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Travelling to and around Latin America
Connecting international flights bring Australia's cities to all major Latin American airports with two or three stop-overs. From Sydney, it takes about 17 hours to get to Chile, not counting stopover times in Auckland. A flight from Rio to San Paolo takes less than an hour. Flying from Santiago to Buenos Aires will take two hours.
Latin America lacks in international train connections, but within Peru, Bolivia, and particularly Argentina you can get train rides to tourist destinations like Cuzco or to neighbouring cities. Chile also has an inter-city train service, complete with sleeper berths and dining cars.
Latin America's subways
If you are looking for information on Latin America's major subway services, here are the four largest ones below:
Rio - the "marvelous city" has two subway lines, which connects to the rest of the city through bus routes. Line 1 serves the Rio downtown and tourist hotspots like Copacabana. Line 2 goes further inland and serves Rio's working-class neighbourhoods.
The main interchange is Estacio station. Signs in the metro system are printed in Portuguese and English. During the carnival season, line 1 operates twenty-four hours a day, which started with the 1997 season.
Santiago - Chile's capital has the most extensive subway system in South America, with five lines and 82 stations in its network, and 16 in construction.
All parts of Santiago are connected to the subway system, and among the stations you'll find artworks like massive murals, ceramic tilework, a concert space, modern and realistic art. Santiago's metro is open from 6am to 11pm all week, with reduced prices on Saturday from 2 pm and all day on Sunday.
Buenos Aires - locally known as the Subte, the first subway system in the Southern Hemisphere has six lines and seventy-four stations, operating since 1913. Lines A to D were the first to be built, and line A now features restored vintage train coaches. Free WiFi access is available throughout the line.
Murals adorn the walls of its stations, making the whole system an art gallery. Buenos Aires' Subte runs from 5am to 11pm all days of the week save for Sunday, when it opens at 8am.
Mexico City - the second most-extensive subway line in the Americas after the New York subway. Rubber tyres are a prominent part of the subway's appeal, reducing noise levels and adapting well to Mexico's shifting ground conditions. There are eleven colour-coded lines and 185 stations. Each station is represented by a related graphic symbol.
Ticket prices are the cheapest of any metro railway in the world. Mexico City's Metro opens from 5am to midnight on weekdays, Saturdays from 6am to 1am, and Sundays (plus holidays) from 7am until midnight.
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