An open free for all in straightforward concise communications. This site shall evolve and as it does so we can show what is best in South America with clear, sophisticated and developing communications. Many of us value nearly every word we read and others undervalue most of the words we hear. I'd like you to value the power of your keyboards and as honestly as you can, begin asking your neighbours about what they like most and what they want most from their part of South America.

Although it isn't the most diminutive or the most expansive continent it most certainly is a continent of superlatives. If you are able to share your personal experiences clearly and concisely, then you may be able to allow others to understand where you are coming from in addition to guiding and influencing for the better of everyone who'll be reading and writing on this site. Please, take your time as there most certainly is no rush to represent, in the best light possible this ethnically diverse, linguistically refined and often unbelievable continent of extremes.

While the Aztecs, the Mayans and the less famous ancient civilisations of the Americas may take the limelight the civilised peoples of South America often take the biscuit when it comes down to cordiality, politeness, tolerance and respect for everyone. Seldom have I known so many patient and openly expressive people and while standing in a bureaucratic line for something is often portrayed as a deathwish by more impatient or rude peoples most South Americans seem to enjoy the communality of waiting to cross a busy city street or meeting an officious, unhelpful government employee, or even the sports ticket sales booth and waiting to watch an internet projected fluidstream just seems less troublesome in the land of the really civilised Americans. Knowing that it was the ancient South Americans who first cultivated potatoes, maize, sweetcorn and a massive array of culinary delights have been and are still being created is also enticing enough. South America is a leading exporter of agricultural products, so you should never go hungry here.

If you're looking for large civilised city living, then there is no short supply of it in this continent where the majority are sophisticated urbanites. If you're greatest wish is to search for the longest mountain range, then it is also here, along with volcanoes and their associated natural hotwater spas, geothermal heating and the best of modern newly designed and built ski resorts. The Andes hold no limit of incredible discoveries. If you want to find yourself in the driest and highest of deserts, then the Atacama is ever so much more accessible than the Gobi and while the regular images of tropical rainforest are endearing, we've already recognised and defined over a hundred rainforest ecosystems exclusively in this continent. And it is in the Amazon where we have recorded over 40 indigenous languages, each attributed to the most humble of civilised and knowledgeable peoples, many of whom are so disconnected from this modern world that they have still refrained from revealing their languages and sustainable cultures to the outside world.

When you consider how much time and money many of us spend lazing around on crowded, polluted and often unbearable urban beaches, then again this land is a land of enormously expansive, attractive and easily navigable coastlines where you don't have to go far to be received by communities that have adapted from fishing for a living to include tourists as just another natural part of everyday living. And this is where and when you'll find it easiest to accept that South Americans are probably the friendliest and most keen to please of all the peoples around this globe. There aren't many things that are difficult or problematic here. This really is where almost everything is possible. After all, where else would we be able to admire the ancient city of Machu Picchu and try to conceive of how it was planned, designed, constructed and lived in by the ancestors of South American civilisation, the Incas. When the first outsider 'discovered' it in 1911, Hiram Bingham said and wrote so little of interest, that he almost never quoted. We do know that it is on a tiny peak of a mountain at over 2,400 metres altitude and that it was built from locally geologically sourced rock so that is would blend in with the surrounding towering mountain peaks. It is a hidden gem from which when you look around you will find every street, every perspective and every lookout has been made to give you a feeling of awe so overpowering that you may feel forever at one with nature again. Each gap or lowering in the walls around you show you another distant mountain peak. There can be no more enchanting South American castle than the Inca city which is appealing to everyone with even the slightest interest in history, geography, architecture, urban design, anthropology and most clearly of all, ecological science. Machu Picchu seems to be South America's constant reminder that we, humanity, are secondary to the planet and that each of us is little more than an animal in the greater scheme of things.

If you haven't already got a taste for what I'm looking for then just wait for more as I'll be guiding this site with less personal input and far greater admiration as we progress. Now, if you feel inspired just get on with it, show us what's best.