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The first ever recorded Olympic Games were played in 776 BC in ancient Greece, and the modern Games began in 1896 with 14 countries and 241 naked men (of course, no women) participating in 43 events.Held in Athens, Greece to honor the Olympiad legacy of the region, the modern Olympics...
Read MoreStretching from the Argentinian and Uruguayan borders in the south to the massive Amazon Basin region in the north, Brazil is the world’s fifth biggest country and the largest nation in South America in both size and population.Although no longer the country’s capital, the bustling coastal metropolis of Rio de Janeiro...
Read MoreAs Brazil relaxes its Visa requirement around the upcoming 2016 Rio Games, there’s never been a better time for U.S. and Canadian citizens to visit the world’s fifth largest country, occupying nearly half the South American continent. Whether you’re planning to attend the Games or simply want to avail yourself...
Read MoreOutside of Carnival, there are no bigger celebrations in all of Latin America than those that take place to ring in the New Year. Traditions are wild, colorful and, in many cases, hold great significance for revelers, so a trip to Central or South America for New Year’s Eve brings not only a raucous good time but also a peek into other cultures.
Read MoreWhether you call it soccer or football, the sport affectionately referred to as “the beautiful game” is the most popular sport in the world. Two of its biggest stars rank in the top 10 highest paid sportsmen. Five out of 10 of the world’s highest attended sports leagues are soccer leagues. And, an estimated 600 million people watched the World Cup final in 2014.
Read MoreDia de los Muertos Celebrations in Latin America - As we, here in the U.S., gear up for Halloween by donning our spookiest costumes, most bone-chilling makeup and our biggest candy collection buckets to head out and solicit treats from neighbors or party the night away with friends...
Read MoreAstronomical tourism didn’t begin with the rise of sustainable journeys in the 1970s. In fact, stargazers have been traveling to view dark skies for centuries. Today, however, as the number of humans living in light polluted cities increases and the cost of powerful home telescopes declines, astronomical tourism has become its own freestanding travel segment
Read MoreYou may think it’s too soon to start planning for Latin America’s 2016 Carnival season, but accommodations fill up quickly (sometimes more than a year in advance) around what’s widely considered to be the biggest party of the year across Central and South America. So much so, tourists often pay inordinate amounts of money to stay in a local home on little more than a cot surrounded by other tourists who were tardy to the party.
Read MoreWhen we first launched VIP Tour Group 12 years ago, the availability of luxury properties across Latin America was somewhat limited to major tourist destinations and large cities with thriving business communities.Today, as we prepare to launch our new Central America offerings (coming later this summer), the VIP luxury travel segment is booming across both Central and South America offering unique experiences in breathtaking destinations with distinctive hotels...
Read MoreThey say music is the universal language, and the surge of music festivals across the globe seems to confirm the age-old adage. More than ever before, people are traveling away from home to enjoy destination weekends with friends that hinge on these popular musical extravaganzas sometimes to locations they might never have considered otherwise. Today, according to industry trade mag Pollster...
Read MoreIt wasn’t that long ago the World Cup swept through the world’s 5th largest country by population. Tourism in Brazil, the country that makes up 47 percent of the South American continent, already had been growing for some time due to its amazing beaches (including the best beach in the world, according to TripAdvisor), high biodiversity (the country boasts more than 4 million plant and animal species)
Read MoreThis 2016 Rio Summer Games customized land package includes 6 nights accommodations at the Caesar Park Hotel VIP Luxury Resort, or the affordable Royal Rio Palace Hotel or the 3-4 star Mirasol Copacabana. VIP Tours has designed some of the best trip experiences to Brazil and South America for the past 13 years, and now we enter into the greatest sporting event...
Read MoreFor women the world over, the South America honeymoon was immortalized in the Twilight trilogy’s third installment, Breaking Dawn. The good news is you don’t have to be a creepy, living dead guy who married someone 100 years younger than himself in order to give the woman you love a wonderful honeymoon.
Read MoreThe United States will play Ghana, Portugal and Germany. The first-round group of death which includes The United States, Ghana, Portugal and Germany at next year's World Cup that will take the Americans on a lengthy 9,000-mile trip around Brazil. Making their seventh straight appearance at soccer's showcase, the Americans were drawn Friday into Group G and will open on June 16 in Natal against Ghana, which eliminated the Americans
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