Explore the vibrancy of South America by cruise ship or cruise amongst the icy wilderness of Antarctica for an unforgettable experience.
The exuberant city of Rio de Janeiro welcomes visitors with fabulous beaches, a colourful sense of carnival and the superb vista of Sugar Loaf Mountain and the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are stylish and stately, with elegant mansions, broad boulevards and grand plazas.
Adventures into the interior of this vast continent bring explorations deep into the Amazon rainforest from Manaus, Brazil, with its astounding wealth of tropical wildlife and dense forest.
The ancient mountain city of Macchu Picchu, the spectacular ‘lost city’ of the Incan empire can be visited from Lima, Peru. The vast steppes of Patagonia and the high mountains of the Andes provide breathtaking scenery and the southern tip of the Americas also boasts impressive fjords, ice-fields and glaciers.
Few people get the chance to cruise the islands of the South Atlantic, but these havens for wildlife make for a fascinating visit. The Falklands are host to large colonies of seabirds, sea lions, huge elephant seals and inquisitive penguins.
Further south are the Antarctic islands of Half Moon and Deception, where fire and ice meet creating the dramatic landscape of steaming beaches, ash-layered glaciers, volcanic slopes and extraordinary icebergs.
Deception Island, one of the South Shetland Islands, has one of the most sheltered harbours in Antarctica being one of the only places in the world where vessels can cruise directly into the centre of a restless volcano.
For a wide selection of Antarctic adventure cruises, visit our Cruising Holidays sister website.
View our live South America cruise webcams to see which ships are in port
Take a virtual tour of South America using our Google Earth cruise and see the ports often visited.
If you do not have Google Earth on your computer go to our Google Earth info pages for a step by step guide |
