Willmary Montilla reports for Bolivia.com: The small city of Copacabana, has a great attraction, the Isla del Sol [Island of the Sun], and the archaeological attractions are multiple, if you have not yet gone, take advantage of the next holiday to visit it. Isla del Sol and all its attractions remained closed for almost two…
Category: Tourism
Torotoro National Park Dinosaur Footprints
Atlas Obscura reports: Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park. There are plenty of things to see and do in Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park. You can trek along the numerous canyons that cut through the semi-arid landscape, the deepest reaching depths of almost 1,000 feet. You can bathe in natural swimming pools, some…
New Reserve Safeguards Vital Landscape in Bolivia
Madison Lemelin reports for Rainforest Trust: This week, Rainforest Trust and partner Wildlife Conservation Society-Bolivia (WCS-Bolivia) established the Rhukanrhuka Municipal Reserve. The 2,123,749-acre reserve in the Beni region protects grasslands found in the transition area between the Sub-Andean and Llanos de Mojos Ecosystems. The Beni grasslands, an area twice the size of Portugal, is South…
Bolivia’s Most Colorful Neighborhood
Bloomberg’s colorful video:
Harsh, gruelling, awesome
Otago Daily Times report: Laguna Colorada, created in 1973 mainly to protect flamingo and vicuna, covers around 7.5 hectares. PHOTOS: ELEANOR HUGHES Eleanor Hughes has an unforgettable experience travelling across the Bolivian Altiplano. Google Maps has directed us overland from Colombia to Uyuni, Bolivia, with no problem. When it’s announced that Pietro, a local guide,…
Tourism 101: Lonely Planet’s Bolivia: South America’s diverse and intriguing jewel
More than 40-thousand dancers and musicians take part in the annual Festival of the Feast of the Lord of Power through the streets of Bolivia’s capital each May. Superlative in its natural beauty, rugged, vexing, complex and slightly nerve-racking, Bolivia is one of South America’s most diverse and intriguing nations. ADVENTURE Bolivia is not for…
