Argentina's most accessible great glacier is a short shuttle ride from the car park, but fees, trek age limits and timing decide how good your day is. Here is what it costs now and how to plan it.
The world's largest tropical wetland is the one place to plan a trip around seeing a wild jaguar. How the Porto Jofre boat safaris work, what they cost, and when the river delivers.
No more than 100 passengers may stand ashore at once anywhere in Antarctica. How that rule shapes every expedition cruise — choosing ship size, crossing the Drake or flying it, and picking your month.
For roughly four months a year a film of rain turns the world's largest salt flat into a mirror. How to time the wet and dry seasons, choose between a day trip and the three-day 4x4 loop, and cope with 3,656 metres of altitude.
Brazil's white dune field fills with turquoise rain lagoons for a few months each year and then loses them to the sun. Here is how to time the visit, choose a gateway and follow the park rules.
Chile's flagship Patagonian park runs on strict rules: no flames anywhere, tickets bought online in advance, and refugios reserved months ahead. Here is how to plan it properly.
Fernando de Noronha rewards deliberate planning: two separate visitor charges, limited tide-pool slots and seasonal seas shape everything from your beach choice to the length of your stay.
Where a city of samba, sand and granite peaks gives way, two hours down the Costa Verde, to a car-free island of rainforest and impossibly clear water.
Granite towers, calving glaciers and a wind that never stops — a walker's guide to the W and O circuits of Torres del Paine and the Fitz Roy trails of El Chaltén.