Pukara Adventures

So you’re planning your first trip to South America and making all the preparations necessary for an international trip. But, have you thought about what drinks you’ll be ordering in the many fine bars that are rife in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile and all the other great nations of this amazing continent?

If you’re lucky enough to live in or near a great bar and restaurant town with a heavy international cast, you might start by going into the kind of Latin American bars and restaurants that sometimes have standing globes in them. These days many — perhaps most — decent bartenders know how to make a Pisco Sour. Pisco is a sort of brandy and the sour is a pretty close relative of the North American whiskey sour, which uses fresh lemon juice in its Chilean variation and fresh lime juice and egg white in its Peruvian incarnation.

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South America has much to offer to a traveler who loves to see exotic things. As a child you had learnt of the great Inca civilization. Why not plan a “Travelling to South America” holiday; it will be fun, it will be an adventure travel that you would remember for a long time afterwards.

Go back into history; start your encounter with trekking in the tracts of mountains of Patagonia, follow the famous Inca trail to Machu Picchu at over 10,000 feet above sea level. See the terrace cultivation in the sacred valley of the Incas. Also buy colorful articles hand made by local population that is still devoted to ‘Pachamam” (Mother Earth) as souvenirs. You will find here that the past (history) meets the present. With the help of professional organizers you could even get the thrill of local hospitality.

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Adventure Travel in South America can be understood in many ways but I would like to focus in one of the possibilities. Let’s say you are in a career break in your life, let’s say you have some spare time, let’s say it has come the point in which you want to take this once-a-lifetime trip to discover a continent you are passionate about. What would you do? Well, here you are going to find a good proposal.

There is a company which is organizing trips on the 5 continents around the world. They are not what I would call “adventure travel“, but they are the kind of off-the-beaten-path ones. Traveling with them means you are going to find yourself in a kind of real tourism, sleeping many times in guest houses but not in luxury hotels, doing some easy-level treks and using many means of local transport. You shouldn’t go there if you are expecting luxury, but if you are looking to discover the real country life and go face to face with nature and local culture, then it is a must do activity.

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