CUSCO REGION, PERU
Eight thousand feet above ocean level, this five-centuries-old pre-Columbian site was once home to the Incas. Until American student of history Hiram Bingham announced his discoveries of the region in a 1911 book called “Crosswise over South America,” the peak vestiges were generally obscure to anybody living outside of the close-by Cusco and Urubamba Valley.
MISIONES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA
Iguazú National Park, arranged on the worldwide outskirt of Argentina and Brazil, highlights one of the world’s most striking characteristic marvels. Iguazú Falls offers a cloudy and magnificent domain of surging, thundering water with rainbows decorating the falls, which extend for almost 2 miles. Experience this wonder very close from one of the wooden walkways that extend over the stream, and make certain to take in the marvelous vista from the goliath overhang of the “Demon’s Throat.” According to antiquated myths, an envious god cut the Iguazú River (signifying “awesome water”) in two, making falls as high as 269 feet. The UNESCO site is flanked by its sister park Iguaçu in Brazil, and the falls are encompassed by the rich Misiones rainforest, so expect to see tropical winged creatures fluttering about as they scan for fish in calmer waters.