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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.

Patagonia is a geographical region of South America. Mostly located in Argentina and partly in Chile. Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park is one of the destinations that draws trekkers to Patagonia.

Tourism in torres del Paine has raised in the recent years with North Americans. A tour group from the Exploralodge in the park.

Hikers being transferred to a boat on Lago Grey. This is the only one place with glaceries accessible in Patagonia.

Guanacos in Torres del Paine National Park.

A variaion of a lady’s slipper on the trail.

Tayorna National Park is one of the wildest and most beautiful places of South America. The park has stretched out 58 square miles carved with the equatorial rain forest and amazing species such as dusky titi monkeys, red squirrels, collared peccaries, jaguars and 200 species of birds, ranging from Caribbean toucans to red woodpeckers.

Just beneath the mountains extend palm-fringed beaches, farmed by sea boulders and connected by footpaths through the jungle.

The jumping-off point for Tayrona is the coastal city of Santa Marta, Colombia’s oldest town, founded by the Spanish in 1525 and best known as the place where Simón Bolívar, the Latin American liberator, died. The old part of town, anchored around a charming cobblestone plaza and a centuries-old cathedral, possesses a smattering of faded old hotels and apartment buildings with marble-tiled courtyards, fountains and other flourishes.

This is an absolutely fantastic art center located in Santo Domingo, Colombia and is real future of post-apocalyptic architecture to look like. The design of the center invites everyone. Inside is most modern cultural showcases, with sharp angles and the inoffensive use of white paint and pale woods.

In this superb architecture building visitors can find a library, cafe and restaurant, bars and many many spacious rooms with elements of art all over.

Architect Giancarlo Mazzanti distribute the obtrusive and predictable rearrangements of glass, steal and concrete phallic references with this organically inspired beacon of grounded, yet ethereal modernity.

Celebrating nature’s beauty and remindingof the impermanence of most man-made structures, this design invites everyone closer without the subconscious feeling you are merely a visitor in someone else’s domain.

La Boca is one of the most ancient and popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic. The place is very colourful, instead of dirt, noise, obscure.

But if you walked through the neigborhood for sure you will bump into surrprisingly clear river with amazing romantic view. Across the river you see almost every day a crowded row of twenty, maybe thirty people, painting their landscape.

La Boca has too much history. It’s located at the border of the Raichuelo (a small river), and it was a refuge for the immigrants form Italy and Spain, who arrived between the years 1880 and 1930. The neighborhood is a mix of wonderful colours. The houses were made with wood and metal sheet, and the walls were painted with the leftlovers of paintings.

All these beautiful colours are the main characteristic of this palce. Painters and photographs loved them, especially the artists. Many of the artists every Sunday work and sell their works of art around Caminito (little road). Caminito is the most precious icon of La Boca. It collect the tourist movement and offers ‘tango’ shows with music and dance. Caminito has particular character with its restorment of the houses. Most of them become open art galleries.

Everything in La Boca is a genuine example of the Buenos Aires culture.

Some of the photographs are estimate highly and made by Harry Kikstra.