Hugh Thomson puts together a fascinating history of the Incas and the Spanish Conquest, starting from the initial expansion of the Inca empire as they conquered neighbouring tribes, to the arrival of the Spanish, the murder of Atahualpa and the final battles, forty years on, in and around Old Vilcabamba, the final hiding place deep in the jungle of the last Inca rulers.

I love travel photography and sometimes I see someone’s work that just amazes and humbles me. Here’s a selection of work from South American photographers that have recently caught my eye:

How to spend twenty million dollars making an ad in a remote village in Argentina. Guiness did just that. The video and location are spectacular.

I came across Adam Blenford’s blog StampCollector and I was immediately intrigued by his posts about Argentina…

Last Sunday we took the bus from La Plata to Buenos Aires to visit the neighbourhoods of La Boca and San Telmo. La Boca (Spanish for ‘The Mouth’) is a working class barrio (‘neighbourhood’) on the mouth of the Río Riachuelo known for it’s colourful wooden houses, it’s football team (Boca Juniors) and for being [...]

I was searching for photos of Argentina on Photoshelter and I came across the work of Marco Vernaschi. His work interested me because he had shot a story about the Quechua that live in northwest Argentina and mine salt from the Salinas Grandes (a large salt pan in the Andes).

In June this year I visited [...]