Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil
Lençóis Maranhenses Dunes
A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.
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Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil
A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.
Manacapuru, Brazil
An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Cochabamba, Bolivia
This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.
La Paz, Bolivia
During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.
Oruro, Bolivia
This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.
La Paz, Bolivia
A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.
La Paz, Bolivia
In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.
La Paz, Bolivia
The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.
Sajama, Bolivia
A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.
Potosi, Bolivia
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
La Paz, Bolivia
Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.
Colchani, Bolivia
This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.
Sur Lípez, Bolivia
A desert that evokes the surreal.
Copacabana, Bolivia
Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.
Sucre, Bolivia
Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.
Sur Lípez, Bolivia
This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.
Nor Yungas, Bolivia
Death road of Bolivia.
La Paz, Bolivia
Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.
La Paz, Bolivia
A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Sogamoso, Colombia
Largest monument in Colombia depicts 14 lancers who drove back an army.