Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
La Paz Slideshow
Travel Blogs from La Paz, Bolivia
Retracing our tyre tracks
This is a top pick! ... had made looking up at a sky full of stars and trees full of fire flies. We rode up the death road from Corrico to La Paz passing gringos on pushbikes speeding the other way looking very scared. It had been fun when we had gone down the road ourselves ...
La paz...again, goodbye motos!
This is a top pick! ... all the way, which at first was fun but soon became monotonous. We wanted our dirt roads back! It was a welcome sight to see La Paz in the distance; we had done it, all the bike problems, the tough weather and roads. The amazing scenery, sights and ...
Breathless
This is a top pick! ... should quell the water cravings until I make it down to the coast of Peru. After Sucre, which was a really beautiful, relaxed city, La Paz is kind of disappointing -there's no pretty gardens or squares, and there's not a lot to do beyond shopping and ...
Bolivia...the bargain basement of South America
This is a top pick! ... to get off and pay to sail across in a little boat, but the locals got to stay on the bus! Wierd but wonderful La Paz Bolivia is a weird place, a place where after a while the out of the ordinary is taken for granted. Its capital, La Paz is ...
Still loving La Paz
This is a top pick! ... the afternoon wandering the city which has some lovely old churches and plazas. Stills very European which is a bit odd really! Bolivia on the whole does feel a bit more different from other countries with people wearing local dress e.g. bowler hats ...
City In A Bowl
This is a top pick! ... up front requested her own photo and bathroom stops. Approaching urban areas in developing countries is always painfully slow, and La Paz was no exception. Traffic chaos resulting from a combination of lawlessness and me-first attitudes choked our ...
Downtime in La Paz, Bolivia
This is a top pick! Day 24 January 27th - I arrived in La Paz earlier than expected. The bus circled the outer rim of the city and slowly descended down a steep slope, the view of the city at night was exciting, just a shame my camera could not record what I could see. ...
Mountain Biking the Road of Death - La Paz
This is a top pick! After spending a couple days finding my way around La Paz, I signed up to mountain bike down the World's Most Dangerous Road, affectionately known as "The Death Road." The WMDR is basically a one-lane dirt track that starts at 15,400 feet ...
The Highest Capital City in the World
This is a top pick! ... eh? I also suggested a name for the new hostel bar... "Altitude Anonymous" , but I don't know if it will catch on. We'll see. La Paz is a cool place to walk around and watch Bolivian life go by. And that's what I've spent the last several days doing. Just ...
They taught the Inca’s a thing or two
This is a top pick! ... city on the outskirts of La Paz, a city that has dramatically increased in population (now standing at 1.2 million compared to La Paz’s 2 million) in recent years as an influx of people living in rural areas have converged on the Altiplano (El Alto ...
Climbing Huayna Potosi (20k feet)
This is a top pick! My next adventure was to climb Huayna Potosi, a 20,000 foot snow-capped mountain that towers over La Paz. Well, technically, it's 19,968 feet high - but there was a lot of snow on top of the peak, so we think we were at least 20,000 ...
Copacabana, Isla del Sol, La Paz
This is a top pick! ... Isla del Sol made a nice day trip, but it is nothing like the uniqueness of the Uros on the Peruvian side of the lake. La Paz, the Highest Capital City in the World From Copacabana, we take a bus to the capital La Paz. About midpoint in the ...
Back to hit the shops in LaPaz
This is a top pick! 10am and we said bye to Cynthia and the group and headed back to the airport for the quick flight to LaPaz. We'd left all our luggage at the hotel and were travelling just with an overnighter so all was easy. It was good ...
Andrew gets a yank from a Cholita who wrestles....
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Carnival Chaos
This is a top pick! ... Temperature : 10 degrees Weather : Cold and cloudy with some sunny spells We have spent five whole days in the dizzying heights of La Paz doing absolutely sod all…it's been great! We've been so exhausted with all the activity of the past few ...
La Paz
This is a top pick! ... been given some fairly common sense advice (don't walk down dodgy streets, keep and eye on your belongings etc). Not very exciting really! La Paz seemed a nice enough city in the short time we had there, that said I don't feel like I have missed a ...
Mustard tricks in the cool bowl.
This is a top pick! ... for a few days, although it's pretty chaotic and always full of people. Anyway, chill I do... I join up with Karla, a local from La Paz I knew from earlier, and she shows me the city for real. From poor suburbs to the more ritzy areas. And then I mean ...
La Paz.....are we ever gonna leave?
This is a top pick! ok sorry everyone, i know we ve been very slack in doing the blog but for the last month we have been here in la paz. i would never have believed we would have stayed for so long but we had become completely nocturnal and regressed to our student days. ...
This Is Just Regular Sausage Right?
This is a top pick! ... and the rest of the passengers climbed aboard. We definitely recommend the train as a much more comfortable way to travel between La Paz and Uyuni. Arriving in Orouro at about 10AM we headed to the bus station for some breakfast with some fellow ...
Twelve Months Baby!
This is a top pick! ... you remembered us today and realised we were mostly thinking of you guys! Aside from this we took the bus from Copacabana to La Paz in Bolivia, which included a boat ride across Lake Titicaca at San Pablo de Tiquina (the bus went on a barge) where we ...
A Bus Tour Through La Paz
This is a top pick! ... welcome after we showed up 3 nights in a row. They simply seemed to be annoyed with our presence. But then we went to a bar called La Luna. It's locked up tight and you have to ring a bell to be let in or out. Very safe. We chatted the night away ...
La Paz Bolivia
This is a top pick! ... being grilled over the lack of an official ïnvite letter¨. Finally through paperwork - and no oxygen required, we headed to the hotel. La Paz is quite the republic... pretty different from Lima. We were able to head out to the market for a bite ...
An Amazonian Adventure
This is a top pick! ... sea before a massive shift in the Earth’s tectonic plates created the Andes and essentially land locked it). We arrived in La Paz and headed straight for the Amaszonas desk to book our flight straight to Rurrenabaque – what we hadn’t ...
Cycling on "Carretera de la Muerte" (Death Road)
This is a top pick! OK, this entry begins as a warning to anyone who wants to get their hair done in Bolivia... more speicifically, La Paz... Do it yourself! It's probably going to turn out more like what you wanted!!! I decided to use a hairdresser and dye my hair ...
Outside the prison... but wanting to be inside....
This is a top pick! ... . However we did catch a boat over to an island in the lake and enjoy the gorgeous scenery from the shore. So Im now in La Paz. A very cool, but very poor city high up in the mountains at around 3600m. The weather is gorgeous but its bloody freezing. I ...
La Paz, Las Rockas
This is a top pick! ... 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 to ...
Mountain Biking The World´s Most Dangerous Road
This is a top pick! ... It is fantastic!!! At the end of the ride, I spent a couple days in the pleasant little town of Coroico before returning to La Paz. For further reading and a rather grim article on one of the mountain bike fatalities on the Death Road, Click here Or ...
Her name wasn't Lola and she wasn't a showgirl
This is a top pick! ... firecrackers to wake all the stray dogs. Then I paid 75p for a nice big beer and sat in the sun. And so now I'm in La Paz, the highest capital city in the world. It's what you expect: pollution, noise, scam artists, and unfortunately a grotty hostel - ...
Big fry up then off to Sucre...with a bit of vomit
This is a top pick! ... . Good job we did as there were at least 4 more deposits through the night. Evidence of this can be found along the road from La Paz to Sucre, or down the side of the bus!! Not much sleep was had during the bus journey, lets hope Lorna makes a recovery ...
Into the Wild
This is a top pick! ... into thin air. Once the trip concluded, I joined four girls from our group who were also headed to La Paz. Initially I dreaded the idea of visiting another chaotic capital city and only planned to stay a few days. ...