Things to See and Do in La Paz
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- Apr 30, 2007: ... type. And, of course, she´s Canadian.
Before leaving for Death Road, she asks ¨Ummm, can I still buy some Gatorade. ...
- May 8, 2007: ... than I actually am, I cleverly left out a fact about Bolivia´s Death Road. While it´s still a deathtrap, vehicles don´t ...
- Jul 1, 2008: ... 13 years (obviously too cocky and confident) decided to take the death road back in the jeep to save us half our..... he ...
- Aug 28, 2008: ... World's Most Dangerous Road, affectionately known as "The Death Road."
The WMDR is basically a one-lane dirt ...
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- Mar 26, 2006: ... I shouted after the conductor "This is near Miraflores", a district of La Paz.
"Yes" he replied
"But I want to go to the ...
- Mar 27, 2008: ... walked over to see a recreation of the most important Tiwanaku ruin in Bolivia, featuring their main relic of `The Sun Gate ...
- Aug 26, 2008: Greetings from La Paz, Bolivia - one of South America's most interesting cities, and at 12,000 feet it is the highest ...
- Apr 23, 2006: ... Pre-Inca ruins of Tiwanaku (1.5 hours outside of La Paz). The Tiwanaku (like the Incas that followed) practiced the art of ...
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- Apr 14, 2007: ... needs of tourists coming to see the nearby Madidi National Park jungle or take a pampas tours.
Remember Madidi National ...
- Jul 1, 2008: ... small indigenous communities that still live in the Madidi National Park area. I think that foreigners have helped them to ...
- Jul 10, 2006: ... what I got up to in the mighty jungle.
The Madidi National Park is one the world's biodiveristy hotspots: everywhere you ...
- May 1, 2007: ... rainforest so we booked a tour to an ecolodge in Madidi National Park. We spent the rest of the day checking out more ...
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- Oct 14, 2005: ... where to go). I wandered the town visiting Plaza San Francisco, Plaza Murillo and the backpacker area around Sagarnaga. The ...
- Apr 4, 2004: ... frequently left gasping for air.
As we wandered around the Plaza Murillo area, which is home to the National Congress, ...
- Nov 18, 2004: ... a modern city with few colonial buildings left except around Plaza Murillo, which at 3636 meter above sea level, marks the ...
- Jul 16, 2009: ... and beautiful architecture. We first visited the Cathedral in Plaza Murillo which had some beautiful stained glass windows. & ...
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- Oct 24, 2006: ... La Paz we just wandered around town, went into the Iglesia de San Francisco and walked to the San Pedro Prison. Overlooking ...
- Jan 27, 2007: ... tour. We started at Plaza San Francisco where Iglesia de San Francisco stands. We then headed up Sagarnaga ...
- Oct 23, 2006: ... the president!), the Mercado Negro (black market) and the Iglesia de San Francisco and the beautiful church of the same name ...
- Sep 16, 2008: ...
Plaza Murillo
Cathedral Murillo
Presidential Palace
Iglesia de San Francisco
Metropolitan Cathedral
The Congress ...
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- Aug 11, 2006: ... of a different kind: black as in black magic. The Witches Market in La Paz is a block and a half away from my hostel. There ...
- Aug 20, 2005: ... have missed since Central America.
The highlight of La Paz has to be the Witches market, where you can buy anything from ...
- Jul 8, 2005: ... )
First thing we checked out in this glorious city was the Witches' market. For real. The Witches' market! Any amulet, ...
- Sep 17, 2008: ... a couple of hours of quality people watching..heee..
The famous Witches market was just up from our hotel and is also a ...
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- Apr 21, 2007: ... the whole "Shopping" experience.
A whistlestop tour of the Museo de Coca began the evening with the education of how and why ...
- Jun 23, 2007: ... Sam's hand and run.
We walked to the museo de coca (coca museum). Lots of interesting facts on the coca leaf ...
- Sep 28, 2009: ... took it all in. We visited the art museum and the museo de coca - and learnt loads about coca, just after trying our first ...
- May 4, 2008: ... of one giant street market. We stumbled across the 'Museo de coca' hidden between the many handicraft stalls. This ...
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- May 16, 2005: ... ago, has the best bikes and a great safety record - Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking. We left on a Saturday morning and were ...
- Aug 26, 2006: ... the trip, which was organized by Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking - I'd definitely recommend them over other companies - ...
- Oct 19, 2007: ... (around 8 USD) for a dorm with a bathroom,
Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking, 55 USD for a basic package, 75USD for an ...
- Apr 22, 2006: ... Dangerous Road trip. We decided to go with Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking, because they were highly recommended by lonely ...
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- Apr 4, 2004: ... a bus which took us back up the road to the Valle de la Luna. This is a superb spectacle of bizarrely eroded rock pinnacles ...
- Jul 25, 2005: ... of everywhere else! (Bit of Trivia from Shirley there!) The Valle de la Luna was a bit mad really...lots of bizarre rock ...
- Feb 27, 2005: ... dann gingen wir erstmal schlafen.
hier besuchten wir das valle de la luna und den berg chakaltaya wo wir auf knapp 5500m ...
- Feb 28, 2005: ... dann gingen wir erstmal schlafen.
hier besuchten wir das valle de la luna und den berg chakaltaya wo wir auf knapp 5500m ...
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- Sep 24, 2004: ... Spanish-colonial looking. The military marched out of the Presidential Palace at 6pm to take down the national and regional ...
- Apr 4, 2004: ... Murillo area, which is home to the National Congress, Presidential Palace and cathedral, we couldn't help but notice, with a ...
- Mar 27, 2008: ... We put on our finest pro-Evo T-shirts and went to the Presidential Palace. We were hooked up with a tour - along with ...
- Apr 23, 2006: ... victims. In 1946, for example, the people stormed the Presidential Palace, dragged the President out of his home, and hung ...
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- Feb 6, 2005: ...
So then we were planning on hiking to the top of La Muela del Diablo (The Devil's Molar), but when we took the bus back ...
- Feb 16, 2009: ... !!!!! Drove up to the Muela del Diablo (Devil's mouth), a famous jutting mountain surrounding La Paz (although to be honest, ...
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- May 2, 2005: ... I enjoy its energy. I went to the Museum of Musical Instruments of Bolivia, which was wonderful. There were guitars, harps ...
- Dec 3, 2004: ... as they come into the final stretch.
I visited the museum of musical instruments, which was very good, including not only ...
- Jul 15, 2008: ... , we stopped for tea and then made our way to the Museum of Musical Instruments where we plucked and banged a whole host of ...
- Jul 22, 2007: ... met their ends in the making. The other museum was a private museum of musical instruments. Even if you think you don't care ...
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- Oct 24, 2008: ... as well. We then took a tour through the national museum of art and culture, somewhat wasted on the likes of me, but I ...
- Oct 16, 2008: ... Bolivia is still so poor. Then went to the National Museum of Art. It was mainly religious art but there was an ...