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Colombia: Drug lord's decaying paradise
Tourists can now wander freely around the former mansion of infamous cocaine trafficker Pablo Escobar, writes Amy Rosenfeld.
Guatape, Colombia
This town of 11,000 people, about two hours' drive from Medellín, is home to a huge hydro-electric dam and was the former holiday playground of infamous Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, whose crumbling mansion in the area is now a drawcard for tourists.
Buenos Aires: Vertical expression
Derek Cheng visits the home of the tango... and discovers he has a lot to unlearn.
Gold fever returns to Northland
As mining makes a political comeback Catherine Masters finds strong local opposition to the prospect of a Northland gold rush
Olympics: Gold dreams - our most likely winners
New Zealand won’t win eight golds in London, but it doesn’t stop anybody dreaming of stepping on top of the dais.
Way beyond the end of the world
Ushuaia's self-proclaimed status that it is the "end of the world" prompts a natural question: what lies beyond the port?
'I'm very musically talented' - Paris Hilton makes DJ debut (+video)
Socialite, former reality TV queen and aspiring DJ Paris Hilton is getting ready to assault the charts again.
Machu Picchu, Peru
The Lost City of the Incas, perched high in the Peruvian Andes, continues to inspire awe in visitors more than 500 years after it was deserted by those who created it.
Peru: Escaping Machu Picchu's madding crowds
Jill Worrall finds some solitude around the wildly-popular Incan ruins of Machu Picchu.
El Tatio geyser field, Chile
This geothermal field, 4300m up in the Andes, is home to about 80 active geysers of varying sizes and is one of the most spectacular excursions in the Atacama Desert.
Chile: Blowing hot and cold
Visiting the El Tatio geysers is best at first light - in the sub-zero chill, writes Anna Leask.
'No contact' tribes under threat from Peru tours
New concerns about "human safaris" are now being raised in Peru, where tour operators are profiting from the exploitation of indigenous tribes in the Amazon jungle.