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Viva Expeditions Have Fantastic Offer For 2017 Tour Of South America

Friday 8 July 2016, 12:25PM

By Beckie Wright

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Viva Expeditions are offering $1000 off their 2017 Small Group Escorted Tour of South America for all bookings made before 31 July this year.  This amazing 23 day tour takes in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Iguazu Falls and Peru. This small group tour of just 20 is perfect for those looking to travel with a group of like-minded individuals, and the Viva Expeditions team have left no stone unturned in giving travellers the best value group travel trip in the market. This tour is accompanied at all times with a tour escort and single travellers are welcome and can share with someone of the same sex at no additional cost.

Arriving in Buenos Aires visitors experience a full day tour of the city, followed by a trip to the Argentinean side of Iguazu Falls and the next day visiting the Brazilian side. Day five sees them fly to Rio de Janeiro and the following day they will experience an eight hour tour of Corcovado Hill and the statue of Christ the Redeemer, and the famous Sugarloaf. Day seven gives travellers the chance to relax on Ipanema or Copacabana beach with maybe a trip to the favelas.

From Rio de Janeiro the tour moves on to Lima in Peru, taking in the ‘City of Kings’, visiting a number of well-known sites featuring Lima’s magnificent colonial architecture. The tenth day travellers fly from Lima to Puno, stopping on the way at Sillustani, one of the most important necropolises in the world. From here on Day eleven they travel to the floating islands of Uros and to Taquile Island, a tour of some ten hours. From Puno they travel to Cusco, through Andean villages past spectacular snow-capped mountains, sheer cliffs and rampaging rivers.

Day thirteen takes in the Sacred Valley Full Day tour, ending in Ollantaytambo, the best surviving example of an Inca town, and the next day a train takes visitors to Aguas Calientes, the site of Machu Picchu. Those wanting to climb Huayna Picchu need to pre-book their permit. Next day provides a sightseeing tour through Cusco, followed by a day at leisure. Flying out of Cusco, visitors are welcomed at Refugio Amazonas after a two and a half hour boat journey. The next two days are spent out on the lake to take in the natural sights and sounds of the Amazon’s flora and fauna. The next day is spent flying to Lima with a free day to explore the city, and then on to Santiago for the last full day of the tour.

This fantastic offer includes international flights, internal flights, airport transfers and 22 nights twin-share accommodation with private en-suite facilities, all for $13,700,so for more information on this and other great Latin American tours, please go to http://www.vivaexpeditions.com.