A rewarding country for the resilient, you’ll find extreme landscapes of remote jungle, soaring mountains, and moonlike plains, a stalwart and proud people, remarkably intricate weavings, and a warm welcome.
Places of Interest
Amazon Basin
This region of the rainforest basin is less touristically developed than most, which has it advantages and disadvantages! The rainforest has been less impacted by tourism, but is equally less accessible. However, for those with a passion for nature, it will be worth the effort. Madidi National Park, the Beni Region, and Noel Kempff Mercado National Park each is worth exploring.
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La Paz and Lake Titicaca
La Paz’ altitude will leave you breathless, but her lively market areas are worth wandering. Stunningly beautiful Lake Titicaca shelters the cultural heritage of the Incas. Less well known is the Tiwanaku culture that reigned a thousand years before the Inca, and whose architectural and engineering accomplishments inspired the Inca.
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Sucre and Potosí
Sucre is a beautiful and historical colonial city. This region has a rich textile tradition, which you’ll observe, at the Tarabuco Market. Sucre is also home to an amazing cliff embedded with the prehistoric tracks of nearly 150 dinosaurs. Potosí in its heyday supplied extraordinary quantities of silver to Spain from its mines and retains many of its beautiful colonial buildings. Stop in the miner’s market before heading for a sobering visit to the mines, where conditions are not so different from those of the 16th C.
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Uyuni Salt Lake
Surely one of the world’s natural wonders, this salt lake is FOUR THOUSAND SQUARE MILES of remarkable landscape – endless white offset by Andean peaks and volcanoes on the horizon, occasional islands of cactus and shrubs, and the flight of pink flamingoes.
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