This handbook, in its 74th edition and a Thomas Cook Best Travel Guide, provides detailed and practical travel information on South America. The region has much to offer the visitor, from the Caribbean culture of the northern countries of Colombia and Venezuela to the vastness of the southern cone countries of Chile and Argentina. Ancient sites can be explored such as Machu Picchu, or modern cities like Buenos Aires and colonial towns such as Cartegena. The guidebook contains practical travel facts, maps and background information and covers the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Galapagos, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and The Guianas.