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  • Wish Upon a StarWish Upon a Star — Inca Stargazing in Peru

    Michelle Jana Chan writes… Inca stargazing in Peru was unlike anything in the Western tradition. Rather than connecting bright stars into constellations, the Incas found meaning in the dark patches of the night sky — a snake’s head below the Southern Cross, a mother llama with her baby traced through the Milky Way. Even more

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  • Interview with Samba Dancer Laiza Bastos Vieira in Rio de Janeiro

    Laiza Bastos Vieira is a professional samba dancer in Rio de Janeiro and choreographer for Mocidade Samba School’s comissão de frente. She shares what life is like performing at the iconic Sambódromo parade. How did you get into samba? Samba often runs in families. It did in mine. A great uncle of mine was one

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  • The Rio de Janeiro Food Scene — A Culinary Revival

    The Rio de Janeiro food scene is having its moment. Long overshadowed by São Paulo’s immigrant-fuelled gastronomic diversity, Rio rested on its laurels as a city of stodgy bar snacks at hole-in-the-wall joints known as pé sujos — literally “dirty feet.” That’s changing fast. Recently, however, Brazil’s most beautiful city has been getting easier on

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  • How to Learn Samba Like a Malandro in Rio de Janeiro

    Want to learn samba in Rio de Janeiro the authentic way? In a smart Ipanema dance studio, instructor Carla Campos demands chest up, hips firm, and no wriggling — because real samba is about dancing like a malandro, not a chicken. Ah, the malandro — the archetypal bad boy, the con artist, the ladies’ man, the hero

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Real Stories
from Our Clients

A lucky find

We are now back home and sitting here thinking that we were so lucky to find Dehouche and start organising that first trip. Each one has been so incredible, really, one after the other, and every time we come back we are like – Man! We have to get started on the next one!

Wildlife in Brazil

What a wonderful trip you and your team organised for us. It well exceeded our expectations and everything worked like clockwork as usual on a Dehouche trip. Again thanks for an amazing trip definitely one of our best.

Sensory pleasures

We have returned from our amazing trip yesterday. Thank you for organizing such a memorable vacation! Everything was superb without any hiccups. We loved every place we visited and of course the beautiful Jose Ignacio was the highlight! The tour guides in Bueno Aires and Montevideo were excellent. The best empanadas were at Elena’s restaurant […]

A 21st to remember

Thank you for organising the most wonderful holiday for us. Everywhere we stayed was absolutely lovely, all transfers seamless, every guide both knowledgeable and fun to be with. Both Carlos in Rio and Jorge in Iguazu went out of their way to accommodate our children so we were able to have a very special time […]

An old friend

I want to thank you for the trip organization, the selection of places and accommodation, the perfect allocation and scheduling. It’s difficult to say what we enjoy the most: every single place has been a real discovery. All were unique and amazing. On top, in Pantanal and Rio we had two very great, passionate, expert […]

Secret of the Incas

In short, the trip was perfect.  The hotel rooms were amazing, Machu Picchu was everything I had hoped for, the picnic and Shaman experiences were phenomenal and Gabby, our guide, was awesome.  I can’t imagine anyone wouldn’t be absolutely thrilled with the itinerary you planned for us. I really can’t think of a single thing […]