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Plan South America Specialists in upscale and adventure travel to Latin America and Antarctica. Specialists in luxury and offbeat travel.

Dedicated to the original, the inimitable, the private & boutique; the authentic & the best-kept secrets in Latin America & Antarctica.

Hidden corners of Santo Domingo through the lens of Victor Stonem. Founded in 1498, its Zona Colonial was the first perm...
05/10/2026

Hidden corners of Santo Domingo through the lens of Victor Stonem. Founded in 1498, its Zona Colonial was the first permanent European settlement in the Americas; behind its heavy wooden doors and grand façades are rooms crowded with religious art, carved saints, cool stone cloisters and exuberant tropical courtyards. Check into Casas del XVI, a collection of historic houses turned boutique hotel - one occupies part of a former Dominican convent - and save an evening for dinner and Mama Juana negronis at Olivier Bur’s excellent Restaurant & Espacio de investigación.

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Our founder and director, Harry Hastings, was recently invited by YOLO Journal to contribute a few favourites to their n...
28/09/2026

Our founder and director, Harry Hastings, was recently invited by YOLO Journal to contribute a few favourites to their new W**e Hotels List: a collection of the very best w**e country stays around the world, from grand estates to remote guesthouses and mirrored cabins amongst the vines.

A big thank you to the YOLO team for including Harry’s recommendations in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico. Read the full piece at the link in bio (subscribers only).

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22/09/2026

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There’s a new, ultra-private way to stay at Caiman • Pantanal, Brasil, the pioneering 53,000-hectare working ranch and c...
21/09/2026

There’s a new, ultra-private way to stay at Caiman • Pantanal, Brasil, the pioneering 53,000-hectare working ranch and conservation reserve in Brazil’s southern Pantanal.

Set 13km from the main lodge, Casa Cordilheira has seven bungalows arranged around a central house with an infinity pool overlooking the forest and grasslands. It comes with a private chef and 24/7 host, alongside its own safari vehicle and dedicated field guides for game drives, night safaris, forest walks and canoe trips.

Around it, cattle graze the open plains, Pantaneiro cowboys work on horseback, and the reserve has an incredible diversity of wildlife. The main draw is the elusive jaguar; once rarely seen here, years of dedicated conservation work by Onçafari have made Caiman one of the best places on Earth to see them in the wild. Caiman is also home to projects studying and protecting hyacinth macaws, tapirs and giant anteaters.

Discover more at the link in bio, or speak to our specialists.

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Home to a third of the world’s bird species, South America is the world’s great birding continent - from Tambopata, wher...
14/09/2026

Home to a third of the world’s bird species, South America is the world’s great birding continent - from Tambopata, where red-and-green macaws gather in their hundreds at clay licks at dawn, to the Andean cloud forest, where male cock-of-the-rocks strut their stuff in their famously raucous courtship displays.

In our latest Field Note, we share our guide to its best birding destinations: where to go, where to stay and what to look out for. Read more at the link in bio.

📸: Tomás Thibaud Cristalino Lodge

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Postcards from Argentina’s steamy, subtropical northeast at Estancia Don Joaquin, a fifth-generation family-run ranch in...
08/09/2026

Postcards from Argentina’s steamy, subtropical northeast at Estancia Don Joaquin, a fifth-generation family-run ranch in Corrientes, where cattle country stretches across huge grasslands broken up by marshes, lagoons and streams. Capybara, caiman, rheas and marsh deer share the landscape with with more than 350 species of bird, from jabiru storks to yellow cardinals and strange-tailed tyrants. A couple of hours away lie the Esteros del Iberá, one of the world’s great wetlands and home to Iberá National Park.

📸: Meredith Keffer

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In Peru’s Colca Valley, traditional dress is anything but understated: scarlet polleras, velvet jackets and bodices embr...
03/09/2026

In Peru’s Colca Valley, traditional dress is anything but understated: scarlet polleras, velvet jackets and bodices embroidered with flowers, birds and geometric motifs. The valley’s two historic peoples, the Collagua and Cabana, have their own distinctive styles, most visible in women’s hats and dress.

The making of these intricate textiles is a fine art, still carried out by hand: wool is drawn out between finger and thumb and spun into yarn on a drop spindle, before moving to the loom, where the threads are worked by hand.

📸: Regina Urizar

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Hidden in tropical forest at the quieter northern end of Santa Teresa, Casa Dewa might just be the coolest beach house i...
28/08/2026

Hidden in tropical forest at the quieter northern end of Santa Teresa, Casa Dewa might just be the coolest beach house in town. The six-bedroom villa is built around huge ironwood columns salvaged from the seabed off Indonesia, with a centuries-old Javanese rice barn incorporated into the upper floor. Inside, carved Indian antiques and pieces collected in Bali sit alongside furniture designed by the owner, former model and interior designer Carlota Dörring-Meadows.

There’s a pool and yoga shala, and a path through the garden leads straight onto 150 metres of white-sand beach, with one of the area’s best surf peaks out front. A few minutes away, Santa Teresa has gone from little-known surf outpost to lively beach town, with excellent restaurants, beach bars, boutiques and yoga studios lining the dusty road between jungle and Pacific.

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Rural Cuba through the eyes of Victor Cervantes | Photographer & Filmmaker 📽️, who spent more than a decade travelling t...
24/08/2026

Rural Cuba through the eyes of Victor Cervantes | Photographer & Filmmaker 📽️, who spent more than a decade travelling through the island’s countryside, visiting farms and to***co plantations and photographing those who work them. His photobook, ‘Cuba: The Whole Island’, is a deeply personal portrait of the land and meditation on Cuban identity.

“The island floats under its own weight, and within every Cuban there is a different country, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and lit by the brightest sun ever to rise in the sky.“
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Potosí sits high on Bolivia’s altiplano, beneath the looming outline of Cerro Rico. For centuries, this mountain was one...
17/08/2026

Potosí sits high on Bolivia’s altiplano, beneath the looming outline of Cerro Rico. For centuries, this mountain was one of the richest sources of silver on Earth. Its wealth built palaces, gilded churches and financed an empire; by the end of the 16th century, Potosí was larger and wealthier than London or Madrid.

That old silver economy is still visible in the city today, from its monumental Andean Baroque churches and grand merchants’ houses to the Royal Mint - now a museum - that fills an entire city block. Stay at 𝙷𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚘 𝙲𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚛𝚊 - 𝟷𝟻𝟻𝟽, a hacienda dating to 1557 just outside the city, with frescoed ceilings, a library of goatskin-bound books, muskets, duelling pistols and the 16th century armour of its very first owner.

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