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BBC Lost Kingdoms of Central America
Follow Dr Jago Cooper, curator of the Americas section in the British museum, on his travels through Central America with the BBC's new four-part series. In this first episode Jago goes in search of the ancient Olmec civilisation in Southern Mexico. The Olmec, said to have inspired the Mayans, a... Read more»
New Lares Adventure
Mountain Lodges of Peru have created a brand new five day flexible walking itinerary, based on the classic Lares Trek in the Urubamba Valley, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The trek can be adapted to suit your fitness level and can be extended to include extra hikes or more leisurely days if req... Read more»
Summer Newsletter July 2014
Welcome to a post-Wimbledon round-up of Latin America news and staff travel. In this issue: Office news | Last Frontiers' Top Three: Home away from home | Ed in Patagonia | Jonny in Costa Rica | Brazil: when the dust settles Office news We welcome new recruit Fran, who is settling in very well af... Read more»
Jonny in Costa Rica
Having been lucky enough to visit much of Central America, Costa Rica was one country whose passport stamp had still eluded me. Thankfully in May I was able to rectify this, spending two weeks visiting some of the country's highlights and lesser known areas - and finding some new discoveries for Las... Read more»
Ed on the Carretera Austral - driving Chile's southern highway
My first introduction to the Carretera Austral was in 1998, when I led a group of photographers down a section of the road from Chaitén to Coyhaique. I had to wait 16 years to drive the remaining sections of the highway - but it was worth the wait! The Carretera Austral, Chile’s iconic highway linki... Read more»
Is Google dumbing down our world? - a filter bubble too far
In early 2014 I was in Chile, driving its stunning Carretera Austral, the 1,240km highway first conceived under Augusto Pinochet’s presidency and now uniting remote settlements with its thin ribbon of gravel and occasional asphalt. Whilst on a particularly adventurous full day excursion to the San R... Read more»
Spring Newsletter April 2014
Welcome to our spring round-up of Latin America news and staff travel. In this issue: Office news | Last Frontiers' Top Three: Short cruises | Sue in Central America | Claire in Uruguay Office news Welcome back to Sue, who after breaking her leg badly (skiing, sadly not down a devilish black slop... Read more»
Claire in Uruguay
In late November I jumped at the chance to escape the cold for a week in South America’s second-smallest nation, Uruguay. In the shadows of neighbouring giants Argentina and Brazil, Uruguay’s more subtle charms are often overlooked but are nonetheless plentiful. I arrived just as the country was wak... Read more»
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