn't really where you want to be.

Try starting your journey out in Cusco. Give yourself a day or two to get acclimated because the elevation will probably make you sick at first (11000 feet). Get some local remedies for altitude sickness like coca leaves or mate de muna. There is something incredibly spiritual about the Andes mountains around there.

Then if you have time after the Inca trail trek into the amazon rainforest. Try to target visiting areas where the mosquitos don't carry malaria.

So yea it wasn't on your list but my favorite parts of south america are definitely the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforest.

 

I definitely want to go to EDC Colombia, and Lima, and Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires. I speak a few words of Spanish and am comfortable enough for most of these; Rio might mean Portuguese, but with a bonus of Porto and just Portugal (which is expensive for me).

Anyway, I'm glad you mentioned Andes.

 

You can fly into Lima then after you are done there get a plane from Lima to Cusco. You would probably connect through Lima anyway to get to Cusco.

It's probably better to hire a driver and not rent a car. I've done a lot of inner city driving but people on the roads in Peru are truly crazy. At one point when I was on foot a guy almost ran me over. I jumped onto the hood of his car otherwise he would have hit me. It made a big dent. Then I disapeared into a crowd. There is no way I would have made it out of that country without getting into an accident if I had to drive.



I don't speak spanish and I was never good with foreign languages. I just used a translator app on my phone. After a few weeks I was almost beginning to be able to speak spanish. But it was a relief to get to speak english again.