Make 2025 a year to remember with a luxury South America tour. From world-class train rides to jaguar safaris and yacht cruises in the Galapagos, this continent offers some of the most exciting, adventurous, and fascinating luxury experiences you could ask for in the upcoming year. In this article, we have rounded up the top nine luxury South America tours for 2025, giving you ample inspiration to plan your next big trip. Where will your sense of adventure take you? The depths of the Peruvian Amazon?  The heights of Torres del Paine? Or perhaps the far reaches of Antarctica? Read on to find out which ones will make it to your New Year’s bucket list. 

Chile’s Top Luxury South America Tours for 2025

Chilean Wine Region Road Trip

As an increasingly popular destination for new-world wine, where better to indulge in the exclusive art of viticulture than the Chilean Wine Region? Combining breathtaking Andes mountain scenery with world-class wine making, a road trip across the wine regions is the most impressive way to taste Chilean culture. 

Hire a luxury car in Santiago and spend a week or two glacially winery-hopping around growing and established Chilean wine regions including the Maipo Valley. Elqui Valley, and Colcahgua. Visiting everything from the traditional to the state-of-the-art, you’ll get to sample delectable wines on exclusive luxury wine tours, tastings, cooking classes, and at private dinners. When you’re not sipping on fine wine, take the opportunity to explore the breathtaking Chilean landscapes on foot, horseback, or by car. 

Easter Island Ancient Explorer

Uncover the mysterious ancient history, unique culture, and beautiful landscapes of Easter Island, a small and remote Chilean island located over 2000 miles from the Chilean Coast in the South Pacific. Allow the island to baffle you as it has baffled historians for centuries with its mesmerizing Moai megaliths, a series of over 800 stone statues of humans with oversized heads lined up in groups across the island.

As you explore the island in search of the Moai, stop to see its breathtaking natural highlights including the Rano Kau volcanic crater, the Te Pahu lava flow caves, and Aneka Beach. Meanwhile, the Rapa Nui, Easter Island’s native people introduce you to their unique native culture through dance, song, and stories.

Patagonia’s Top Luxury South America Tours for 2025

El Chalten Patagonia Photography Tour

Make your 2025 trip to South America one to remember with a Patagonia photography tour of El Chalten, one of the world’s most photogenic locations, accompanied by a professional photographer. Whether you’re a novice or an experienced amateur photographer, you can hone in your camera skills and create incredible images you won’t believe you caught yourself with the help of your passionate guide. 

To get these incredible images, you and your photographer guide will hike to top locations around El Chalten including Laguna Los Tres and Mirador Cerro Torre. Along the way, pick their brain for photography tips and tricks and you’ll soon learn more about the topic you could have hoped to in just a day or two. By the end of your Patagonia photography tour, not only will you have a new skill set but you’ll have professional-looking self-captured photographs you’re proud to hang in your home. 

Private Torres Del Paine Tour

Instead of enduring multi-day hikes to see Torres del Paines world-famous peaks, pine forests, and glaciers, opt for a private package tour that prioritizes the luxury of ease and comfort. Whatever your interests are in Torres del Paine, indulge in them on an adventure that allows you to explore the area at your own pace.

See the world-famous triple peak of Torres del Paine on a simple day trip featuring a scenic drive and short hike. Admire the chizelled natural beauty of the Grey Glacier on an epic ice hike. And go horseriding, mountain biking, or fossil huntring around the Patagonian steppes. Accompanied by an expert guide with specialist knowledge on local geography, your private Torres del Paine tours will be exceptionally rewarding. 

Antarctica Cruise

Set sail from Ushuaia at the southern tip of Argetnina on an adventurous luxury cruise to the Last Continent. While your cruise crosses Drake’s Passage from South America to reach the snow-covered continent, enjoy indulging in the ship’s luxury amenities like the fine dining restaurant, spa, and theatre where you can watch insightful talks about Antarctica from your onboard scientist guides. 

After navigating a sea of ice, you’ll reach Antarctica’s landing points where you can explore the world’s most remote and inhospitable place with your guide’s knowledge and guidance at hand. Whilst there, climb Antartctic peaks, visit a military base, spot whales, penguins, and seals, and kayak around icebergs on the ice-cold water. The eeriness mixed with its magnificence makes an Antarctica cruise a true once-in-a-lifetime trip.

Peru’s Top Luxury South America Tours for 2025

Amazon Cruise

Spend five fabulous days cruising along the Amazon River in a luxury riverboat to discover the weird, wonderful, and wild world existing in the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem. Board your luxury riverboat in Iquitos, the beating heart of the Peruvian Amazon, and allow it to take you on a path of adventure with excursions such as wildlife-spotting jungle hikes, canoeing through knotted mangrove forests, and meeting local tribes. 

Meanwhile, back on board, enjoy the juxtaposition of five-star accommodation featuring world-class cuisine, lavish facilities like a spa and billiard room, and upscale interiors. Ensuring your cruise is both inspiring and informative, you’re accompanied by an expert naturalist guide loaded with specialist Amazon knowledge from start to finish. 

Hiram Bingham Express to Machu Picchu 

Be one of the lucky ones to secure a ticket to board one of the world’s most enviable train rides this coming year, the Hiram Bingham Express. With high demand and limited spaces, tickets sell out fast which makes it imperative to book early and secure your seat on this once-in-a-lifetime train ride to Machu Picchi, one of 7 New Wonders of the World. 

Starting in Cusco, the train takes you on a three hour journey through the scenic Peruvian Andes to Machu Picchu, providing first-class food and entertainment along the way. After being seated in the retro Pullman Car, you’ll be served a three-course Peruvian lunch followed by cocktails and live music in the bar and observation cars.

Brazil’s Top Luxury South America Tours for 2025

Pantanal Wetlands Safari

Travel deep into the world’s largest wetlands located in central Brazil to discover a side to nature few have seen and even fewer have heard of. This flat landscape of marshes, lakes, rivers, floodplains, and mangroves spanning thousands of miles makes an ideal home for a wide range of rare and wonderful creatures including tapir, capybara, marsh deer, giant otter, and the elusive jaguar. 

Take the incredible opportunity to spot and observe these mesmerizing creatures in their natural habitat on a multi-day Pantanal safari whilst staying at a luxury lodge. From sunrise to the dead of night, each safari, canoe, and hike will be accompanied by an expert naturalist guide who will share their specialist knowledge on the Pantanal’s natural wonders. Meanwhile, your luxury lodge situated in the midst of the wetlands awaits to welcome you back after each outing with deluxe suites and five-star food.

Ecuador’s Top Luxury South America Tours for 2025

5-day Galapagos Cruise

Join a 5-day luxury Galapagos cruise and discover the landscapes and wildlife that make this far-off archipelago in the Pacific Ocean one of the strangest places on Earth. From otherworldly volcanic scenery to rare endemic species, the luxury cruise takes you on a harmonic journey through the history of evolution and conservation of this unique part of the world all while indulging in world-class accommodation, food, and service onboard. 

In five days, you’ll hop from island to island in search of birds, mammals, and reptiles that only those who visit the Galapagos will ever have the privilege of laying eyes on. From snorkeling and diving to dinghy rides and hiking, a new adventure awaits each day to give you a memorable insight into this once-in-a-lifetime destination. These thrilling adventures bring you closer to the Galapagos’ eccentric wild residents including the giant Galapagos tortoise, land iguanas, flightless cormorants, and much more. 

Combine adventures for an extraordinary luxury South America tour for 2025

Don’t choose just one of these luxury South America tours for your next trip, combine your favorites for an extraordinary multi-stop adventure. While the Hiram Bingham train to Machu Picchu is perfectly paired with an Amazon Cruise to see the best of Peru, the private tour of Torres del Pine will be even better when followed by a photography tour of El Chalten. Talk to our South America travel experts to piece these luxury South America tours into the ideal itinerary for your big trip in 2025. Find out more by contacting us here or call toll-free at +1 855 217 9045, or direct on +51 84 656 421.