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Two things about entering Bolivia surprise people. A yellow fever certificate is required of every arriving traveler rather than recommended, and the stamp in your passport may say 30 days when the allowance is 90.
Bolivia has no single climate. The altiplano, the valleys and the lowland east sit at such different elevations that they behave as separate countries, and a trip that crosses them needs clothes for all three.
Bolivia uses the boliviano and it is a cash country to a degree that surprises visitors arriving from elsewhere in the region. Cards work in city hotels and restaurants and stop working quickly beyond them.
Bolivia asks you to pack for a freezing high plateau and a humid tropical lowland at the same time. Layers solve most of it; the altitude and the ultraviolet solve none of it and need their own thought.
Bolivia is big, mountainous and slower to cross than the map suggests. La Paz solved its own geography with cable cars; the rest of the country runs on buses and on patience.
Two things are more likely to disrupt a Bolivian trip than crime: altitude, and a road that closes without notice. Both are manageable if you plan for them, and neither is a reason not to go.
Bolivia is constitutionally plurinational and majority Indigenous, and that is not a detail of background. It shapes how people identify, what they wear, which languages they speak and how a visitor should behave.
Bolivian food is regional, filling and built around ingredients the Andes domesticated. The best of it is in markets and in small places that do one thing, not in restaurants aimed at visitors.
Bolivia rewards unhurried travel, which suits many older travelers well. The thing to plan around is not age but altitude, and the order in which the trip climbs.
Bolivia is among the harder countries in the region for a traveler with reduced mobility, and saying otherwise would not help anyone. There are real options, and planning has to be specific rather than hopeful.