South America doesn’t lack in well… anything at all. Beaches, parties, wineries, mountains, cuisine, language, arts and diversity are just a few things that this continent does well. While we’re all familiar with the Carnival culture of Rio de Janeiro and the tango trance of Buenos Aires, there are vibrant up and comers that deserve more attention this year.
We’ve looked at the popularity rise in destinations from this year to last, and boiled it down to which hot spots are getting hotter, and which ones are fading fast. Use it as a guide to see which places to travel to next before they become yesterday’s news.
Our top five include:
Cuiaba, Brazil
Armenia, Colombia
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Iguassu Falls, Brazil
Montevideo, Uruguay
The bottom five are:
Cartagena, Colombia
Caracas, Venezuela
Aracaju, Brazil
Georgetown, Guyana
Boa Vista, Brazil
See our entire 2010 South America’s Rising Stars Report to read the whole list of 50.
