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Bolivia

Bolivia packs the Andes into two unforgettable bases. La Paz is a canyon city strung with the world's most dramatic urban cable car network, where the Mi Teleférico lifts you from the old town and the Witches Market up to El Alto with Illimani glowing behind, while Valle de la Luna, the Tiwanaku ruins, Lake Titicaca and the Death Road ride are all day trips away. Far to the south, the town of Uyuni opens onto the largest salt flat on Earth, with a train cemetery, salt hotels, sunset mirror reflections and the colored lagoons beyond. This guide books Bolivia properly: the right cable car lines, a careful Death Road operator, the Copacabana and Isla del Sol day trip, Uyuni salt flat tours by the day or by the three-day expedition, and the cultural color of cholitas wrestling. Then it matches you to the right hotel, from a design hotel in La Paz's calm southern zone to a hotel built of salt at the edge of the Salar, because at this altitude where you sleep shapes everything.