Chile
Chilean people are just about the friendliest people I have ever met. I picked up a few hitchhikers: all of them were keen to meet for drinks and dinner and converse with me and my
Mexico
Mexico is a hidden gem. A super diverse country with a great many species that are barely known. A trip here is always an adventure.
Costa Rica
I first visited Costa Rica in 2010 and have returned several times. It offers some of the best and most accessible mammalwatching in Central America as well as plenty of opportunit
Colombia
Colombia is a mammalwatching paradise. It is ridiculously diverse, with about 460 species of mammals a ton of which are endemic. Add the friendliest people I've ever met and delici
Brazil
I’ve visited Brazil four times. In October 2006 I spent six days in the western Amazon, at the Palmari Lodge. In August 2007 I returned for two and a half weeks and visited Rio C
Ecuador
I have visited Ecuador three times: in August 2012 for a week to see Spectacled Bears and Mountain Tapirs in the Andes, and then to the Napo Valley; and for a long weekend in Septe
Peru
I've visited Peru twice. In 2014 I spent a week with my son at Chaparri Lodge, in Lambayeque, and Tapiche Reserve in Loreto. See my 2014 report. I returned in 2019 to help Fiona Re
Argentina
I have been to Argentina several times and it is one of my favourite countries in South America, amid very stiff competition. Superb mammalwatching combined with some world class f
