What are the scenic or important spots to see or visit in Latin America?

Question

Can you please give me sites and if ever you know some ways how to protect these from being forgotten and how to take care of them please put them in your answer too. :D thanks! 10 points for best answer!

Also how to preserve them.

Answer 1

I could list places to see all day long.

In Mexico, Chichen Itza and Palenque are both beautiful ruins, Agua Azul and the Copper Canyon are natural wonders not to be missed.

In Guatamala, Lago de Atitlan is incredible, as is Tikal.

In Honduras, the Biosphere Preserve along the Carribean Coast is not to be missed, and of course Honduras also has the ruins of Copan.

Farther south you start running out of ruins (my personal favorite) but there is no lack of natural wonders.  Lago de Nicaragua and all of it's islands, as well as Costa Rica's Oso Penninsula are both beautiful.  Panama has Bocca del Torros, which I've never been to, but hear is stunning.  I know the area south of the city David in Panama is wonderful, as is the town in the mountains just north of there (I can't remember the name of it right now).

As to your question as to how to protect them from being forgotten, and how to preserve them:  I think that the best way to protect these places is to hide them away.  We, as tourists, do an incredible amount of damage to the places we visit.  Chichen Itza is in worse shape now than it was before they started excavating it.  But then, if we don't visit these places, what is the sense of preserving them?  The answer seems to be that as tourists we have to conciously choose to travel in such a way as to lower the impact of our stay as well as make sure the money we spend to go there actually gets left there.  Money talks, and Latin American governments will only protect these places if they see the profit in doing so.

Answer 2

machu picchu, iguazu falls,the amazon, the atacama desert. these places will blow your mind!

Answer 3

Mexican Caribean

Machu Pichu, Peru

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil

Buenos Aires and Bariloche, Argentina