Bolivia may not be your first choice as you think of travel destinations to consider in South America, but wait till you learn more about what this country has to offer. Ruggedly located near Argentina and Brazil, Bolivia is very rich in natural resources and heritage. Below are some of the places you can visit and things that you can do as you explore this country. Make sure you have your camera ready to take those precious photos that will forever remind you of this magnificent place.

Bolivia – the most beautifull Andes in South America. The surreal landscape is nearly treeless, punctuated by gentle hills and volcanoes near Chilean border.

Titicaca Lake

Lake Titicaca
Known as South America’s largest lake, Titicaca is also the highest lake in the world that is commercially navigable. Several small islands are also scattered around the freshwater, such as the Isla de a Luna and Isla del Sol.

Bolivia - the world's largest salt flat sits at a lofty 3653m and blankets an amazing 12,106 sq km, the surreal landscape. The picture present place where the people bring out a salt from the Salar de Uyuni. Salt hotel

Salar de Uyuni
This is a very popular thing to do in Bolivia, and to make this happen you should plan your visit on a rainy season which is from November to March. You can literally step on the salt flats and take pictures.

Cochabamba
This is one of Bolivia’s most popular cities where you can find a variety of restaurants and bars. Despite of its prosperous look, Cochabamba is relatively an affordable city to check out in Bolivia especially if budget is among your major concerns.

La Paz, Bolivia

La Paz
Although La Paz is not the country’s capital, it is considered to be the most commercialized and largest city in Bolivia. It has a lot to offer ranging from different restaurants, markets and museums.

The Amazon Basin
Make sure you do not miss this amazing spot in Bolivia. You will surely be mesmerized by the Amazon Basin’s magnificent rainforest and wildlife. Enjoy its main rivers by going on journeys in canoes, cargo boats or hotel-like riverboats. Feast your eyes on beautiful flora and fauna, along with rare species that you cannot see anywhere else but here.

Interesting to know

Bolivia is a small country in central South America named after a legendary South American leader called Simon Bolivar. This is one of those very rare instances where a country is named after any person. The other countries in the same league are Columbia (named after Christopher Columbus), Dominican Republic (named after Saint Dominic),Georgia (named after Saint George), and Bharat (named after Bharata) and so on.

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830). Remembered as the Founder of la Gran Colombia (The Great Colombia: Ecuador, Colombia & Venezuela), and Liberator of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. This statue is located in the Iber-American Plaza next to Central station in Sydney, NSW Australia. The Iber-American Plaza was founded to commemorate the contribution of Spanish and Portugese speaking people to Australia. All statues in the Plaza are in the public domain.

Simon Bolivar was born to a very affluent and aristocratic family but led a tumultuous life traveling far and wide to be educated. He was orphaned quite early in life – first losing his father at the age of two and a half and then his mother at the age of nine. This variety and exposure to different cultures and political atmospheres probably planted the seed of liberation, freedom and democracy for his countrymen. The present South American countries like Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia and their political parties claim to believe in and follow Simon Bolivar’s political acumen, nearly a couple of centuries later.

Beliefs - Simon Bolivar quotes are many, but among those one is significantly relevant even today to politics as well everyday lives. It goes like this ‘Fight and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance’…

Life - Simon Bolivar was born as Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios y Blanco on 24th July 1783 in his Caracas family home…

Education - The young Simon Bolivar was first placed in the care of Miguel Jose Sanz, after his mother’s death, to be educated; the teacher turned out to be extremely strict…

Interesting facts - Manuela Saenz was Simon Bolivar’s longstanding love of life. She was instrumental in saving his life from imminent death in the year 1815…

Simon Bolivar vowed to set his countrymen free from the slavery of the Spanish crown and was able to do so after fighting long, weary battles for years. Thus Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Columbia and Panama got their freedom and independence after a total of 696 battles were fought with approximately 1400 soldiers in every skirmish. This achievement was honored by George Washington through Marquis de Lafayette when he sent a gold medallion which read ‘The second Washington of the New World’, to Simon Bolivar.