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Bolivia Official Facts
- Official Language: Spanish
- Population: 8,900,000
- Currency: Bolivian boliviano, BOB
- Major Religions:
Roman Catholic, Protestant - Major Exports:
Main exports include gas and zinc, agricultural products include soybeans (also a major export), coffee, sugar, cotton, corn and timber, coca, sunflower seed (for oil) and organic chocolate
Weather in Bolivia
The weather in Bolivia can vary drastically from one climatic zone to another. The summer months in Bolivia are November through March. The weather is typically warmer, with higher rainfall during these months. The winter months of April through October are typically colder and drier.
Teaching Abroad in Bolivia Overview:
The famous poet Robert Frost, who adamantly took the road less travelled, would have been right at home in Bolivia as it is unscathed by mass tourism. This country has attracted a unique kind of voyager, one that that can appreciate authentic, indigenous culture, and alluring Andean towns and villages surrounded by Mother Nature in all her rugged and majestic glory. It was in Bolivia that the famous outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lived out their final days. Teaching English in Bolivia is much safer, and more enjoyable than robbing banks...trust us on this! The museums, restaurants and other attractions are interesting, appealing and of course free of robbers!
Interesting Facts About Bolivia
- Bolivia is the world's third-largest cultivator of coca.
- Salar de Uyuni, a huge salt desert in the high altitudes of southwestern Bolivia, was once a giant salt lake that dried up thousands of years ago, leaving behind more than 10 billion tons of salt.
- In Sucre you'll find the world's largest paleontological site. On a gigantic limestone slab, there are about 5,000 impressions of dinosaur footprints from 300 different dinosaurs that are embedded on the slanted limestone slab.
- Just over three hundred years ago, Potosi was one of the wealthiest cities in the world, where the streets were said to be made of silver.
- Swiss theorist Erich von Däniken, who visited the Inca ruins in Samaipata twice, wrote in one of his books that he believes the two parallel running grooves carved in the rock were once used as a UFO-launch site.
Highlights of Working Abroad in Bolivia
- Check out the ice caves and turquoise lakes of the Zongo Valley.
- Visit one of Lake Titicaca's 36 islands and sail through the clear sapphire-blue waters to get there.
- Be sure to include a trip to the spurting geysers and eerie lagoons in the southwest's deserts, Salar de Uyuni.
- Enjoy Salteñas - usually a breakfast food, it's a fairly large hot-pocket, pasty-type baked turnover filled with any combination of meat and rice or potatoes or try Bolivia's most popular beverages, cihcha chochabambina, obtained by fermenting corn and Mate de coca (coca leaf tea).
Festivals in Bolivia
Oruro Carnival
In the long-established mining town of Oruro there are 3 days of festivities marked by Mardi Gras and the traditional devil dances for which Bolivia is famous. These festivities commemorate the devil's submission to Christ. Participants dress in satanic costumes and masks, and dance as if gripped by the devil. On the final day there is an enormous water-bomb fight in the town square. Devil figures get soaked and tourists commonly become targets!
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