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A Place to Discover Bolivia Through Culture, Traditions, News, and It's People

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7 steps to Bolivian Cultural Immersion

There are many ways to enjoy this wonderfully diverse country in South America. Bolivia is a small landlocked country in the middle of South America between Paraguay and Chile. It has many things to offer visitors from rich ecological tours to brilliant pre Columbian historical sites. It is a small adventure waiting to happen here [...]

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Bolivia: The Rugged High Plains

Bolivia is sometimes called the Tibet of the Americas, for its arid, high-altitude desert-like plateau, more vivid when called by its Spanish name altiplano. This is one of the toughest inhabited environments on earth from shimmering Lake Titicaca, the only lake to give birth to an empire, to the surreal Salar de Uyuni, the biggest [...]

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Top Historical Places To Visit in Bolivia

For those visiting Bolivia it is a must to visit Lake Titicaca which lies 94 miles northwest of La Paz. This vast lake is the birthplace of one of the greatest empires in history as it was here the Children of the Sun stepped forth from the sacred rock and the Incas began.
The water is [...]

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Top 3 places to Visit in Bolivia

Here are three exceptional locations that anyone going into Bolivia should experience. There are a lot of other activates as well but these seem to be the top three among most visitors. They let you experience what Bolivia has to offer in unique and exciting ways.
El Pantanals
This is a great location to experience some [...]

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Bolivia's Chacaltaya glacier is gone

If anyone needs a reminder of the on-the-ground impacts of global climate change, come to the Andes mountains in Bolivia. At 17,388 feet above sea level, Chacaltaya, an 18,000 year-old glacier that delighted thousands of visitors for decades, is gone, completely melted away as of some sad, undetermined moment early this year.
”Chacaltaya has disappeared. It [...]

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