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Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, at over 10,000 km² in area and can be found in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes with an elevation of 3,656 m above sea level.

The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes that existed around forty thousand years ago but had all evaporated over time. It is now covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average elevation variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar. The stretch of salt creates a never-ending white landscape during the dry season, but the area is most breathtaking in the rainy season when it is covered in water and reflects the sky.

Tiwanaku is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia near Lake Titicaca, about 70 km from La Paz, and it is one of the largest sites in South America.

Archaeologists have excavated only a small part of the city, but they estimate that at its peak at least 20,000 people lived in the city. Excavations have shown that the citizens lived in separate neighborhoods, which were enclosed by large adobe walls. Other remains found in Tiwanaku include temples, a pyramid, large gates and carvings of alien-like faces.

Sucre is the constitutional capital of Bolivia, located in the south-central part of the country, at an elevation of 2,810 meters. Because of the beautiful whitewashed and well-kept buildings, the city is known throughout South America as the White city.

Today Sucre remains a city of major national importance and is an educational and government center, being the location of the Bolivian Supreme Court. Notably, Sucre contains one of the best-preserved Hispanic colonial and republican historic city centres in the Western Hemisphere. This architectural heritage and the history of the Charcas region has led to Sucre’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.