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Bolivia Dropped Its Visa Requirement for Americans: What It Means for 2026 Travel

On December 1, 2025, Bolivia moved the United States into its visa-free category and ended the $160 reciprocity fee that had stood since 2007. Entry is now the simplest part of a Bolivian trip. Moving around the country is the harder part.
Bolivia Protests and Travel in 2026 12 min read

Bolivia Protests and Travel in 2026

Bolivia is in its worst crisis in decades, and protests and road blockades are disrupting travel across the highlands. An honest, up-to-date look at what is happening, which areas are affected, and how to plan a trip to Bolivia right now.
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Birding in Bolivia: Endemic Species and Remote Reserves

1,410 species. 16 endemic taxa. Four distinct ecosystems inside a single two-week itinerary. Where Peru’s Manu Biosphere Reserve and Ecuador’s Yasuní absorb most of the regional birding traffic, Bolivia’s reserves see few foreign birders at all.
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Amboro National Park, Bolivia: The Complete Guide

Where the Amazon, the Andes, and the dry Chaco collide: prehistoric giant ferns, jaguars and spectacled bears, and one of the richest bird lists on Earth. Here is how to experience Bolivia’s wildest park, and the crucial difference between its two sides.
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A Guide to Seeing Jaguars in Guyana

Guyana is one of the last countries on Earth where the jaguar still occupies nearly all of its historic habitat. Scientists put the national density at somewhere between 1.5 and 2.6 jaguars per hundred square kilometers, with pockets in the Rupununi savannas running higher. For travelers, that makes Guyana one of the few countries where tracking a wild, unhabituated jaguar is a genuine option.
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The Best Places to Go Around Issyk-Kul Kyrgyzstan

Issyk-Kul is 182 kilometers long, 668 meters deep, and almost never explored beyond the north shore beach. Behind it: glacial lakes, eagle hunters, Bronze Age petroglyphs, sandstone canyon country, and backcountry ski terrain that most of the world has never heard of. Ten places worth going.
El Choro Trek: Three Days from the Andes to the Amazon 9 min read

El Choro Trek: Three Days from the Andes to the Amazon

El Choro drops 3,000 meters from La Paz's doorstep to the cloud forests of the Yungas in three days, crossing five ecological zones on a road that has been in continuous use for over a thousand years. Here is everything you need to know before you go.
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A Week in the Tien Shan

Four days on the Ala-Kul circuit, a pass that closes for eight months of the year, and the shepherd families who are only up there while the grass holds.
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The Shepherds of the Jailoo

Three generations of one family still move their herds up to the summer pasture below Ala-Kul every June, and the season is getting shorter.

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