South America
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Meg Yash, Timbuktu Travel
With nearly 20 years in the travel industry, Meg Yash specializes in adventure travel across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Drawing on a background in international development, she designs travel rooted in ethical, sustainable practices, guiding newcomers and seasoned travelers alike toward off-the-beaten-path, immersive experiences in nature.
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Buenos Aires Black Book
Buenos Aires can feel like a lot at first: grand yet gritty, European flair in a distinctly Latin setting, a thriving creative culture, proud culinary traditions, nights that start late and end later…To navigate the shifting energy, we asked 16 insiders to share the code to porteño culture.
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Vanessa Bell, founder of Crème de la Crème
Vanessa Bell spent years moving between continents before settling in Buenos Aires 16 years ago. Sensing a need for a more nuanced view of the city, Vanessa founded Crème de la Crème, curating deeply personal, insider itineraries.
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Road Trip: From Patagonia to Santiago, Chile
Starting in Punta Arenas, photographer Thom Fortune follows the light—from the windswept glaciers of southern Patagonia through the gaucho heartlands of Torres del Paine, before heading north to the old-money seaside town of Zapallar and ending in the Chilean capital.
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Dispatch from José Ignacio & Garzón, Uruguay
For nearly 20 years Donna Lennard, owner and founder of NYC’s Il Buco, has returned to Uruguay’s low-key coast whenever she needs a refuge. What began as a stay with her friend, the chef Francis Mallmann, grew into a love of the gaucho town of Garzón and the stretch from José Ignacio to La Barra.
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Dispatch from Ecuador
On a wildly varied journey spanning mountains, rainforest and sea, Orson Fry traced a line from the historical splendor of Quito to the misty canopy of Mashpi and the volcanic islands of the Galápagos.
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Dispatch From Otavalo, Ecuador
When she was in college, Blythe Harris lived with a family of indigenous hatmakers in the highlands market town of Otavalo in the Andes Mountains. Three decades later, on a detour from Quito, she returned for an unexpected reunion to discover a still-thriving traditional craft culture.
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Patagonia Road Trip
Nanda and Max Haensel set off on a 2,500-mile loop through Southern Chile and Argentina with toddlers in tow—no screens, just crayons, picture books and the open road. Along the iconic Ruta 7, they discovered that the planet’s wildest frontiers can stir a sense of adventure and discovery, even in the smallest travelers.
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Dispatch from Itacaré
Despite its pull among an elite set of globe-trotting Swedes and world-class Brazilian surfers, Itacaré, a bohemian enclave on the Bahia coast, has managed to stay both under-the-radar and refreshingly low-key. Siobhan Reid landed a stay at Barracuda, with its barefoot wooden villas and treehouses that combine the best of Brazilian design and Scandinavian minimalism.