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31. Samarkand
Peak population: 100,000
Peak population year(s): 400 B.C., 300 B.C.
Location 39.7° 66.9°, present day Uzbekistan
The famed city of Samarkand, known in ancient times as Sumargand, was an important stop on the storied Silk Road trading route. The city, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, dates back to the seventh century B.C.
From the Giza Pyramids in Egypt to the Nazca Lines in Peru, these UNESCO sites come with the added allure of alien visitation theories. Find out whether seasoned archaeologists agree.
Source: Have you visited these UNESCO sites? Some say aliens have
Rich cultural heritage, bustling markets & epic landscapes make this country a winner! Here’s the 21 top things to do in Bolivia to convince you to go!
Source: Top 21 Things To Do in Bolivia
Source: Sucre: A Low-Cost Colonial Haven in the Bolivian Highlands – IL
In this city founded in 1538, the buildings aren’t just historically significant; they’re breathtakingly beautiful.
Source: Sucre, Bolivia: This elegant colonial city feels like a little slice of Europe
3D printing and archeological projects are making a great couple! An archeology team from California decided to help to reconstruct the ruins of Tiwanaku…
Bolivia – Historic City of Sucre
If you’re going to Bolivia to see the Uyuni Salt Flats, you may be wondering what else there is to do there. If you’re looking for other places to visit in Bolivia, definitely consider adding a few days in Sucre to your itinerary. The beautiful, white city of Sucre is the capital of Bolivia and the historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
One day is plenty of time to see all the main highlights in Sucre. To help plan your trip, here are the best things to see and do in Sucre, including where to eat and where to stay. Click on the GPS Locations below to save them to your Google Maps for future reference.
Historic Centre
Here you can see the main square, a garden with palm trees, and visit the Sucre Cathedral and museum.
San Felipe Neri
This was one of my favorite places in Sucre!
You can go up to the roof for a fabulous view of the city.
The tiles are all mismatched and so colorful!
Read more from source: Best Things to Do in Sucre, Bolivia | Kevin & Amanda | Food & Travel Blog
Bolivia – Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia’s few surviving Jesuit missions.
Enter this 18th-century church, and you’ll find yourself immersed in a world of bright colors, intricate patterns, and superb architectural details. It’s a feast for the eyes, made possible by a troubling concoction of Old World colonialism and New World traditions.
The church is part of the mission of San Xavier (sometimes also spelled San Javier). The mission was first established in 1691, but moved around a bit before finding its permanent spot in the 18th century. A Swiss Jesuit architect completed the church that still stands today in 1752.
Missions sprouted up across Bolivia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Each one typically featured a church, workshop, and school, all centered around a courtyard. Jesuits sent by the Spanish Crown to explore the South American frontiers created them to convert the indigenous people to Christianity.
Despite their colonial pasts, which sadly involved removing native people from their homes and forcing them to convert, the missions stand as beautiful examples of New World religious architecture.
Source: Mission Church of San Xavier
Bolivia – City of Potosí
Florida manatees swim and sleep in the sunshine and golden-brown panthers prowl the shady forests at Everglades National Park.
A swampy wilderness of gnarled cypress stands and waving sawgrass just beyond Miami’s suburbs, this 1.5 million-acre UNESCO World Heritage Site can seem timeless.
But rising sea levels have spiked the fresh groundwater beneath the Everglades with salt, and plants and wildlife must quickly adapt to new conditions to survive.
That’s why the Everglades are among the eight World Heritage Sites in the Americas included in UNESCO’s list of “World Heritage in Danger,” an exclusive club of 55 destinations, dominated by war-torn countries and terrorist hotspots.
Stretching from the Florida backwoods to an ancient Peruvian city and ghostly Chilean mines, these eight sites are some of the Americas’ most extraordinary places.
Bolivia – City of Potosí
Are you stressed, bored or in dire need of an excuse to take a little ‘vacay’ out of the country? Our world is a huge place to cover and popular has become boring. So pause your US and Europe plans for just a second, have you considered South America?
Well, geography isn’t everyone’s strong-suit so here is a little reminder – South America boasts some of the world’s finest places; Amazon – the world’s largest rainforest, The Andes – the world’s longest mountain ranges and Angel Falls – the world’s highest waterfalls are all found in South America.
Do we have your attention now? Good. We’re going to tell you about some of the popular destinations that most tourists visit in South America and some that will just be a treat for you peeps.
Where everyone goes in South America and you should too
1. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bolivia – Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
LA PAZ – Located in the lower eastern zone of Bolivia, far from the arid altiplano, among huge haciendas and isolated communities, are the last functioning Jesuit missions in the Southern Cone, those that survived destruction after the expulsion of the Jesuits in the 18th century.
In Bolivia’s Chiquitania region, located in eastern Santa Cruz province, there are six missions recognized in 1990 as Unesco World Heritage Sites: San Javier, Concepcion, Santa Ana, San Miguel, San Rafael and San Jose de Chiquitos.
Founded by the Jesuits between 1696 and 1760, all have virtually their entire original structures, the facades bearing the characteristic ochre tones and even the paintings that church officials and local residents made during that period.
Currently, local residents continue attending mass inside the missions and listening to the music from the organs there, which have hundreds of years of history.
Bolivia – Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
2016 was a big year on our little road trip through the Americas with a total of 15,200 miles (24,462 km) on the road. While that pales in comparison to the miles we were putting on annually when we were in North America nearly a decade ago, it’s double the mileage of most recent years.
All those miles really got us around and in 2016 we visited or revisited seven countries: Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina. Our previous record was five countries in one year back in 2011 when we were in Central America. We also had a record eight border crossings in 2016, bringing our total border crossings for the Journey so far to 56. For more amazing road trip stats, visit our freshly updated Facts & Figures page.
We look at skyscrapers and dams and see them as pinnacles of human engineering, content in the fact we can build whatever we want. However, we often fail
to remember the technological marvels of ancient history—buildings or temples which seemed impossible to construct by primitive cultures. Here are ten hopefully lesser-known examples of amazing ancient construction.
Located in Northwestern New Mexico, Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most well-known example of a great house (village) built by the ancestral Pueblo people. The village’s construction began in the early part of the 10th century AD and continued for nearly 180 years, reaching a peak of around 800 separate rooms, with some buildings having as many as five stories.
It was first discovered in 1849 by US Army Lieutenant James H. Simpson and his guide, Carravahal.
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Wanderlust has listed the most amazing UNESCO-listed sites to visit for culture, history and intrigue in America’s southern hemisphere, in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia…
Source: 21 best UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Latin America
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Construction workers in Bolivia have stumbled upon a mass grave with the remains of hundreds of likely indigenous miners during the Spanish colonial era, a researcher said Saturday.
Source: Hundreds of human skeletons found in Bolivian mining city – World News
Photo: AFP
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