Quirky Guide

Brazil is better known for carnivals and footballers than wine, but you might be surprised.

Could this be the world’s most beautiful river?

As far as accidentally quirky attractions go, Peru’s capital Lima boasts the most endearing that we’ve ever seen.

Weave it, eat it, sail it, live on it – the inhabitants of highland Peru certainly know what to do with the mighty reed.

The hardest thing about these lovable armoured animals? Catching them. Yet this is a popular hobby in the Pantanal wetlands.

Train delays getting you down? The villagers of San Cipriano have the answer: glue a trolley to a motorbike, plonk it on the tracks and call it a train.

Dawn breaks over a football field. Stakes are driven into the ground. Twenty burly men wait anxiously in a ring…. then a row of caged birds begins to sing.

Does club kicking-out time on a Saturday night send you scuttling for the nearest taxi? Then don´t mess with the Bolivians.

It may sound like a low budget horror movie, but the truth about the Day of the Gnocchi in Uruguay is far more tantalising.

Think of a church. Now think of a church where powerful hallucinogens and explosive vomiting are as normal as hymns and prayers.