
South America Self-Guided Tours and Trips
Discover the finest self-guided and independent tours in South America. We currently offer 120 South America tours and trips with flexible durations from 1 to 58 days. While self-guided exploration can be rewarding, it's important to consider the potential challenges of traveling without a guide. If you prefer more structure, explore our guided tours to South America or small group tours to South America for a balanced experience.
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Top-rated self-guided multiday South America tours for independent travelers — well-structured itineraries backed by local support and smart logistics.
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Reviews of our South America Self-Guided Tours
Self-guided travelers rate their independent journeys through South America.
Deeply impressed by Peru, loved the guidance by a local (all the guides spoke Quechua and gave us an introduction into their culture). Perfect mix of free time and program, great food, great people...really lovely. :-)
I spent 13 days in Costa Rica and did a self-drive everywhere from Liberia to San Jose while hitting places such as Rincon, Arenal, Monteverde, Samara Beach, and Dominical to name a few and I was able to do pretty much everything I wanted to do in Costa Rica thanks to Alex's brilliant trip planning! On top of that, the hotels that were booked for me were all top notch and there were plenty of opportunities to have lunch and dinner no matter where I stayed. If you plan to stay in Costa Rica anytime soon, I highly recommend having Alex to plan your trip with you!
We had a great couple of weeks in Costa Rica, all planned through the travel team. Yuliana did a great job planning the trip for us, input on what to see and things we were interested in doing. We traveled from Liberia to Monteverde by private transportation and a knowledgeable guide that explained points of interest during the 3-hour drive. Highlights were the zip lines, planned tours and hikes to beautiful waterfalls. Tour guides were friendly and knowledgeable which made the trip that must more enjoyable. We learned a lot about the country, regions, culture, parks, and animals. All in all, it was a great trip, saw and did lots of things and had the right amount of downtime. Would do it again.
Excellent adventure; it is exactly as described; if you are looking for glamping this is not for you; accurate description of itinerary although there always seems to be a last minute change - this time we had to take a two-hour bus ride to a camp on the other side of the park and then take it all the way back the next day as one of the camps was not available - we were not notified about this in advance but on Day 1 despite G Adventures being aware of this
Iguazzu Falls are spectucular and not to be missed when visiting South America. This was an enjoyable spectacular trip of a lifetime - a few too many border crossings that should be reduced to level up the expereince.
Our Patagonian guides Fabian, Manuel and Matthias were wonderful! They took care of us extremely well. I thoroughly recommend the O-trek in the Torres del Paine National park, Patagonia. Strenuous, but we have a great sense of achievement having completed it with the help of our fantastic guides and porters!
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