Insight Guides South America (Travel Guide eBook)
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Insight Guides South America (Travel Guide eBook)

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Insight Guides South America (Travel Guide eBook)

About this book

With a wealth of history and ancient ruins, diverse culture, arts and cuisine, some lively capital cities, the dramatic Andes, idyllic beaches, and enthrallingly diverse wildlife, South America is an amazingly rich continent to discover. Be inspired to visit with our new Insight Guide South America, a comprehensive full-colour guide to this captivating continent.

An updated new edition by our expert authors.
Stunning photography brings this delightful continent and its people to life.
Highlights of the continent's top attractions, from colourful capitals like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires to Easter Island, Iguaz Falls, Lake Titicaca and the Amazon Rainforest.
Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole continent from Caracas to the Galpagos Islands, the Andean Desert to Tierra del Fuego.
Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and the A-Z section will give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

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Information

Publisher
Insight Guides
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781786718488
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel
Travel Tips: Language
Making Contact
Whether you need to know what time the next bus leaves or how to book a hotel room, making yourself understood in the local language will really help you get the most out of your stay in South America. The good news is that you can get by in the whole continent with just two languages: Spanish and Portuguese (with the obvious exceptions of the Guyanas).
While people in many tourist establishments will speak English, once you are off the beaten track, hardly anyone will, and just making the effort to speak a few words will be appreciated, as well as making life easier. There are idiomatic differences from one country to the next, but you will soon pick these up as you go.
It would be impossible for us to give a complete language guide here, but the following are some useful words, phrases, and tips that will hopefully ease understanding.
Spanish
There is a colorful variety of local idioms throughout Spanish South America. In Argentina and Uruguay, the Spanish “ll,” as in “llanos,” comes out like something between a j and zh, whereas elsewhere it is more like “y,” as in Spain; while the familiar “tu” is replaced by the archaic sounding “vos.” In Chile, they are notorious for dropping the ends off their words, particularly those...

Table of contents

  1. South America’s Top 20 Attractions
  2. Editor’s Choice
  3. Introduction: The Undiscovered Continent
  4. Pre-Columbian Timeline
  5. The First Peoples
  6. Insight: Lost Empires and Discovered Treasure
  7. The European Conquest
  8. Independence
  9. Into the 21st Century
  10. A Land of Many Faces
  11. Insight: The Irresistible Lure of the Unknown
  12. Music and Dance
  13. Arts and Crafts
  14. Architecture
  15. Adventures in Sun, Snow, and Water
  16. Introduction: Places
  17. Introduction: The North Coast
  18. Colombia
  19. Venezuela
  20. Guyana
  21. Suriname
  22. French Guiana
  23. Introduction: The Andean Highlands
  24. Peru
  25. Insight: Lake Titicaca
  26. Bolivia
  27. Ecuador
  28. Insight: Birds of the Galápagos Islands
  29. Introduction: The Tropical Giant
  30. Brazil
  31. Insight: The Riches of the Amazon River
  32. Introduction: The Southern Cone
  33. Paraguay
  34. Chile
  35. Easter Island
  36. Uruguay
  37. Argentina
  38. The Falkland Islands
  39. Travel Tips: Overview
  40. Travel Tips: Argentina
  41. Travel Tips: Bolivia
  42. Travel Tips: Brazil
  43. Travel Tips: Chile
  44. Travel Tips: Colombia
  45. Travel Tips: Ecuador
  46. Travel Tips: Falklands
  47. Travel Tips: French Guiana
  48. Travel Tips: Guyana
  49. Travel Tips: Paraguay
  50. Travel Tips: Peru
  51. Travel Tips: Suriname
  52. Travel Tips: Urugyay
  53. Travel Tips: Venezuela
  54. Travel Tips: Language