The Caribbean & Latin America

November to April aligns the Caribbean dry season with the Patagonian summer — the ideal window for both halves.

It is as active as you wish. Guiding ranges from gentle valley walks to full-day glacier treks, calibrated to your party.

Yes — the Americas offer many threads. Your advisor can weave in the Amazon, the Galápagos or the Atacama in place of any segment.

In Cartagena, you dine within the walls of a restored colonial mansion that is opened privately for your party. It sets the tone for the journey's opening chapter: colonial Cartagena by candlelight, the gold light of a walled colonial city, and candlelit plazas before the journey turns south toward the glaciers and wind-carved silence of Patagonia.

A private yacht threads the San Blas archipelago, passing empty cays, Guna villages and water the colour of glass. It is one of the signature moments of this Caribbean and Latin America journey, alongside a catamaran to cays without a name and an evening on a beach the tide owns rather than a resort.

In Patagonia, you stand before the Torres del Paine massif from a private lodge as the weather rewrites the sky by the hour. Guiding can range from gentle valley walks to full-day glacier treks, calibrated to your party, so the southern Andes can be taken quietly or actively in this raw, wind-scoured landscape.

Beyond the resort grid, the Caribbean's most beautiful days are the ones a brochure cannot sell: a staffed villa above an empty bay, a catamaran to cays without a name, and an evening on a beach the tide owns and the resort does not. From there the journey opens toward Buenos Aires elegance, Patagonia's silence and Iguazú from the air.

This Caribbean and Latin America journey moves, in a single trip, from the gold light of a walled colonial city in Cartagena to the raw, wind-scoured drama of the southern Andes. It is planned for travellers who want both warmth and wildness, with seamless logistics to move effortlessly between them, from candlelit plazas to glaciers, hosted at every turn.

Buenos Aires and Iguazú belong to the continent's quieter chapters, which open once the Caribbean days are done. On this Caribbean and Latin America journey they sit alongside Patagonia's silence: Buenos Aires for its elegance, and Iguazú seen from the air, a contrast to the staffed villas, empty bays and nameless cays of the Caribbean opening.

Plan from around US$1,400 per person per night for the Latin American chapters and from around US$1,600 per person per night for Caribbean stays in the December to April high season. The final figure depends on the yacht days in the San Blas, the private lodge in Patagonia and the flights that link them, and your advisor prices it only once the route is set. Forest Travel's planning fee is US$250 per itinerary.