Quirky Guide

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.

Ever fancied fishing for bloodthirsty piranas? Well you can in South America, particularly in the Pantanal region of south-west Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.

A trip to jail isn’t most people’s idea of a fun day out, but then San Pedro - found in La Paz - is no typical prison.

Brits bet on horses, Americans bet on dogs and Colombians bet on… wait… guinea pigs?

If you love crazy tatty décor pieced together from recycled junk by a wildly artistic imagination, this is a great restaurant to visit.

When picking materials for this hotel on the Salar de Uyuni - a salt flat the size of Jamaica - it was inevitably time for sodium chloride to have its architectural moment.