It's official: I love La Paz. I had no idea what to expect upon arrival, having heard so little about the city while living in the States. It's the highest capitol in the world at over 11,500ft in elevation, and the surrounding area is mountainous and full of outdoor activities galore...
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Salar de Uyuni
Salar de Uyuni, amid the Andes in southwest Bolivia, is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s the legacy of a prehistoric lake that went dry, leaving behind a desertlike, 10,582 square kilometer (4,086 sq mi) landscape of bright-white salt, rock formations and cacti-studded islands. It is roughly 100 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States...
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At Death Road, we biked through the jungle, dropping 11,000 feet in elevation, and hitting speeds of 54mph on pavement and 34mph off road. Most of the road has no guardrails and runs along the edge of cliffs as high as 2,000 feet. Death Road has killed hundreds of people year after year, and earned it the title of “world’s most dangerous road” in 1995...
Read MoreMy apartment in La Paz, Bolivia
For La Paz, our living arrangements aren't too unlike Buenos Aires. We have one large building with about 30 Remotes, another building with about 15 Remotes, and then the rest of the Remotes are spread out in random apartments.
Read MoreMonth 3: La Paz, Bolivia
La Paz is the highest administrative capital in the world, resting on the Andes’ Altiplano plateau at more than 3,500m (11,500ft) above sea level. It stretches to El Alto, a city in the highlands, with snow-capped, 6,438m-high Mt. Illimani as its backdrop...
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