DESTINATIONS — LATIN AMERICA
NEWS FROM LATIN AMERICA
Travel 2 has added a 14-day Costa Rica & Panama Discovery tour this year, with highlights including the Panama Canal and meeting the indigenous Embera Drua community in Chagres National Park. Prices start at £3,099 including flights.
travel2.com
Jericoacoara’s ‘lazy tree’
Latam Airlines Group has opened a VIP Lounge in Arturo Merino Benitez International airport in Santiago, Chile, with sleeping rooms, showers and business facilities. The lounge (pictured) is open 22 hours a day for Premium Business passengers on Lan, Tam and any Oneworld alliance airline, or those in Lan’s premium economy class.
tamairlines.com
Colombian carrier Avianca plans to increase its London-Bogota flights from four a week to seven, following a 28% surge in UK visitor numbers last year. Flights will depart daily on A330 planes from July.
avianca.com
l DOWN TIME
If Rio is the party girl and Lencois the rugged, outdoorsy older brother, then beach resort Jericoacoara is their shy but stunningly beautiful little sister. Pronounced Jeri-qua-quara (like the quack of a duck), but often shortened to Jeri, this resort is only accessible with a five-hour four-wheel drive across the sand dunes from Fortaleza. It has a laid-back surfer vibe, with buggies and quad bikes for hire, and shacks selling nothing but Havaiana flip-flops and brightly coloured beachwear. Its few sandy streets all lead towards the beach, where people party or enjoy world-class windsurfing and kitesurfing along its Atlantic coastline then, come 5pm, crowd onto Por do Sol dune to watch the sunset from one of Brazil’s only west-facing beaches. Jeri is nothing like as busy as
Brazil’s better-known beaches, but if the presence of a few fruit stalls
and cocktail carts doesn’t capture that get-away-from-it-all feel, the golden sands of nearby Lagoa do Paraiso should do the trick. Here, a hammock by the beach isn’t quite relaxing enough, so instead they string up hammocks in the water itself – and it really doesn’t get more chilled-out than that. On the way back from the lagoon, we spot Jeri’s iconic ‘lazy tree’, which doesn’t grow vertically but spreads horizontally along the dunes, proving that here you really can be as laid-back as you like. So it turns out Tiago’s advice
was right: just sit back, relax and let nature do the work. Book it: Intrepid Travel’s 14-day Northern Brazil trip starts in Rio de Janeiro, visiting Chapada Diamantina, Jericoacoara and Fortaleza. Prices start at £1,825 with twin-share accommodation, transport, some meals and activities, and a local guide, with departures starting June 20.
intrepidtravel.com TW
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travelweekly.co.uk — 21 May 2015
Los Cabos resort One&Only Palmilla has reopened following a refurbishment, with a new steakhouse, renovated rooms and suites, spa and fitness centre and lounge areas.
oneandonlyresorts.com
Journey Latin America has reintroduced the Train to the Clouds in northern Argentina as an add-on to tours of Salta and the northwest. The iconic train will operate every Saturday from April-December and Wednesdays from July. Prices start at £625 for a full-day train journey, private transfers, accommodation in Purmamarca and private excursion to Tilcara and Humahuaca.
journeylatinamerica.co.uk
Inkaterra has a new 12-room eco-lodge in Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas, between Ollantaytambo and Cusco. Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba (pictured) starts at £362 a night for a superior deluxe room, with another 24 casitas to open in summer and a spa early next year.
inkaterra.com
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