A drive down Bolivia's infamous "Death Road" takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold. After cresting ...

Midway through Bolivia, where the Amazon and the Andes meet, is a notoriously beautiful and treacherous path. Officially known as North Yungas Road but more infamously as “The Death Road,” this track ...

Bolivia’s North Yungas Road is a 56 kilometer descent carved into sheer cliffs, dropping more than 3,500 meters with no ...

Los Yungas in Bolivia, is a narrow region extending from La Paz to the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, characterized by its humid climate with constant mists and high rainfall; It has green ...

Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions, escalating a long-simmering conflict for control of legal coca production in ...

See a photo of it — like the one above — and you’re immediately hit with a feeling of impending doom. So imagine approaching the dirt road, twisting and turning at an altitude of more than 4600m, from ...

For hundreds of years, the tiny Kingdom of the Afro-Bolivians lay hidden from the outside world. 50 Reasons to Love the World - 2021 Why do you love the world? “Because I’m very happy that [my son ...

During a long-term survey of the parasites of mammals from all over Bolivia, 44 individuals of Oxymycterus inca and 6 of Oxymycterus paramensis were collected and examined for parasites from the ...

In the Yungas region of the Salta province, Argentina, interest in the use of plant dyes has revived due to new market demands and the growth of rural tourism. In this study we compare the use of ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. To one side is solid rock. To the other, a 2,000-foot abyss. In between is a two-way, ...

Twenty-five years ago, a passenger-filled bus plunged off a precipitous cliff in the Bolivian Andes, sending more than 100 people crashing to their death on the canyon floor below. Unlike many ...