Latin America

Entirely. The Patagonia journey, the Wine Routes, Adventure Luxury and Family Exploration are starting points, not packages, and Latin America rewards combining them: a tango lesson in a Buenos Aires salon, Patagonia from a private estancia, Iguazú from the air and then the water. Your advisor rebuilds the route around your party, with November–April the Patagonian summer.

Yes — Central, repeatedly named among the world's best restaurants, is one of the Lima tables we open, woven into a wider private journey through Peru.

Yes, if you hold a US passport. Since 10 April 2025, US passport holders have needed a Brazilian e-visa, which costs about US$80.90, is applied for online and takes five business days. A day trip to the Brazilian side of Iguazú counts as entry to Brazil like any other. Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ecuador ask US passports for nothing but the passport. If your route crosses into Brazil, start the application at least two weeks out, before anything else is confirmed.

Machu Picchu tickets are a public quota, and no one holds private access. Entry is capped at 5,600 visitors a day in high season and 4,500 on other days. Tickets are sold by named circuit across ten sub-circuits, and about 1,000 a day are held back for in-person sale in Cusco. An advisor can change the hour, the guide and the order of the days. That means buying the first entry slot, placing a serious guide in it and building the week around that fixed time.

Cusco sits above 3,300 m, about 11,000 ft, so a Peru itinerary has to acclimatise deliberately. The usual way is to begin in the Sacred Valley. Altitude is one of the two honest warnings Forest Travel gives about Latin America. The other is the internal distances, which can quietly turn an over-packed route into days spent in transit.

Not as stated. Patagonia, the Amazon and Machu Picchu in ten days is the request Forest Travel most often declines, because that version spends five of the ten days in airports. Almost every regional flight routes through a capital, and Patagonian lodges sit a further two to five hours by road from their airport. Cusco's altitude also demands deliberate acclimatisation. The better approach is choosing pairs of regions that actually work together.

At Iguazú, the journey begins with a helicopter flight over the falls, then continues by private launch to the very edge of the Devil's Throat. You see their scale from above first and feel their thunder from the water second. Timing matters: Iguazú is hottest, most humid and busiest in December, January and February, the same months Patagonia's trekking season is most settled.

The best time to travel to Latin America depends on which region leads the trip, because the southern hemisphere's calendar does not run in one direction. Patagonia's trekking season is November to March, most settled in December, January and February. Those are the hottest, most humid and busiest months at Iguazú. The Peruvian Amazon has high water from December to May and low water from June to November. Galápagos runs all year. One trip cannot have every region at its best.

Latin America suits travelers with time to focus on a few regions. Forest Travel's starting points include an 8-day Patagonia journey, 8-day Wine Routes through Mendoza and Buenos Aires, 10-day Adventure Luxury, and a 9-day multi-generational Family Exploration of lakes, lodges and gentle treks. A trip usually fits three legs over twelve to sixteen nights. It is not ideal for anyone with ten days who wants Patagonia, the Amazon and Machu Picchu together, because five of those days would go to airports.

Yes. Latin America's regions combine best as three legs over twelve to sixteen nights: a city at each end and two regions in the middle. Examples are Buenos Aires and Santiago bracketing Patagonia, or Buenos Aires with Iguazú to the north and Bariloche to the south. Internal distances are the constraint. Almost every regional flight routes through a capital, and Patagonian lodges sit two to five hours by road from their airport. A four-region itinerary in two weeks becomes four travel days.

In Latin America, where you stay follows the shape of the route. In Patagonia, a private estancia can serve as your base: a working ranch with gauchos, mountain rides and a chef cooking lamb the old way over open flame. Patagonian lodges sit a further two to five hours by road from their airport, so placement affects how many days go to travel. The Family Exploration journey moves between lakes and lodges, with gentle treks scaled to every generation.

In Latin America, Forest Travel changes the hour, the guide and the order of the days, not the public quotas. Nobody holds private access to Machu Picchu or the Torres del Paine trails. The advisor buys the first entry slot, places a serious guide in it and builds the week around that fixed time. Machu Picchu, Torres del Paine and Galápagos must all be arranged before the flights. Private moments include a historic Buenos Aires milonga opened privately and a private launch to Iguazú's Devil's Throat.