Simon Reeve's South America

Simon Reeve travels through the remote and little-visited north east of South America, from Venezuela to French Guiana.

Simon travels through Brazil, from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the coast and the glamorous-but-troubled city of Rio de Janeiro.

Simon travels from the ancient city of Machu Picchu in Peru to La Paz in Bolivia, the highest capital city on Earth, visiting cocaine farms and gold mines along the way.

Simon travels through three of the world's most extreme environments: the salt flats of Bolivia, the Brazilian Pantanal and Paraguay's Chaco Forest. In Bolivia, Simon meets a family who makes a living carving salt from the Uyuni salt flats.

Simon travels from Chile's Atacama Desert right down to Tierra Del Fuego, the most southerly inhabited place on Earth. The Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet, has as little as 1mm of rain per year.