Season 1

Simon Reeve travels through the remote and little-visited north east of South America, from Venezuela to French Guiana.

Simon travels through Brazil, from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the coast and the glamorous-but-troubled city of Rio de Janeiro.

Simon travels from the ancient city of Machu Pichu in Peru to La Paz in Bolivia, the highest capital city on Earth, visiting cocaine farms and gold mines along the way.

Simon travels from the vast white salt flats of Bolivia, through the world’s greatest wetlands of Brazil’s Pantanal, and on to the forested heart of Paraguay.

Simon travels from Chile’s Atacama Desert and follows the Andes mountains to Patagonia before ending up in the most southerly inhabited region on earth, Tierra Del Fuego.