Cultural Photography Tours & Trips in South America

Photograph Uyuni's white salt flats and around 3,000 terraced salt ponds at Maras, then check out Ollantaytambo's Inca stone temples. Capture Copacabana's Dark Indian Virgin shrine and Atacama Desert's Death Valley dunes at sunset, plus the 275 waterfalls at Iguazu Falls with gaucho folklore performances.

Tour the UNESCO World Heritage site of Machu Picchu at sunrise, a 15th-century Incan citadel sitting at 2,430 meters elevation. In the Galapagos, photograph giant tortogas at Isla Santa Cruz's Charles Darwin Research Station and marine iguanas at Devil's Crown volcanic cone off Floreana Island.

Head through Peru's Sacred Valley to see the pink salt ponds at Maras and the well-preserved Incan fortress at Ollantaytambo before going up to Machu Picchu. Take the Titicaca train from Cusco to Puno, see Iguazu Falls from both the Argentine and Brazilian sides, then catch sunset at Copacabana Beach.

Visit Chinchero's colonial church square where local weavers show traditional pre-Inca dyeing methods against old Inca stone walls. At Maras, see around 3,000 salt pools stepping down the mountainside where mineral water creates geometric patterns, then check out Moray's terraced amphitheater at sunset.