South America’s cultural heritage runs deep—from ancient civilizations and colonial artistry to contemporary design and Indigenous traditions that endure today. Whether it’s the weaving communities of the Andes, Amazonian cosmologies, or Lima’s modern art scene, these stories reveal the living identity of a continent.
In our Travel Journal, we uncover the people, places, and perspectives that bring South America’s cultures to life, offering insight into their artistry, symbolism, and timeless influence.
By Marcella Echavarría Marcella Echavarría curates Aracari Gallery, our online collection of art and design from across the Andes, and has long worked with the makers and brands keeping the region’s artistic traditions alive. Just back from Lima, she picks six artists, makers and places shaping contemporary Peruvian textile art right now, from Kristie Arias’s […]
Ten suites at the foot of the Tunupa volcano, Casa Gastón faces the largest salt flat on earth. Marisol Mosquera in conversation with Mariano Ugalde on the first hotel-museum in Bolivia, and the last work of the artist who imagined it. I met Gastón Ugalde nearly twenty years ago, in London, at an art fair […]
Bolivia has been building one of the most compelling dining scenes in South America. La Paz, its dramatic, canyon-carved capital perched above 3,600 meters, is where that energy is most concentrated. Over the past decade, a generation of chefs has turned inward, toward Bolivia’s astonishing biodiversity, its ancient cooking traditions, and its deep relationships with […]
The places we go, the people we find, and what it says about who we are. Our version of luxury travel to South America has long been shaped by culture, conservation, access, and storytelling. Values that continue to define Aracari’s world in 2026. This May, we joined The Long Run, a decision that had been […]
There has always been something undeniably magnetic about La Paz. Perched high in the Bolivian Andes at 3,650 meters above sea level, it is a city that operates by its own logic, where the air is thin, the light is extraordinary, and the streets pulse with an energy that is entirely its own. The strangeness […]
As top Peru specialists, we have spent almost three decades honing our craft. Today, our luxury travel takes in some of the country’s most tremendous wonders and hidden treasures, but place alone is not enough. Our longevity derives not from our ‘where’ and ‘what’ but rather our ‘who’ and ‘how’. Who are the faces of […]