Last Frontiers' articles for any country (Press articles)
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Latin lap of luxury (Douglas Rogers, October 2005)
Argentina is sexy again thanks to a range of cheap hotels opening across the country, says Douglas Rogers. There's more to Argentina than tango and gauchos. After four years in the economic doldrums, the country is once again the sexiest destination in South America. A slate of chic new hotels in B... Read more»
Green heart of a lost world - John Gimlette in Guyana
Fifty-eight miles from anywhere we stopped at a village called "58''. It was a pretty place, tucked into the lee of a forest the size of Britain.Everybody had a pastel hut, a bicycle and a bow and arrows. We had horses once, they told us, but the jaguars ate them. Nowadays, 58 is best-known for its... Read more»
Sophie Campbell visits the Tigre Delta
There was a school party on the river bus. Chattering pupils, wearing life jackets as nonchalantly as British children might wear blazers, dumped their packs and got out cards. White-coated teachers studied their payslips.I leant on a warm ledge of varnished wood and reflected upon my last visit to... Read more»
Sophie Campbell explores Salta province
Foggy? It's not meant to be foggy. In my mind, the province of Salta, in north-west Argentina, is hot orange and red; somewhere you can fry a steak on your horse's rump.But it is foggy. So much so that the plane takes a dummy run at the tarmac and zooms up again and into the fog.Somewhere around us... Read more»
In the jungles of Venezuela, the anaconda awaits (Simon Hacker)
It can’t be much fun being Eunectes murinus. When you’re not being eyed up as a supplier for next autumn’s range of handbags, some macho tourist is hoping you’ll play a cameo role in his holiday snaps. No wonder they have a notoriously nasty temper.Tourists and scary animals are getting increasingly... Read more»
A handful that just might be more than dust (Nick Gordon, January 2004)
Nick Gordon sees two faces of Brazil - the Chapada Diamantina park and a favela in RioIt doesn't take long, less than 24 hours, for me to be offered a handful of diamonds. I hear a whistle, see a local pushing a bike and am given what I take to be a staged conspiratorial look, something between a to... Read more»
A new chapter in the jungle book (Nick Thorpe)
Over a smouldering fire in a small clearing on the forested banks of the Orinoco, Marco Martinez is roasting his new canoe."It took me three days to find the right tree," the Warao navigator tells me proudly, wiping a sooty hand across his forehead and leaving a streak like war paint. "I slept out i... Read more»
With the cowboys of Patagonia (Jasper Winn)
Chile's chunk of Patagonia is ridden by some of the world's hardiest cowboys, men who use tough criollo horses to herd cattle across the weather-thrashed pampas, or to carry provisions into the remote, roadless camps of the mountainous Torres del Paine. Seven of us had booked to ride with a bunch of... Read more»