Surrounded by rainforest on the Brazilian coast, Paraty has a sleepy appearance that hides a buzzing social scene. Lucia van der Post rents a house and joins in
With lavish new hotels, smart mountain restaurants and liveried ski valets, the neighbouring resorts of Deer Valley, Park City and the Canyons offer an altogether more refined ski trip, says Jane Mulkerrins
Colin Barraclough joins an expedition bound for Aysén, a pristine region of Chile that has had a reprieve from the threat of a vast hydroelectric project
‘Pato’, the country’s little-known national sport which got its name because it used to be played using a live duck as a ball, is played with a football that is put inside a six-handled leather harness
With a main street that consists of virtually nothing but eateries, the ramshackle little town of Grand Case is proving to be the gourmet capital of the Caribbean