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Just a few hours from Lima, but a world away in landscape and altitude, lies Huaraz, the capital of Andean adventure in Peru. Surrounded by the Cordillera Blanca, the highest tropical mountain range on Earth, this town is the ideal starting point for trekking, climbing and views you won't easily forget.
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In the heart of Peru's central Andes, Ayacucho holds one of the country's richest religious and artisanal heritages. With its 33 colonial churches and a historic centre that has remained almost untouched, the city is considered one of Peru's cultural capitals, often overlooked by the more well-trodden tourist routes.
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On Peru's northern coast, just minutes from Trujillo, the fishing village of Huanchaco is today one of the favourite destinations for surfers from all over the world. But its relationship with the Pacific waves is far older than you might imagine.
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About three hours from Huaraz, in the heart of Peru's central Andes, lies one of the country's most fascinating and least-known archaeological sites: Chavín de Huántar. Declared a Unesco World Heritage Site, the complex was the main ceremonial centre of the Chavín culture, one of the oldest and most influential Andean civilisations, which developed around three thousand years ago.
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Iquitos is the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road: surrounded by rainforest, it can only be reached by air or by river. That is exactly why it is the ideal starting point for an Amazon River cruise, the only way to access some of the most remote and untouched areas of the Peruvian Amazon.
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In northern Chile, amid snow-capped volcanoes and salt flats that stretch as far as the eye can see, lies San Pedro de Atacama, gateway to the driest desert on the planet. A lunar landscape that, despite its extreme aridity, is home to an extraordinary variety of ecosystems and natural phenomena.
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In the far south of Chile, Patagonia reveals one of its most iconic landscapes: Torres del Paine National Park, often cited among the most beautiful natural parks in the world. Its three granite towers, rising over 2,500 metres, dominate a territory of glaciers, turquoise lakes and windswept Patagonian steppe.
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Climbing over forty hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Valparaíso is one of the most fascinating and unpredictable cities in Chile. A Unesco World Heritage Site, its historic centre is a maze of steep alleyways, colourful staircases and houses clinging to the hillside with views over the port.
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Facing the Caribbean, Cartagena de Indias is one of the best-preserved colonial cities in South America and one of the most photographed places in Colombia. Its walls, built from the 16th century onwards to protect the city from pirate attacks, enclose a historic centre declared a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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Few stories of urban transformation are as remarkable as that of Comuna 13 in Medellín, Colombia. Once among the most dangerous neighbourhoods in the country, it has today become an international symbol of social regeneration through culture, music and street art.
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About a thousand kilometres off the coast of Ecuador, the Galápagos Islands represent one of the most extraordinary natural laboratories on the planet. It was precisely the observation of this archipelago's wildlife that, in 1835, inspired Charles Darwin's first insights into the theory of evolution.
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On the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, the small village of Copacabana has for centuries been a place of pilgrimage and passage between Peru and Bolivia. Its Marian sanctuary, a destination for devotees from across the Andean highlands, coexists with the relaxed atmosphere of a lakeside village, among fresh trout restaurants and a waterfront perfect for watching the sunset.
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