India, Nov. 10 -- We all have that one friend who wants to travel everywhere. Machu Picchu? Booked. The Amazon? Packed. A random town in Peru that is closer to the sky than to sea level? They would say, "That sounds amazing." Only, it is not. Or at least, not in the way Instagram makes 'amazing' look. Also read | No red light, no green light, just hand signals: Thimphu is the only capital city on Earth that has no traffic lights at all

Welcome to La Rinconada, Peru - known as the highest permanent settlement on Earth, a place where the air is thin, the toilets basically don't exist, but around 50,000 people live there anyway; reportedly for gold.

In a 2019 article, NASA's Science Mission called La Rinconada 'the highest settlement in th...