Finding a marketplace for the Amazon rainforest. Eco-tourism as a conservation tool.
Tourism
Haute cuisine in – wait for it – Bolivia!
Dan Collyns takes us to the trendiest new restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, the brainchild of top Danish chef and Noma founder, Claus Meyer. Could it be the vanguard of a gastronomic revolution in the land-locked country.
Peru’s Machu Picchu re-opens to tourists
Peru’s most famous archaeological site, Machu Picchu, has formally reopened after heavy rains and landslides cut rail access to the site, forcing it to close for two months.
Hundreds of tourists, including US actress Susan Sarandon, took the train to the 15th Century Inca ruin – the most-visited site in Latin America.
Peru had lost some $200m (£131m) in revenue because of the closure.
Machu Picchu tourist airlift ends with 1,300 flown out
Police in Peru say they have airlifted the last of the tourists stranded near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu after floods destroyed road and rail links.
Nearly 1,300 travellers were flown out by helicopters on Friday, a local policeman told the Associated Press.
A total of nearly 4,000 tourists and local residents have now left the area following last Sunday’s heavy flooding.