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- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
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Tupiza Slideshow
Tupiza
Travel Blogs from Tupiza, Bolivia
Horse riding and dynamite in the outback
We took a 9 hour bus to get here and it turned out to be our worst yet. With only around 8% of Bolivias roads paved, we where on none of them and it was a very bumby ride across mountain plains with the bus over run with local people from the small ...
Wild wild west!
I arrived back around 7pm after my Salt Flats tour and as I walked in I saw Jared, a friend I had made in La Paz, which was nice. So we made a time to have dinner. After a much needed shower and a quick look at facebook! How did we survive without ...
Hola from 18,000 Feet Up!
... of Smokes...$0.75 4 Hour Bus Ride...$1.25 Ice Cream............$0.15 We head out tomorrow to do a 4 day trip of Southwest Bolivia. Lakes of all different colors (yellow, pink, green, red), geysers, incredibly rock formations, flamingos everywhere, ...
Salt flats - 3 days in a jeep....quite interesting
We decided to get a bus from Potosi to Tupiza so we bought tickets the night before at the bus station. However the next day the lady who had sold us the tickets was saying somthing to us in spannish (of which on of us had a clue what she was on about) ...
Breathtaking Bolivia
... border and headed towards Tupiza (16th). From here I started my 4 day 4WD (17th/18th/19th) Southwest Circuit tour of Bolivia which included the worlds largest salt plain - a staggering 10500km squared. Throughout the four days I was at altitude of ...
Thumbs up for Tupiza
... the same name was also filmed in the nearby desert.We spent a day checking out the town and adjusting to the altitude... again. Bolivia is a world away from Argentina: The roads are almost all dirt, the buildings made from mud bricks, there are very few ...
Boring Towns
... 'musica maestro!', this would prove to be an interesting bus journey. Wednesday 28th: We arrived after 6 hours at 3am in Tupiza, defintely less cold! A nice taximan pointed us in the right direction for the hostal we were looking for so we walked along ...
where Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid last robbed..
... ;li a všichni Izraelci, které jsme tu potkali, se zdáli být fajn lidi. EN: The Journey to Tupiza, a city in south Bolivia in full of color rocks and giant cactus, took from Uyuni through beautiful countryside approximately 8 hours. Tupiza is not ...
Start of Salar de Uyuni 4 day tour
... on the Salar de Uyuni 4 day tour. We met our guide, Cristobal and our cook, Noria and loaded up the 4x4 and headed out of Tupiza. We climbed from 2950m to over 4000m on the first day. We had lunch in a little shop in the middle of nowhere and bought all ...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
... 24 hours after departing Sucre. For those of you who know the story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tupiza and the surrounding area of Bolivia is where they spent their last days before meeting their demise in the mining town of San Vicente in the ...
Arrivee en Bolivie
Nous voila arrives en Bolivie, pays vraiment tres differents. Ici tout est desorganise, tout se passe dans la rue, ca grouille de partout. Bref on est vraiment depayses et c'est pas pour nous deplaire. La ville n'est pas tres jolie (sauf 1 ou 2 ...
Easing Into Bolivia
I crossed the border into Bolivia with some trepidation, Argentina had been so great and I had a feeling Bolivia would find Argentina a tough act to follow. The difference between the two countries was quite noticable, it was like stepping back in ...
Empathy and Psychopathy
... town. I wanted to do horseback riding in Chile, but it was a little expensive, so I told myself I'd wait until I was in Bolivia, where I was sure it was cheaper - and indeed it was. The only problem was that my horse looked emaciated and sad. ...
The Bolivian wild, wild west
14th Jan cont. We arrived into Tupiza at around 1.30pm and headed to the hostel we booked (La Torre) and checked in one of the two rooms we were offered. We chose the ground floor, a) because it wasn't as far to carry the bags and b) it had more ...
Cowboys and canyons
... 't ridden a horse since I was a kid but it´s easy enough to canter along the canyons and rock formations that surround Tupiza. Occasionally when the horses gallop it can be downright frightening (we didn´t have helmets only cowboy hats) and the fact ...
Hola from the Desert-
... spotting at night and we also went on a walk to find anacondas of which we found one. We are now in Tupiza at the south of Bolivia hoping to cross the border tomorrow into Argentina. Getting here was a bit of a marathon as we caught an overnight bus ...
Took the train to Tupiza
Once Liam was well enough we took the bus to Oruro and then the train to Tupiza, a town in the south. We are going to do our tour of the salt flats from here, and also we hope a bit of horse riding. As Salmonella is pretty infectious, we´ve got ...
Yeeeeee Haaaaaaa!
Tupiza is the wild west of the south! Butch Casidy and the sundance kid where filmed/based here.. Anwyay got here after a very cold and bumpy ride in a bus that was built like a tank with huge wheels (I guess as we where pretty much going directly accross ...
day 10- tupiza
... wine, 3 pizzas (including one with peaches, raisons, mangos), 1 dessert (none for me thanks). Feeling great about adventures in Bolivia altough I am realizing I won´t have time for the jungle here. Bolivia is striking so far, not just b/c of the surreal ...
Un vrai dimanche à se reposer
Après le salar et les nombreuses heures de piste en 4x4 et bus, je suis arrivée totalement kaput à Tupiza. Du coup, repos. Et pas n'importe où ! Dans un hôtel avec piscine, tv, internet, buffet pour le petit dej...A 6 euros la nuit, c'est vraiment ...
Shopping...
... to pick up sum warm clothes for our jeep tour across the salt flats. After shopping we headed across town to Tupiza Tours, the most well known tour company in Tupiza. A very friendly, english speaking local girl helped us book our tour leaving ...
A perfect day alone
... could find to book online (we preferred to book in advance as we didn't know how late we'd be arriving) was a relatively pricey (for bolivia) hotel but we decided to splash out and booked a twin room for 15 quid a night(between us). It was a bargain- ...
Raindrops keep falling on my head
... and Sundance. The story goes that after travelling and trying to settle in western Argentina, Butch and Sundance mad etheir way to Bolivia where they robbed one last bank in Huaca Huañusca, they were finally caught and died in San Vicente, a little ...
Red Rocks!
... was also made worse by it being the Argentinian summer holiday and it appeared half of its youth had sopped across to Bolivia for a cheap holiday. Luckily though we realised that the town inhabitants had simply moved their town a few blocks along and ...
Bienvenue en Bolivie!
... moments. Un point positif par contre, tout est nettement moins cher qu'en Argentine et qu'au Chili! Autrement, Tupiza est plutôt tranquille est il est possible d'y passer quelques jours sans s'ennuyer. J'en ai profiter pour faire de ...
The wild wild south
... the salt flats and deserts in the south, they have very little in the way of arable land. Two minutes across the Argentina/Bolivia border stretches miles and miles of flat grassy fields...cow country. It seems a little unfair. They also have better ...
Tupiza - Bolivian outback
... full attention of our guides. We loved the day with a great view from our mountainbike-start-point, seeing a lot of the vegetation and also many lamas enroute. Next is already our bolivia-highlight: 4 day 3 night Jeep tour to the famous uyuni-salt-flats. ...
Tupiza
Our first destination in Bolivia and a fantastic place to start - Tupiza looks exactly like a town from a Western film with rainbow coloured mountains, cacti and cowboys (George in a silly hat). In Tupiza we enjoyed touring the surrounding countryside by ...