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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.
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.
The Ruta de las Flores links a string of highland coffee towns in western El Salvador. It is a drive rather than a site, and it is the easiest good day in the country.
Suchitoto is the best preserved colonial town in El Salvador and a center of the country's cultural life. It is not a World Heritage Site, and it does not need to be.
Joya de Ceren was buried by volcanic ash around 1,400 years ago and preserved as it was left. It is the one property El Salvador has on the World Heritage List, and what it preserves is ordinary life rather than monumental architecture.
Leon holds one of the two Nicaraguan properties on the World Heritage List. The other one is also called Leon, lies 30 km away and was abandoned four centuries ago, and confusing them is the easiest mistake to make here.
Granada is the most photographed city in Nicaragua and the one most often described as a World Heritage Site. It is not one. It is on the Tentative List, and the distinction is worth getting right.
The Caribbean coast is culturally a separate country from the Pacific side, with Creole English, Miskito and Garifuna heritage and a history that never ran through Granada or Leon.
Potosi was for a time one of the largest and richest cities on earth, and the reason was the mountain above it. Understanding what was taken out of Cerro Rico, and who was made to take it, is the point of going.
Lake Titicaca is high, vast and cold, and it is the center of Andean origin tradition rather than a scenic lake with a story attached. Isla del Sol is where that tradition is anchored.