Bolivia

Six 17th-18th century Jesuit mission complexes in the dry forest of eastern Bolivia, each centred on a Baroque church blending European and indigenous design; a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The highest navigable lake in the world at 3,812 m, straddling the Bolivia-Peru border; the Bolivian side centres on Copacabana town and Isla del Sol island, sacred to the Inca founding mythology.

A 18,958 km² protected area in northwestern Bolivia spanning the Andes to the Amazon, protecting one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems with over 1,000 bird species and endemic wildlife.

The colonial silver-mining city of Potosí at 4,067 m and the Cerro Rico mountain whose extraordinary ore body drove the world's largest silver mobilisation in the 16th-17th centuries; a UNESCO World Heritage city.

The world's largest salt flat at 10,582 km², 3,656 m above sea level in southwestern Bolivia, famous for its mirror effect in the rainy season and vast lithium reserves beneath the crust.

A pre-Columbian archaeological site 70 km from La Paz, capital of the Tiwanaku civilisation that flourished from c. 550 to 1000 CE; features the Gateway of the Sun, Akapana pyramid, and Pumapunku megalithic temple.