Looking for adventure on your travels, but also a bit of pampering at each day’s end? Hoping to get away from the guidebooks and gain a local’s insight into your destinations?
Most of all, are you wanting to travel at your own pace, with no lockstep herding by tour guides, and with the right amount of “you time” thrown in?
Relax. Lost World Adventures has got you covered.
Maybe you’re looking to stay in rustic eco-camps… or a historic boutique hotel. Maybe you’re drawn by the wildness of scaling a live volcano… or the sophistication of a gastronomic wine tour. Maybe you’re planning a crazy trip for the extended family… or a quiet honeymoon in a secluded paradise.
Whatever your interests, Lost World Adventures is here to turn imagination into reality.
Our local advisors are history experts who’ve trekked through Mayan ruins and Inca temples. They’re naturalists who’ve studied exotic flora and fauna in the heart of the Amazon. They’re foodies who’ve tracked down the best eateries in their city, from mom-and-pop home cooking to five-star fusion.
They’re here to listen as you plan your odyssey with us. And hey, the consultation’s free.
So whether you’re an outdoorsy explorer or a budding birdwatcher, an archaeology buff or just looking to soak up rays on the most beautiful beaches on the planet, you’ll find here the authentic, environmentally sustainable experience you’re looking for.
Why hesitate? The great world – your world – awaits.
Lost World Adventures provides custom luxury travel and tours to Central and South America – and beyond – for active and discerning travelers. All trips include expertly customized and personalized travel itineraries.
Featured Adventures
This journey opens with a rare opportunity: stepping straight into the highlands of Santa Cruz with a naturalist guide as your compass. Your first day balances comfort and exploration, pairing a locally sourced farm lunch with an immersive look at the island’s forests, craters, and lava-formed underworld.
Embark on an unforgettable journey through the heart of the Galápagos Islands, where nature’s wonders unfold at every turn. This immersive itinerary begins on Santa Cruz Island, offering a rare opportunity to witness Giant Tortoises roaming freely in the lush highlands. Upon arrival in Baltra, guests are welcomed by their guide and ferried across to explore the verdant interior of Santa Cruz, a landscape teeming with endemic flora and fauna.
This journey combines a spectacular descent through mountainous cloud forest from Andes to Amazon, with lodge visits in the cloud forest and along the wild Alto Madre de Dios river, culminating in a lowland rainforest experience amidst the comfortable yet wildlife-rich surroundings of the famous Manu Wildlife Center.
A true expedition, our Weddell Sea cruise sets out to explore the range of the Emperor Penguins near Snow Hill Island. We will visit the area via helicopter and see a variety of other birds and penguins including Adélies and Gentoos. Ortelius was built in Gdynia, Poland in 1989, was named Marina Svetaeva, and served as a special purpose vessel for the Russian Academy of Science.
Costa Rica rewards curiosity with color and life at every turn, and this journey with Lost World Adventures traces its living rhythms from cloud forest to coast. Your trip begins near San José, where the Finca Rosa Blanca Coffee Plantation sets the tone for the week—an immersion in sustainability, local flavor, and warm hospitality. From the slopes overlooking the Central Valley, the landscape rolls outward in deep green folds of coffee and canopy, inviting exploration.
Featured Hotels
The Alvear Art Hotel emerges as an innovative lodging option in Buenos Aires, backed up by the tradition of the Alvear Palace Hotel. Set among impressive trees, this new sample of the Alvear Experience opens the doors of its modern building in the heart of the financial, commercial, and cultural area of the city, offering excellent service, warm hospitality, the sophisticated comfort of its rooms, and the most advanced technology.
Peru Ecocamp offers the first private sustainable luxury glamping experience that will bring you in close contact with Andean culture. This ecological adventure will take you hiking along the Salkantay trail, across pristine mountainsides while sighting condors, passing Glacial Lakes like Humantay, picturesque villages, and ancient Inca citadels like Machu Picchu.
Hotel Shawandha Lodge, for 18 years, offers peaceful and relaxing eco-friendly accommodations in the heart of the South Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The hotel is characterized for its tranquility and the hospitality of its people, not to mention the exquisite and unique biodiversity (about 100 species of birds, over 200 types of flora and a gigantic Ceiba or Kapok tree).
An eco-luxury lodge in front of Madre de Dios River in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica has 35 wooden cabanas inspired in the Ese’Eja culture. 540 bird species have been inventoried in hotel grounds, deep in the rainforest.
In Monteverde, Costa Rica at the end of the year 2000, circumstances lead a Costa Rican man to make one of the most important decisions of his life. During the construction of his own house, he had the idea to convert it into a small luxury hotel in the Cloud Forest of Monteverde, and after a lot of careful planning and hard work, the result was a beautiful and cozy hotel in the mountains of Costa Rica.
Tierra Atacama Adventure Hotel & Spa is located on the edge of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The hotel faces the majestic Licancabur Volcano and there are panoramic views throughout. Tierra Atacama has an adventure spa philosophy: guests want to experience the outdoors actively and adventurously and then be welcomed back to the hotel with a variety of relaxing options.
The Manu Wildlife Center is located in the wild and remote Manu wilderness of Peru along the Manu de Dios in the Manu Biosphere Reserve. Nestled almost invisibly in the forest, it lies just across the river from the trail to Manu's prime wildlife viewing location, Cocha (Lake) Salvador. This is the largest and most beautiful of the 13 oxbow lakes of the Manu River.
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