The citadel of Chan Chan in the Peruvian region of La Libertad is recognized as one of the most impressive sites in the New World, observed La República of Lima. 

So noted Alberto José Patino Mojica in El Tiempo of Bogotá.  Although it sounds like a cliché, Pijao, a town of 6,600 inhabitants located in the department of Quindio in the Central Cordillera, “seems frozen in time.” 

According to Dom Phillips in Folha de São Paulo “the continent-sized country also has a vast interior, with forests, mountain ranges (serras) and plateaux (chapadas) of at times staggering beauty.

El Comercio of Quito boasted that Ecuador is among the least expensive tourist destinations in the world.  According to china.org.cn, it is among the 10 cheapest.  In first place is India, where “ the daily expenditure of the country is the lowest of world.” 

So observed Natalia Ramos in PáginaSIETE of La Paz.  Nora Bayerman, one of the venders in the central tourist area of ​​La Paz, says that business is not what it was.

In Prensa Libre of Guatemala City Genner Guzmán told of the upcoming “día del descuentazo,” or “discount day,” in which more than three thousand merchants will gather to offer shoppers significant markdowns on

El Espectador of Bogotá reports that the Colombian government will turn to Spain for a tourism makeover for Bogotá. 

El Nuevo Diario of Managua says “the gamble was a success.”  Puerto Allende has become one of the largest amusement parks in Nicaragua, with numerous restaurants, receiving 94,000 visitors a month. 

Maneiro Iñigo Labayen wrote of “a mountain of sand” in El Comercio of Lima. Cerro Blanco, the highest dune in South America, rises to an imposing height of 2080 meters of fine sand above the other dunes that form the coastal desert. 

Mercopress of Montevideo reported that Brazilian tourism officials say that the country has stepped up efforts to lure more foreign tourists as Brazil gears up to host the 2014 World Cup.