Bolivia travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Bolivia has begun to use some of its extremes over the last years. The country become a booming hub of adventure and eco-tourism. Bolivia is a landlocked country in central South America.

This is a ”train cemetery” outside the town of Uyuni, which is a favorite spot of departure for tours of the salt flats.

 

The vastness and whiteness of Salar de Uyuni can be ssen from space at 4, 000 square miles.

This is the Fish Island, which is cactus-covered hill bulged from the salt flats like an island rising out of the sea.

 

A hot spring near the Salar de Uyuni.

Bolivia’s much-advertised most dangerous road is Death Road descends 12,000 feet over 40 miles from a mountain pass near La Paz. Now replaced by a modern road for motor traffic, it survives as a bicycle path — third-world infrastructure turned into a tourist attraction.

 

Some British tourists stop for a break on the Most Dangerous Road.

 

Tourists on the Most Dangerous Road examine where they don’t want to go.