The book tells about traveling to the most interesting and inaccessible areas of Latin America. The reader learns about the mysterious drawings of the Peruvian desert of Nazca, about the fate of the descendants of the legendary Maya in Mexico, about the life of emerald seekers in Colombia, about the Galapagos Islands, etc. The book is based on the author's personal impressions and rich geographical and ethnographic material collected by him over ten years of work in various countries of Latin America.