Group - Discovery

Pato Andino: Panorama of the Andes

20 days from £4,782pp

(based on two people sharing & excluding flights)

Argentina / Chile / Bolivia / Lake Titicaca / Peru

  • Uyuni Salt Flats
  • Moon Valley
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Overview & Highlights

This adventurous Andean group journey crosses traverses South America’s wilderness landscapes from Argentina through Chile and Bolivia to Peru. Explore the Atacama Desert, travel across the Uyuni salt flats and on to Lake Titicaca, Cusco and Machu Picchu.

A true wilderness adventure, this journey explores one of the world’s most dramatic and ethereally beautiful mountain ranges: the Andes. Setting off from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, you head northwest to the cultured colonial city of Salta below the foothills of the Andes. Ascend a lonely, precipitous and sinuous cactus-dotted road which crosses the icy range into Chile. Traverse the Atacama desert, the driest on earth, past snow-capped volcanoes and across shimmering salt flats into Bolivia. 

Skirting the sapphire waters of Lake Titicaca, you cross the chilly plains of the altiplano before descending into the fertile valleys surrounding the ancient Inca capital of Cusco, visiting traditional adobe villages and open air markets. The climax to this epic journey is the sight of the spectacular Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, crouching on an Andean mountain saddle.

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  • Buenos Aires: guided city tour
  • Salta countryside excursion
  • San Pedro de Atacama: Moon Valley
  • Uyuni Salt Flats: Laguna Colorada and other excursions
  • La Paz: city tour
  • Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca
  • Cusco: guided city tour with Sacsayhuamán
  • Sacred Valley of the Incas
  • Guided tour of Machu Picchu
  • Lima: walking tour

THE UK’S NO. 1 SPECIALIST IN TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA

Elizabeth Luck

Elizabeth Luck

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Holiday Extensions

If there's somewhere you particularly want to go that isn't included in this tour, we can add on an extension to take you there.

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What our clients say

  • The Bolivian deserts and salt flats, I found a new favourite country in South America. Outstanding scenery, the night sky with a full and clear sight of the Milky Way, several planets and a myriad of stars, friendly people and an area which I had little prior knowledge of.

    BD, Hartlepool
    Oct 2016
  • Iguazu Falls were out of this world. Machu Picchu was very special and the desert was amazing.

    IM, Solihull
    Jul 2019
  • Would be wrong to say a most memorable. Everyday was amazing. Machu Picchu was my fave. That's because I've always wanted to go there. 100's of memories all good. From places to even just having dinner with the group. Had some one in a million moments.

    SW, Crewe
    Nov 2017
  • This tour gives an excellent overall impression of each country visited.... leaving the option of digging deeper on future trips.

    SP, Bracknell
    Oct 2019
  • Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? (Tennyson). I had long dreamt of travelling to South America, so I booked and went, and my dreams came true. The dreams were wondrous while they lasted and although now inevitably they start to fade, into their place comes a welter of brilliant, enduring, magical memories. And so the theme of this letter is thank you JLA!

    PM, Hampstead
    Sep 2013
  • There were many highlights: Machu Picchu of course, also the Uyuni salt flats was unworldly, unique. La Paz, crazy city. Lake Titicaca beautiful. Great food almost everywhere. Stunning landscapes.

    MC, Ely
    Apr 2018
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Our expert's view

Elizabeth Luck
Elizabeth Luck - Tour Leader

Our qualified tour leaders are Latin American specialists all of whom have travelled widely in the region. Book with Journey Latin America.

This route gives a fantastic taste of the variety of landscapes and cultures that exist in South America. From bustling cities to unimaginably vast deserts, historical ruins and indigenous villages. An epic journey full of highlights.

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Meet our team

Real Latin american experts

  • Hannah
    Hannah Waterhouse - Travel Expert

    Hannah had an early introduction to Latin America when her family moved to Ecuador and she returned to study in Buenos Aires for a year before backpacking across the continent.

  • Chris
    Chris Rendell-Dunn - Travel Expert

    Anglo-Peruvian Chris grew up in Lima and spent much of his adult life in between London and Cusco as a tour leader, before settling permanently in our London-based Tailor-made and Group Tours sales team.

  • Carrie
    Carrie Gallagher - Travel Expert

    A former JLA tour leader, Carrie brings a wealth of on-the-ground experience to our London-based Tailor-made and Group Tours department.

  • Mary
    Mary Anne Nelson - Travel Expert

    Born in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, Mary’s insider knowledge and dry sense of humour make her a highly valued member of the Tailor-made Holidays and Group Tour sales team.

  • Lina
    Lina Fuller - Travel Expert

    Lina's passion for the continent where she was born really took off when she moved to Córdoba (Argentina) to study, spending the holidays travelling between Argentina and her native Colombia.

  • Kathryn
    Kathryn Rhodes - Travel Expert

    Kathryn backpacked across Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru before joining us. She has a degree in Philosophy and French and is a keen netball player.

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