Bolivia Travel News

Lackluster public transportation, declining environmental quality and overwhelming summer crowds were among the factors that landed Cape Cod in the middle of the pack in a new ranking of 133 iconic travel destinations by National Geographic Traveler magazine.

While backpacking Fernando Martinez-Pechs had already faced his fair share of bumps in the road when he found himself strapped for cash in Uyuni, Bolivia, last summer.

Bolivia plans by 2018 to begin producing lithium batteries for use in electric cars, according to a plan outlined on Wednesday by the Andean nation's deputy minister of Science and Technology.

At first sight, Calle de las Brujas doesn't look so witchy -- there are no steaming cauldrons or pointy hats.

Fernando Guzman Aranda, 35, is from La Paz, Bolivia, in South America. He is the director of the Academia de Idiomas R.G.A., the first Chinese language academy in La Paz.

It is by now well known in the tech world that global companies and investors are beating a path to Israel.

A dozen 600-liter barrels full of metal brine sit on a warehouse floor ready to be shipped abroad for analysis, the first step in Bolivia s quest to exploit vast lithium deposits in the Uyuni salt flats.

"Chris' Top Ten Favourite Places" is a regular feature of top travel destinations selected from Chris Robinson's personal experience.

On Friday, at a ceremony in Paris, the Democracy Center will be named by Politics Online as one of the Top Ten Groups in the World Changing the Internet and Politics.

Explore a land of mystic peaks, enchanted forests and crystal fields of ice. Not so far, far away in a place called Montana.

Norman Pillsbury is a professor emeritus of Cal Poly State University in forestry and hydrology.

Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on the creation of a regional currency to scale back on the use of the US dollar as well as economic sanctions against Honduran coup leaders.

Wazzup with all the different types of bus stations in Bolivia? Did you that know at bus stations in Bolivia you usually can't reserve bus tickets in advance? Here in Bolivia there are dozens of bus companies.

In Bolivia buses are the most common form of transportation in the city and between cities.

Paraguay hardly makes headlines. Neither has it made a name for itself as a tourist destination.

Okay readers, here is a little experiment to see which of you has been paying most attention to news events in Bolivia over the past week.

Land of the brave : "On a journey of extremes, Rick Feneley finds South America's richest rewards are in its poorest country." The author details areas of Bolivia that he visits, including: Included is some history and some recommendations for tours and places to stay.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Source: European Southern Observatory - Comments This week marks the beginning of the GalileoMobile Project, a two-month expedition to bring the wonder and excitement of astronomy to young people in Chile, Bolivia and Peru.

The GalileoMobile journey starts Oct. 5, 2009, in Antofagasta, Chile. From Antofagasta the GalileoMobile heads north through La Paz in Bolivia and on into Peru.

Many people underestimate the effects of altitude sickness in Bolivia, especially in La Paz, the Altiplano and Potosi.