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Best Budget Travel Destinations in Latin America

31 city guides · 3-day budget travel itineraries

3-day city guides for budget travellers — free attractions, cheap eats and low-cost adventures.

Latin America
🇵🇾 Paraguay

Asuncion

Free-entry museums, 10.000-guaraní market lunches, 3.400-guaraní buses and hilltop viewpoints that c…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Barranquilla

Free river boardwalks, street-corner arepas de huevo, public art parks and a Metrobus that crosses t…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Twelve free museums on one square, city-subsidised R$3 hot meals, standing-counter market snacks and…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Bogota

Free art collections, tip-based street-art walks, market corrientazos and cerro viewpoints across th…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Brasilia

Open-door Niemeyer interiors, R$5.50 metro rides to Ceilândia's food stalls and free lake decks faci…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Buenos Aires

Free national galleries, a 1919 theatre you can read in, standing-room pizza on Corrientes and 350 h…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cali

Free museums, wholesale fruit markets, a hilltop hike and a cold mountain river — Cali on COP 80,000…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Caracas

Free Villanueva architecture, market lunches under Bs. 150 and the Ávila climbed on foot instead of …

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cartagena

Sloths in a free city park, a no-ticket gold museum, corrientazo lunches under COP 20,000 and a 12,0…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Curitiba

Free immigrant-memorial woodlands, a R$10 observation tower, R$25 prato feito and a 1,000-stall Sund…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Cusco

Open-street Inca stonework, S/6 market lunches, boleto-free archaeological sites and the miradors no…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Fortaleza, Brazil

Free mangrove parks, R$3.50 metro rides, wholesale-market cuscuz and clifftop sunsets that never cha…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Guayaquil

Free national museums, US$2.50 encebollado at the fishing wharf, a US$0.70 cable car across the Guay…

Latin America
🇧🇴 Bolivia

La Paz

Free hilltop viewpoints, four museums on one ticket, 15 Bs canyon walks and full market lunches unde…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Lima

Colonial squares and free museums, market menús under S/18, and clifftop views paid for with bus far…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Mar Del Plata

Free clifftop miradores, 5-peso-a-block colectivos, municipal markets and a working port where nothi…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Maracaibo

Free colonial patios, Bs. 50 street feasts and lakeside viewpoints that cost nothing but sweat.…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Medellin

Free hilltop parks, COP 3.500 empanadas and a metro network that doubles as a sightseeing tour.…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Montevideo

Free national museums, UYU 200 market lunches, a UYU 54 bus to the best viewpoint and beaches that n…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Porto Alegre

Free museums, R$10 street lunches, public bike paths and the cheapest sunset in Brazil — Porto Alegr…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Punta Arenas

Free Antarctic exhibits, a $500 colectivo network, market cocinerías and end-of-the-world viewpoints…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Punta Del Este

Free museums, a 190-hectare public arboretum, Maldonado street markets and rotisería picnics in Sout…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Quito

Free hilltop parks, Banco Central museums that charge nothing, market comedores and a cable car that…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Recife

An open-air sculpture pier, a subsidised R$2 state canteen, 1872 market breakfasts and Olinda's free…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

Granite viewpoints that cost nothing, market plates under R$30, and the staircases, trails and readi…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Rosario

Free museums, a 1943 café menú del día, Sunday street fairs and cheap island boats along the Paraná.…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Salvador

Free churches and viewpoints, a R$9 island ferry, R$8 market breakfasts and the cheapest sunsets in …

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Santiago

Free national museums, $4.000 CLP market lunches and hill-top Andes panoramas — Santiago without spe…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Sao Paulo

Free museums, monastery bakeries, R$ 5.20 metro hops and the sunset spots paulistanos use when they …

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Ushuaia

Free glacier trails, waterfront swan lagoons, ARS 12,000 lunches and sunset miradors at the end of t…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Valparaiso

Open-air street art museums, no-charge heritage cemeteries and viewpoints, CLP 3.500 market cazuelas…