Tiwanaku La Paz

Today we are taking a day trip to the pre-incan ruins of Tiwanaku. This site was founded around 200 BC and after many years it grew from a small village to much larger city with population estimated anywhere between 200,000 to 1.4 million inhabitants in the period around 600 to 800 AD. At its peak Tiwanaku was the most important city and …

We made it successfully from Uyuni to La Paz and there was only 3 hours of bumpy dirt roads out of the 10 hour bus ride to put up with! It was quite incredible how much the bus shook around during those first 3 hours, and I'm glad I wasn't having to drive over it with the suspension in my car.

After some initial confusion over whether we …

Well this is our last day of the tour. We visited Tiwanaku museum which gave you the history of the site, various ceramics of the Pre Inca empire approx 1500BC.

The original Pachamama Monolith (Mother-Earth) statue was inside the museum, a replica was outside on the site.

I just came back from an incredible week in La Paz, the working capital of Bolivia, and highest capital in the world. We arrived on a buscama (bus bed) at 5 AM, and stumbled into the hostel my partner in crime, Charity, and I had found before. After sleeping off the rough ride for a few hours, we boldly ventured forth into this incredible city.

With Jorgen sick in bed it was up to Maria to discover the ancient but so important site of Tiwanaku (or Tihuanaku). Historically this site is dated before the time of the Incas and it seems again that those profited from the developments of earlier cultures. However, the excavation on that historical site will discover much more in the next years …

... be our final day in La Paz, as a precursor to our trek to Machu Picchu we decided to take a trip to Tiwanaku, Bolivia's most important and impressive archeological site located 72km outside La Paz on the southern shores of Lake Titicaca. The civilisation ...

... steep streets towards El Alto (one of the poorest neighbourhoods in La Paz Andrew Edit – Its actually another city to La Paz) and stopped for a photo opportunity at a view point overlooking the whole of La Paz.  The guide had handed out a few ...

... recognised something that was in the wrong direction from the cementary. I shouted after the conductor "This is near Miraflores", a district of La Paz. "Yes" he replied "But I want to go to the Cementary" "Your best getting out and crossing the road ...

Greetings from La Paz, Bolivia - one of South America's most interesting cities, and at 12,000 feet it is the highest capital city in the world.  (The highest city in the world is Potosi, Bolivia - I'm going there next week.) La Paz is ...

... finally ended up at a really cool Contemporary Art Museum and then walked over to see a recreation of the most important Tiwanaku ruin in Bolivia, featuring their main relic of `The Sun Gate`.  The Tiwanaku`s were pre-Incan descendants and one of ...

... caffeine). The mis-information theme continued today as we toured the Pre-Inca ruins of Tiwanaku (1.5 hours outside of La Paz). The Tiwanaku (like the Incas that followed) practiced the art of skull deformation. Our guide told us they did this to ...

... . Huayna Potosi is a mountain in the Cordillera Real (Royal mountain range) and is easily accessible from La Paz. After speaking with our Aymara guide at Tiwanaku, she said that it was best to make an offering before climbing which Taj did the ...

... we walked across the actual border we were accompanied by a marching band, I donīt think everyone gets this service! On the way to La Paz we called in at Copacabana (The place where the famous Copacabana is named after). It was a pretty little port but ...

... be wrong however, since officially the capital of Bolivia is actually Sucre. Never let it be said that my blog isn't educational! La Paz is still pretty darn high. Coming from the salt plains however, the altitude is a welcome relief! During my stay ...

... have seen two peaceful marches protesting various things including making Sucre the actual capital. Sucre is the historical capital, but La Paz is the legislative and judicial capital, where congress meets and the President resides. La Pazeņos want to ...