Is usually the most nearly regions we have, but at the same time is a completely and interesting different part of the world, south America itself has several countries and everyone has its own history, its own traditions and represent a completely different environment to choose, perhaps of this this zone of the planet has a lot of different natural places to explore and we can say that every nation has its own natural treasure to show.
On the same way we can find also a very high diversity of historic and archeological patrimony, that of course it combined with the first factors I mentioned makes this part of the American continent an obligatory destiny to visit.
South America counts with a huge major of Spanish speakers, we can also say that is precisely the Hispanic culture the one that influence the major part of the continent, in the other hand there are other two well differenced languages on the region the second one is Portuguese, represented by brazil and the next one is Papiamento a language form that combine the English, Spanish and Netherlands language.
And is on this specific topic that comes a great part of the tips to travel on south America, the idiom is a factor that you need to consider all the time, and even if you know a little bit of Spanish it will be not enough to understand people there, especially because a lot of them speaks it very fast.
On the same way you can’t plan a travel without consider the factor of transportation, and about it is also necessary to remember that security goes first, on the major part of the south American nations there are taxi services, the advice here is only to pick up the ones who are official and not go around and pick one without a company name at the front or at the sides of the vehicle.