Culture & History

Coca leaves arrive at the table in La Paz within ten minutes of you sitting down. The waiter brings a small ceramic teapot, a cup, and a bag of dried green leaves; you pour, you wait, you drink. The ritual is so domestic and so unremarkable to the people serving it that travelers regularly miss … Read more

In 2025 Bolivia lost more primary tropical forest than any country in the world except Brazil. The figure was 1.5 million acres, slightly less than the entire surface area of the state of Delaware, gone in a single year. The University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute, who run the global tree-loss tracking that … Read more