Hello and welcome to today's independent travelling podcast. I'm in Waterloo in South London,

looking across magnificent view, pretty much on the way down to the north downs. And that's because

oh and look, the old Vic is just there. That's because I'm with, Kaya Neimanjarlane.

He is the director of international payments for the currency online,

who are based here and just get you to the lift.

I've just collected quite a lot of US dollars, and I've done that because, well, I'm going to Latin America.

Kaya, how many Argentinian pesos, Brazilian reales, or currencies of that nature do you sell

people who are going to Latin America and how many US dollars, relatively speaking?

Yeah, good to see you again, Simon.

And you're totally correct that in terms of people going to far-flung destinations,

like Latin America, pink, because of what we call the dollarisation of certain countries,

because their currency, their local currency is quite weak,

they tend to, like, want to demand for the US dollar instead.

So I would say in terms of a split, I'd say most people actually go for the safe haven

US dollar of the low currency.

A lot of travelling to maybe request a bit of both.

But yeah, I'd say they're heavily in favour of the US dollar.

It's good to kind of like get some new dollar notes as well.

So if you can to collect your currency from a company like

ourselves, you can always request the fresh and newer denominations and also, yeah, a mixture of

smaller and large denominations to suit your travel habits. There's a couple of countries in

Latin America, specifically Panama and Ecuador. Well, basically, they've just got the US dollar as their national

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