South America Honeymoon (Peru, Argentina, Brazil) – August 2024

Hi everyone, thanks for visiting.

Firstly, as the title suggests, this mammoth trip was for our Honeymoon after getting married in March. The trip would not have been possible if not for generous gift contributions from guests, so thank you.

As this link will appear in our (very late) thank you cards, for many of you it might be your first time visiting. Brace yourself for some bad grammar, perhaps a little potty language, but some incredibly fun facts and enough nice photos to separate my spiel.

I (i.e. Chris) have been very fortunate to have travelled quite a bit, with this trip adding countries 43, 44 and 45 to the ongoing total. Many of my other trips since around 2018 can be found elsewhere on my blog by using the menu above, including our mini-moon to Barcelona and Andorra (link here).

As our honeymoon covered 18 days including travel, I’ve given you a break and split the trip into three parts, one for each country. Hope you enjoy and any feedback would be appreciated!

NOTE that I did initially attempt to write this during the trip. I failed. I’m writing this sentence in the hotel reception on an ancient PC on day 16!! As day 16 is in Brazil i.e. Portuguese language I cannot even find the bloody apostrophe on the keyboard! So that did not go to plan. However, I will likely upload separate posts in full, so if there is not link below, it has not been written yet.

Introduction.

Not really sure what to put here. I usually say a bit about the country I visit especially if they’re a bit off the beaten track. For this post though, they belong in their respective pages.

For the trip we used a company called Exoticca and paid our deposit in August 2023. At that time I never heard of Exoticca, so parting with a 60% deposit equating to thousands of pounds was a leap of faith! Since then I believe they have increased their presence a lot in the UK. The total price we paid for the trip was half of what local travel agents could offer.

Exoticca themselves are not much more than a middle man. Sorting flights (nine in our case!) and handing us over to local tour operators in the given country. However, they pieced together the itinerary brilliantly, the hotels were perfectly adequate and they or the local operator were always on hand to assist.

We expected to be part of a group but in reality we were mostly left to our own devices. We shared a few excursions with other groups who had different holidays (for example one group done Peru and Ecuador so we were grouped with them in the Peru leg).

I usually thrive off planning my own travel plans, but in this case I’ll happily say it would have been impossible to achieve such a fulfilling holiday of a lifetime.

There is a lift of our hotels below with the relevant Booking.com link too for your perusal (PERU-sal, lolz).

That’ll do for the introduction at the moment. Click the links or images below to see our trip in detail.

Days 1 – 7: Peru

NOW FINISHED – CLICK HERE