Bolivia's Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
While it is Bolivia’s most populous city, Santa Cruz retains a small town atmosphere that welcomes visitors into its lively setting. Peppered with international restaurants, trendy your, and Japanese, German, Italian, Eastern European, Arabic, Indian Sikh and German Canadian Mennonite communities, Santa Cruz proves one of the most cosmopolitan Bolivian cities as well.
From this booming economic metropolis, travelers will enjoy a myriad of highlights just outside the city. Visit the charming Jesuit mission towns, which contain the country’s most fascinating examples of Jesuit architecture, or venture to the Pre-Inca ruins that hide near the small town of Samaipata. Miles of trekking and a bounty of wildlife await in the little disturbed Parque Nacional Amboro, or witness where Che Guevara met his maker at the northern end of the Che Trail in Higuera and Vallegrande.
