Daniel Kordan’s Milky Way Reflections at Salar de Uyuni
A vehicle seems to float between two skies. Above it, the Milky Way stretches across the darkness; below it, the same light returns from an ...
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South America: Mountains, Water & Wonder
A dramatic ridge or a quiet stretch of water can change the way you imagine a place. Browse our South American archive for landscapes and discoveries, then explore related nature stories from around the world.
Start with Salar de Uyuni: Mirror Reflections or Dry Salt Patterns? and Chile’s Marble Caves: Planning a Visit from Río Tranquilo.
Ten Colourful Places Across Latin America: Cities, Heritage and an Oasis
South America’s cities and towns offer far more variety than a single label such as “vibrant” can capture. A desert oasis, a major metropoli...
Peru’s Colourful Andes: Ausangate, Vinicunca and the Mountain Landscape
The bands across Vinicunca look like broad strokes of earth pigment laid over a mountain ridge. Reds, ochres and paler layers make Peru’s Ra...
Jamie Ather’s Unexpected Brazil Booking and the Journey That Followed
Jamie Ather's unexpected trip began with an email confirmation he had not expected to receive. After a night out in Glasgow, he discover...
Jamie Ramsay’s Run through the Americas: Vancouver to Buenos Aires
Jamie Ramsay's journey began with a decision to make running part of how he explored the world. Starting in Vancouver in 2014, the Briti...
The Water-Powered Motorcycle Claim: Where the Energy Comes From
The promise sounded irresistible: a motorcycle travelling hundreds of kilometres on a litre of water. In 2015, a video of Brazilian inventor...
Catatumbo Lightning: Lake Maracaibo’s Repeated Thunderstorms
Lightning repeatedly illuminates the clouds around Lake Maracaibo, turning a dark waterside landscape into a brief, brilliant scene. The Cat...
Skylodge Adventure Suites, Peru: A Night Above the Sacred Valley
A transparent capsule fixed to a cliff makes the Sacred Valley feel almost like the wall of your bedroom. At Skylodge Adventure Suites, the ...
A Cat Appears During Romain Jantot’s Flight
The flight begins with two people enjoying the view from an open cockpit. Then another passenger appears: a cat, moving into sight above the...
Cabo Polonio, Uruguay: Dunes, a Lighthouse and Everyday Life
At Cabo Polonio, the approach is part of the experience. Dunes separate the coastal settlement from the main road, small buildings sit close...
Three Months in Bolivia: A Travel Photographer’s Landscape Diary
Water reflects a wide sky, mountains disappear into cloud and a small person changes the apparent size of an enormous landscape. Antony Harr...
Salar de Uyuni: Bolivia’s Salt Flat in Dry and Reflective Conditions
On a calm, wet day, Salar de Uyuni can turn the sky into a floor. In dry conditions, a different landscape appears: pale salt patterns, long...
Rio de Janeiro in Timelapse: Mountains, City Lights and Changing Skies
A broad city view can contain more than you notice at first: rows of roofs, narrow connections between buildings and changes in texture wher...
Cateura’s Recycled Orchestra: The Craft and Teaching Behind the Music
A discarded object can look entirely different when someone knows how to work with it. In the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, that transforma...
Iquitos: Amazon River Life and the City Beyond the Road Network
Iquitos is often introduced with a striking fact: you cannot drive there from the rest of Peru’s main national road network. That is useful ...
Salar de Uyuni: The Mirror Landscape and the Ground beneath It
One cloud floats above your head; another seems to float beneath your boots. At Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, a shallow covering of water can tu...
Lilica’s Food-Carrying Journey in São Carlos
A dog carrying a bag of food makes a simple, memorable image. In the story that circulated in 2014, Lilica travelled from a junkyard in São ...
San Alfonso del Mar, Chile: The Lagoon Beside the Pacific
A broad ribbon of blue stretches between apartment buildings and the Pacific coast. At San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo, Chile, the artifici...
Brazil’s Snake Island: The Golden Lancehead and Its Limited Habitat
Ilha da Queimada Grande is usually introduced with a nickname designed to make you stop scrolling: Snake Island. The real story is more inte...
Lee Thompson’s Christ the Redeemer Photograph: The Story behind the View
Lee Thompson’s photograph places a familiar face in an astonishing position: emerging from the top of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer s...