Next month I am finally going to have 2 weeks off in a row from work, which means discovery time for me #yeah 😎 Originally I had Asia in my mind again since I am still impressed from my recent South Asia trip last year. However, I am also intrigued to get to know a new continent and my choice ended up with South America!! 
I have never been to this continent and there are so many beautiful countries to be visited. I definitely would need more than 2weeks!!
Nevertheless, I try to schedule in as much as I can. Surely, I won’t be able to explore everything into depth as I would personally prefer, but still good enough for having a first impression and if I like it I can always come back 😀
Limiting the countries, where I am going to visit on my first ever South American trip wasn’t an easy decision but Peru, with its Inca Trail, has been always on my top destination list.
There aren’t that many airlines that offers non-stop direct flies to Lima from Europe. Hence, I have decided to fly in to Colombia first, and then fly out from there to Peru before flying back home from Argentina. 
Below you will find how my current South America itinerary roughly looks like – please feel free to add any suggestions or ideas in the comment section that you think I definitely have to visit or maybe you have a different suggestion on how to travel best from A to B or an accommodation or a restaurant tip 😉
DAY 1 Germany (FRA) → (BOG) Bogota
- Check-Into the hotel, resting from any possible jet-lags
DAY 2 Bogota
- Gold Museum
- Bolivar Square
- Mount Monserrate
DAY 3 Bogota (BOG) → (CUZ) Cusco
- One flight per day 07:44 → 11:12 (3.5hish)
- POI in Cusco
- Cuzco Cathedral
- Qurikancha
- Puka Pukara
- Tambomachay
DAY 4 Sacred Valley of the Inca (DAY – TRIP)
DAY 5 Machu Picchu (DAY – TRIP)
DAY 6 Cusco (CUZ) → (LIM) Lima
- POI in Lima
- Miraflores
- Centro Historico de Lima (neighbourhood)
- Circuito Magico del Agua (evening)
DAY 7 Lima (LIM) → (IGU) Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil Side)
- Daily direct flights (except on Monday & Wednesday) 12:35 → 18:30
DAY 8 Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil Side)
- Open daily from 09:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m.
- Tickets R$ 64,30 each for adults and R$ 10,50 each for children under 12 years old
- Boat trip is included with the entrance ticket, but only runs for the first 1,000 passengers, or until 15:15. It can close as early as 11:45.
- To visit the falls, you need to take the Parque Nacional bus (number 120) → National Park bus stop; it costs R$ 3.45 and you pay it in the bus
- Special double-decker buses shuttle visitors to the falls area:
- These buses arrive and depart every 20 minutes. When the park is full be ready for lines.
- The buses stop first at the the Poço Preto Trail (Black Well Trail); secondly at Trilha das Bananeiras – Bananeiras Trail and the Macuco Safari and Boat Trip Station site; thirdly at the beginning of the observation trail (in front of the Hotel das Cataratas – Belmond) which leads to the largest of the falls, the area called Devil’s Throat; and thirdly at the restaurants and souvenir shops located at the end of the trail.
- Iguazu Falls
- Foz do Iguaçu →Puerto Iguazu (Argentina Side) → hotel check-in
DAY 9 Puerto Iguazu (Argentina Side)
- Open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- To visit the falls, catch the Parque Nacional/CATARATAS bus in Puerto Iguazu Argentina P$ 65.00 (cash only)
- Short ride on the open-air ECOLOGICAL JUNGLE TRAIN through the rainforest
- Devil’s Throat – Garganta del Diablo (2hish)
DAY 10 Puerto Iguazu (IGR) → (EZE) Buenos Aires
- One flight per day 18:25 → 20:25 apart from TUE & THU 20:10 → 22:10
DAY 11 Buenos Aires
- Argentine National Congress
- Plaza de Mayo (surrounded by the Casa Rosada, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the splendid Cabildo)
- Avenida 9 de Julio → Colon Theater
- Tango Porteno
- La Boca and San Telmo (oldest neighbourhoods),
- RECOLETA CEMETERY (Eva Peron)
- Palermo (neighbourhood)
- Puente de la Mujer
- Floralis Generica
DAY 12 Buenos Aires
- Day Trip
- Tigre Delta
- Colonia del Sacramento (fast ferry Colonia Express, 1hish)
DAY 13 Buenos Aires
Day 14 Buenos Aires (EZE) → (FRA) Germany
- 17:15 →11:30
My South America Itinerary is inspired based on the following sources
I am not sure how feasible everything will look like in reality. And since this is my first roughly plan, changes here and there might also be made. I am also bit intrigued to somehow fit in Rio de Janeiro within this trip but then again, my itinerary already looks bit tight and then I don’t think I might enjoy my holiday since it would be just rushing from one place to another.
I will surely post a separate post about my experience after my this trip. So stay tuned.
