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All you need to know before you choose South America Vacation Packages with information on South America tours and cruises for families, and reviews of vacations in Brazil, Argentina, Rio de Janeiro, Peru and Galapagos Islands adventure cruises.

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Galapagos, Girl and Sea Lion, photo c. Sven-Olof Lindblad

Dream Big - Win An Adventure Cruise To The Galapagos Islands

Families dream big about how to spend their precious vacation time; that's why we're giving away a family expedition to the legendary Galapagos Islands of South America.  TakingtheKids.com, TravelingMom.com and Family Travel Forum have teamed up to make your Big Dream vacation come...

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Vogel Family Biking

My Family Biked From Alaska To Argentina

17,300 miles is the distance from Los Angeles, California to New York, New York -- seven times. It is about 5,000 miles less than the entire circumference of the Earth. It is a number I had only seen on the odometer in my car.   But for Nancy Sathre-Vogel, her husband, and twin 10-year-old...

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Paraguay, Patients waiting for surgery

The Greatest Gift

They came from all over by the thousands.  They traveled for miles.  Some of them even came from neighboring countries. They walked, rode motorcycles, piled into the back of pickup trucks, and crammed themselves into military transport vehicles.  Although each individual was unique,...

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Build On Cleanup Project

The Nicaragua Experience

I enjoy helping students, giving back to my community and helping others have a better education. For the past two years I have involved myself in community service activities and giving back to the community. I help to clean parks and participate in soup kitchens. This has helped me to form strong...

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Chill Out in Chile And Argentina

Chill Out in Chile And Argentina

In the southern hemisphere, find snowsports in "summer" and specials for kids at Portillo, Valle Nevado and Bariloche. No matter how avid the skiers in your family, you might not plan on hitting the slopes in August if you live in the Northern Hemisphere. Yet despite the summer heat...

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Extraordinary Hotels For Adventures Of The Night

Extraordinary Hotels For Adventures Of The Night

We picked some of our favorite, most unusual places to sleep in Brazil, Japan and Turkey and want to show you how to enjoy them as a family. Sometimes in our travels we encounter a perfect place to sleep, one so in sync with its cultural and physical environment that our journey is transformed. The...

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with the children of Cristo Rey.

The Dew of Compassion

English Romantic poet, Lord Byron, once said, “The dew of compassion is a tear.” After visiting a trash dump in Nicaragua, where over 4,000 families struggle to survive among waste and filth, I understood what it truly meant to be compassionate; I understood what it meant take a...

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Pins on a Map: A Family's Yearlong Journey Around the World

Pick up this charming memoir by David Boesch and join his family of five on their enlightening one-year, 6-continent, 17-country journey.   The kids (ages 7, 10 and 13) helped select the itinerary by placing "pins on a map" to indicate where they want to go. In addition to their...

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Traveling to my mother’s native land: Nicaragua

Traveling to my mother’s native land was an unforgettable experience in my ways.   I was not sure what to expect but my mother had prepared us by letting us know that it was not a place like the United States of America. I was eleven years old and I traveled with my younger sister,...

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