Cross painted altiplano where Andean peaks guard glassy lakes. Watch flocks sweep the flamingo lagoons and see rust-red Laguna Colorada freckled with white borax islands—wild colour at serious altitude.

Climb to near-5,000 metres for hissing fumaroles and bubbling mud pots, then sink into mineral hot springs with a skyline of volcanoes. The air is thin, the light razor-sharp, and the drama all natural.

Chase the glow on a Vallecito sunset outing, watching pink-and-ochre ridges sharpen as the sun drops over salt-crusted flats. Short walks lead to overlooks where the desert’s silence steals the scene.

Guides share the valley’s geology while you frame golden-hour photos and toast the day’s last light. Stars often bloom fast here. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Join an Argentine Sherpa dinner for a hosted deep-dive into local flavours and table culture. Expect shared plates that spotlight fire-cooked meats, seasonal vegetables and bright sauces, with tips on mastering marinades and asado rituals.

It’s intimate, engaging and delicious—part tasting, part storytelling about the city’s food obsessions. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Savour a classic evening of cuisine and dance at a dinner & tango show, where a live orquesta típica drives the drama as dancers cut crisp lines, pivots and ganchos.

Between courses, the story of Buenos Aires unfurls in song and movement—from barrio romance to stage-lit spectacle. Elegant, emotive and perfectly porteño. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

• 4 Dinner (D)
• 10 Breakfast (B)
• 2 Lunch (L)

• La Paz: Tuck into a 3-course set menu at Manq’a (“food” in Aymara), a seriously cool restaurant with a big heart. Your meal supports culinary training and better opportunities for vulnerable youth, while championing sustainable, fairly priced local produce and proud cultural food traditions.
• La Paz: See the city through the eyes of masked shoe shiners (these are the people who keep La Paz moving). Expect a walking tour that goes beyond the usual sights, with real stories about daily life, stigma, and informal work, all while supporting community projects that back shoe shiners and their families.
• La Paz: Leave La Paz after dark and roll into Sucre on a 13-hour overnight journey. Oh yeah, and there are comfy reclining seats on this ride!
• Sucre: Get your bearings in Bolivia’s “White City”. Wandering the colonial centre with its elegant plazas, architecture, and easy-going vibe. Then you can grab a proper local bite at Salteñería El Patio — Sucre’s go-to for juicy salteñas in a classic courtyard setting.
• Potosi: Walk the UNESCO-listed historic centre where grand churches and cobbled streets meet the shadow of Cerro Rico. Expect a loop through Plaza 10 de Noviembre, plus time to dive into the Casa Nacional de la Moneda — the former mint turned museum that tells the story behind Potosí’s wealth (and its cost).
• Potosi: Head to a local ex-miner’s home for a home-cooked meal and a no-filter chat about life in the mines. You’ll enjoy local dishes like quinoa soup and potatoes, plus get a deeper look at the challenges (and resilience) behind this tough line of work.
• Uyuni: Roll through Uyuni’s high-altitude outpost vibes — dusty streets, a lively plaza, and market stalls with llama wool and quinoa on repeat. It’s the rugged launchpad for what you came for… and your Trip Manager will help you get orientated before the big landscapes take over.
• Uyuni Salt Flat: Near the Uyuni Salt Flats, this special stay is made out of salt. Yep, actual salt. It’s an accommodation with a seriously unique twist, serving up a stay in one of South America’s most surreal landscapes. Geological icon meets human ingenuity. Not a bad combo for a night on the trip!
• Salta: Wander around Plaza 9 de Julio and the city’s leafy, pastel-lined streets, taking in the cathedral and the glow of San Francisco Church. As evening hits, you’ll have the chance to soak in the local peña scene (think folk music energy and regional flavours).
• Buenos Aires: Head out with your Trip Manager to get the lay of the land — key spots, neighbourhood vibes, and the best ways to spend your free time. 

• Mexico City: You’ll now book and pay for your Free Time Add-Ons through WeTravel — a simple website link where you can browse all the FTAs, pick what you’re keen on, and pay directly by card, in any currency. You’ll get the link in your Welcome Email, usually 3–5 days before your trip starts. Once you’re in, it’s easy: check out the pics, descriptions and prices, add your chosen experiences to your cart, then check out online. You can book before your trip starts or while you’re on the road, up until each activity’s booking deadline.Missed the link? No stress. Your Trip Manager can share it with you on trip too.

Walk the elegant core of Sucre’s “White City”, where chalk-bright facades, red-tiled roofs and cool cloisters frame leafy squares. Get your bearings around Plaza 25 de Mayo and the arcaded streets, noting viewpoints like the La Recoleta ridge for golden-hour panoramas over domes and bell towers.

Unravel Sucre’s role in independence and the preservation of Spanish-Andean styles as you pass small museums and courtyards. The tempo is relaxed, the light is flattering, and the city’s grace comes through in the details.

Explore the UNESCO-listed historic centre of Potosí, where baroque facades and cobbles sit under the shadow of Cerro Rico. Circle Plaza 10 de Noviembre for cathedral views and market buzz before stepping inside the monumental Casa Nacional de la Moneda.

In the former royal mint, courtyards and heavy wooden presses reveal how silver wealth flowed to the world—and at what human cost. It’s a layered encounter with empire, extraction and resilience in the high Andes.

Share a warm home-cooked meal with an ex-miner’s family, where dishes like quinoa soup, potatoes and seasonal stews carry the flavours of the Altiplano. Conversation flows as you learn how households navigate life in the world’s highest former boomtown.

Stories of Cerro Rico, local traditions and community networks add heart to the city’s history, offering perspective that’s as nourishing as the food on your plate.

Stroll this high-altitude outpost on an orientation walk, taking in the central plaza, adobe storefronts and open-air markets piled with llama wool and quinoa. Your Trip Manager points out handy spots for supplies before the big landscapes begin.

Feel the dry, salty breeze and the town’s frontier mood—Uyuni is a launchpad to the salar, and its simple streets hint at the adventure stretching to the horizon.

Venture by 4×4 onto the mirror-bright Salar de Uyuni, starting among the skeletal engines of the Train Cemetery and the salt-workers’ village of Colchani. Picnic with flags snapping in the wind as the white horizon swallows every edge.

Walk cactus-studded Incahuasi Island, capture playful perspective shots on the hexagonal crust and chase a burnished sunset over the salar. Few places reset your sense of scale quite like this otherworldly basin.

Orient yourself around Plaza 9 de Julio, where jacarandas shade cafes and pastel facades glow. Admire the pink-cream Cathedral and the russet-and-gold Iglesia San Francisco, two landmarks that define this handsome colonial core.

Learn how Spanish and Andean influences mingle in architecture and cuisine as arcades open onto friendly squares. This relaxed walk leaves you primed for museums, markets and a late-rising local rhythm.

Join an orientation through character-rich barrios—antique-hunting San Telmo, colour-splashed La Boca’s Caminito, stately Recoleta and leafy Palermo. Get practical tips on getting around, safety and where to find standout coffee, helado and steak.

Hear how European avenues meet Latin energy, with murals, bookshops and corner bodegones shaping the city’s everyday poetry. You’ll finish with a mental map and plenty of ideas for the hours ahead.

Glide above the city on Mi Teleférico, riding panoramic gondolas between El Alto and the canyon floor as Mount Illimani presides over a sea of brick and blue sky. It’s transport turned spectacle, revealing La Paz’s vertical drama in motion.

Learn how this pioneering urban cable car knits together neighbourhoods while you capture far-reaching vistas. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Explore Valle de la Luna, a maze of eroded clay chimneys and moon-like badlands sculpted by wind and rain. Trails weave among spires and gullies where silence amplifies every footfall and the Andes feel close enough to touch.

Guides explain how soft sediments became this surreal landscape, with viewpoints perfect for photos. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Witness the spectacle of the Fighting Cholitas in El Alto, where athleticism, humour and tradition collide. Skirts whirl—those iconic pollera layers—beneath bowler hats as wrestlers flip, feint and fly to an Andean pop soundtrack.

This is more than ringside fun; it’s a stage for pride and visibility in Aymara culture. Expect cheers, gasps and big personality. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Hike into the folded rock basin of the Maragua Crater, tracing colourful strata shaped by time and tectonics. Local guides lead the way to slabs marked with dinosaur footprints, startlingly crisp impressions from a vanished world.

Pass Quechua hamlets and weaving cooperatives for a fuller sense of rural life amid grand geology. Moderate fitness recommended. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Step carefully into a cooperative mine beneath Cerro Rico to learn how ore is extracted today in narrow galleries. With helmets and lamps, meet miners, hear about coca, offerings and the harsh arithmetic of work at altitude.

The visit foregrounds safety and respect while illuminating centuries of silver that bankrolled empires. Not suitable for those uncomfortable in confined spaces. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Kick up desert dust as you try sandboarding on sweeping Atacama dunes. After a quick briefing, strap in and carve soft slopes with views to serrated ridgelines and distant volcanoes.

All equipment is provided, and guides help you progress from glide to carve at your pace. Expect sandy smiles and adrenaline. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Settle into a traditional peña where guitars, bombo drums and voices lift classic folk music—zamba and chacarera—between bites of regional dishes like empanadas salteñas and hearty stews.

The room is convivial and participatory, with locals clapping rhythms and sometimes dancing. It’s a warm window into northwest Argentina’s culture. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Escape to Tigre to explore the lush Paraná Delta, a water-world of islands, reeds and wooden stilt houses. Glide on a relaxed boat ride along calm channels and watch weekend life unfold on the riverbanks.

Stroll the riverside and browse the Puerto de Frutos market for crafts and local snacks before returning to the capital. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Join a guided city tour led by La Paz’s masked shoe shiners for a candid look at daily life beyond the postcard views. Trace the capital’s contours from Plaza Murillo to San Francisco Church, and weave into the stalls of the Witches’ Market where apothecaries sell herbs, charms and ritual offerings.

Hear first-hand about work, dignity and urban change as the city climbs its canyon walls. This community-backed experience reframes familiar landmarks with local voices, context and wit.

Contiki

Taste Bolivia at Manq’a, a culinary social enterprise where a three-course set menu celebrates seasonal Andean produce and time-honoured techniques. Arrive ready to meet your Tour Director and your fellow travellers over plates that might feature quinoa, native tubers and bright ají sauces rooted in Aymara culinary traditions.

Hear how Manq’a trains local youth and champions equitable supply chains while you enjoy warm, convivial restaurant energy. It’s an experience that pairs flavour with purpose, introducing the capital’s food scene through stories of community, resilience and pride.