South America • Fall 2025

A place where sky-snagging mountains meet mammoth glaciers and ancient deserts, biodiverse rainforests are dense and where diverse culinary traditions have fused to create some of the finest cuisine on the planet. Like a brilliant, brightly woven shawl, the cultural threads are complex, waiting to be unpicked. The many cultural influences color a year-long calendar of festivals, and simmer on stoves across the land – shaping this vast continent, forging a place that is rich and rainbow-bright as a carnival parade.

This South American tour features three of the continent's most exciting cities—Santiago, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro —along with one of the world's most spectacular attractions, Iguassu Falls. At a relaxed pace, you'll enjoy guided sightseeing in each city as well as free time in Santiago to people-watch at a lovely café with the snowcapped Andes Mountains as your backdrop, in Buenos Aires to experience an over-the-top tango and dinner show and in Rio to sip caipirinhas and visit the famous beaches. From the vibrant cities to the picturesque beauty, this Mayo Clinic trip to Chile, Argentina and Brazil will leave you with vacation memories you'll cherish for life. We hope you'll make plans to join us!

Contact Sara Mooney or Amanda Northrup at (800) 800-6508 or by email at mayo@carrouseltravel.com if you have questions or would like to register.