In 1990 my wife and I travelled to South America primarily to trek in Peru from Mollepata over the 4830 m high Incachiriasca pass to the Inca Trail and on to Machu Picchu.
Before commencing the trek, we visited the Paracas Reserve with its Candelabra and wildlife on the Ballestas islands, flew over the Nazca Lines and spent a few days at the Tambopata Wildlife Reserve in the Amazon rainforest. After the trek we took the highest passenger train line in the world to Lake Titicaca, visited the tortora reed floating islands on that lake and then proceeded by bus to La Paz in Bolivia where we inspected the pre-Inca Tiahuanaco ruins. We then flew to Buenos Aires and from there to Iguassu Falls where we spent a day admiring the falls from the Argentinian and Brazilian sides.
This excursion to South America delighted us with a wide range of scenery. The desert of the coastal strip contrasted with the humid jungle of the Amazon rainforest, the snow covered peaks of the Andes and with the magnificent Iguassu Falls. The numerous pre Inca and Inca ruins incorporating huge stones were a contrast to the huts built of tortora reed on floating islands made of the same reed on Lake Titicaca and to the Nazca Lines which are gigantic designs drawn on the Peruvian plain and visible only from the air.

Added January 2004