Bolivia is a place of beauty and quiet with magnificent salt flats for travellers to explore

With travel more ubiquitousthan ever before in history, the very idea of it has changed forever. Today, travel is a click of a button. Travellers book journeys online, they watch videos of where they're going to have a preview and they read endless reviews and assessments by a giant growing community of people stretching themselves to the edges of the planet and potentially off the edges of this world and into space.

However, this need to see the world, to see all of it, is about the deep desire to find something beyond ourselves. Sophisticated and in-the-know travellers are now, more than ever, seeking out places that are not on these lists, are more inaccessible and have some sustainability aspect to it - and therefore wondrous and special. Andreas Keller, a Cape Town-based sustainability professional, calls these almost untouched wilderness areas "teachers". He believes that nature, in her precious unspoiled beauty, speaks loudest. "Wildernesses are places where people can and should go to heal from the separation most of us feel from nature, often without knowing it."

Enter Bolivia and its absolute privilege of access. Although the landlocked country, the poorest in South America, has averaged a 4.8 per cent growth in the past few years according to the World Bank, much of the country is largely undiscovered.