Located in the dry puna of Bolivia, at 4200 m asl, the first protected area of Bolivia provides 100230 ha shelter for the highest forest of the world (Polylepis tarapacana), an amazing wildlife, and is the home of hundreds of families who`s economy depend mostly on camelid livestocks, everything around the highest mountain of Bolivia (volcano Sajama, 6542 m asl).

Experience a new way to understand the outstanding cultural and natural richness of the high andes, including archeological sites such as prehispanic cementeries, impressive churches from the colonial period, or unique landscapes of lagoons, humid highlands, hotsprings and geysers. Among the endangered biodiversity protected in the park, we can find the vicugna, the armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), andean cats or pumas tracks, the andean ostrich, and several aquatic birds.

From this high plateu, it is also possible to watch in the night thousands of stars and to see the Aymara constellations, such as the southern cross, the llama eyes, the condor, the frog, the wool spindle, and other elements that conform the traditions, explain the typical life, and make possible to understand the cosmovision of the Aymara culture.

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