Bolivia Complete Guide 2026: Salar de Uyuni, La Paz, Lake Titicaca, Sucre and Potosí for First-Time Travelers
Browse more guides: Bolivia travel | South America destinations Bolivia Complete Guide 2026: Salar de Uyuni, La Paz, Lake Titicaca, Sucre and Potosí for First-Time Travelers TL;DR Bolivia sits high on the Andean shelf, ringed by salt flats, glacial lakes, silver mountains and Amazon rainforest, and after spending the better part of a month moving between La Paz, Uyuni, Sucre, Potosí and Lake Titicaca, I came back convinced that this is the most underrated country on the South American continent. The currency is pegged at roughly 6.96 Bolivianos to the United States dollar and has been fixed at that rate since 2011, so a meal that would cost twelve dollars in Buenos Aires often costs three or four here, and a three day jeep tour across the world's largest salt flat starts around one hundred and twenty US dollars in the budget category. The Salar de Uyuni stretches across 10,582 square kilometres of cracked white crust at 3,650 metres elevation, and from November through April a...