Argentina Where to go

Argentina has many natural wonders of the world, including the majestic waterfalls of Iguazú (shared with Brazil), the spectacular Perito Moreno Glacier, whose towering sixty-metre walls carve icebergs into the lake below, and the fascinating whale colonies off the Península Valdés. Yet many of the country's most noteworthy sights are also its least known, such as the Reserva Natural del Iberá, a huge reserve of swamps and floating islands offering unforgettably close-up encounters with cayman, monkeys, capybara and hundreds of brightly plumed birds.

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Posted: 01.03.07

Brazil Introduction and basics

Brazilians often say they live in a continent rather than a country, and that's an excusable exaggeration. The landmass is bigger than the United States if you exclude Alaska. Brazil has no mountains to compare with its Andean neighbours, but in every other respect it has all the scenic – and cultural – variety you would expect from so vast a country.

Despite the immense expanses of the interior, roughly two-thirds of Brazil's population live on or near the coast; and well over half live in cities – even in the Amazon. In Rio and São Paulo, Brazil has two of the world's great metropolises, and nine other cities have over a million inhabitants. Yet Brazil still thinks of itself as a frontier country, and certainly the deeper into the interior you go, the thinner the population becomes.

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