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
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. ...
Cancelled!
This is a top pick! ... city was Illimani mountain, sitting at 6402 meters above sea level. One of the things we really wanted to do, just outside of La Paz, was a mountain bike ride down the "World's Most Dangerous Road". There are a lot of companies offering the ride, so we ...
Another day in the capital
This is a top pick! ... bus station to get some info on buses to Copacabana on Lake Titticaca. The hostel was trying to charge 110 BOB's each to go from La Paz to Copacabana tomorrow and the Copacabana to Puno on Sunday. At the bus station it was 50 BOB's each - no brainer ...
Worlds Most Dangerous Road... on a bike...SMASH!!!
This is a top pick! ... . Andrew even got a cuddle from a Spider monkey which took a shine to his beard (check out the video). The journey back to La Paz (driving in the bus along Death Road) took 3 1/2 hours by which stage my arse had started to hurt and the bus was ...
Dangerous living at the top of the world...
This is a top pick! ... rather fix the problem in your own back yard", thus one of the reasons for all the political conflict between Bolivia and the West. Coca chewing aside, La Paz certainly did have a lot to keep us busy but we decided to spend Christmas in the Salar ...
Marcel in La Paz
This is a top pick! Marcel at some typical spots of La Paz. More to be added the next ...
The Inca Trail (Peru and Bolivia)
This is a top pick! ... out of Sorata for the fun ride back to La Paz. The bus was packed with lots of people standing. In El Alto, a poor suburb of La Paz, there were people all lined up with their [bbq size] propane tanks blocking the road. I'm not sure if this was some sort ...
Keeping the peace
This is a top pick! ... of dust that was constantly pouring in preventing any decent breath of air, it was horrible and would recomened the train which goes halfway to La Paz to avoid this experience.. The bus pulls into La Paz along a road with a great view of the city, passing ...
La Paz
This is a top pick! ... canyon´s lip. There is a massive urban sprawl inbetween the sides of the canyon. There wasn´t a lot that I really wanted to see in La Paz except that I heard it was in a remarkable location. However the main goal for the La Paz was to hit the road form ...
Biking the World's Most Dangerous Road to Coroico
This is a top pick! ... get to being on an alien planet without leaving Earth. Bolivia is just full of surprises. Quantifiable Summary Bus to La Paz (3.5 hours, 15bs/$2, 1 ferry crossing for 1.5bs) Night at Hostal Milenio (25bs/$3) Biking down World's Most Dangerous Road ...
End of Tour
This is a top pick! ... accommodating than the Europeans, and South America continues to emerge as my favourite (and must return) continent. I have 3 nights in La Paz before flying to Santiago on Friday. La Paz is extraordinarily cheap and poor... reminiscent of my time in ...
One hell of a bus ride II
This is a top pick! ... with us and we managed to get to our hostel, which our little travelling group had booked for us... well done them!! The approach to La Paz was pretty amazing... You come up to the top of a hill and are faced with a gigantic crater, filled in with a ...
The Lazy Thin Air of La Paz
This is a top pick! ... visit the recently famous San Pedro Prison, yes thats right, a real prison!!! San Pedro prison, the biggest in Bolivia's main city, La Paz, is home to about 1,500 inmates, most of them murderers and rapists. An undercover BBC reporter recently visited ...
Danger? I Laugh in the Face of Danger!
This is a top pick! ... like getting back on a horse). The road is called the death road because this narrow, bumpy dirt road, the only way to get from La Paz to Corico, averages about one car or truck a week off the edge. The edge is a vertical drop of at least 100 meters, ...
The Highest Capital in the world
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Valley of the moon - La Paz
This is a top pick! 29.1.10 There are market stalls everywhere in La Paz. It seems you can get everything except a Bolivian sticker for your vehicle and a street map. There are many poor people begging in the streets with their children. The many food stalls are well ...
Altitude sickness
This is a top pick! ... had no boom gate. So I stopped by the booth and the uniformed guard asked me a question and I smiled and said "From Australia, going to La Paz". “Ah, si, si” he said. I said “OK?” and he said “Si” and indicated that I ...
La Paz
This is a top pick! ... all manner of weird and wonderful items from love potions to preserved animal carcasses! That evening we decided to dine at La Paz's reputedly best international restaurant. As we rounded the corner of the street and spotted the doorman at the very ...
A Brighter Side of Bolivia
This is a top pick! ... stretching for miles over the barren highlands. Later in the week we decided it was time to head north towards La Paz - the administrative capital of Bolivia, and reputedly the highest capital city in the world at about 13,000 ft. On our way through ...
The highest Capital City in the world... SMASH!!!
This is a top pick! ... form a stunning landscape with a beautiful mountain backdrop. Next we were driven through one of the more salubrious neighbourhoods of La Paz where houses can cost over $300,000 US lots of them were on private estates and the shopping district was ...
Injury, Illness & NY Fireworks.
This is a top pick! ... street stall, we break open a bottle of wine and settle in. What a blast, come 12pm it would appear that absolutely every citizen of La Paz had fire works to light. The city was ablaze with noise and colour. Fantastic. So what else can happen?? We wake up ...
La Paz:Dried Llama Fetuses & Screaming Down a Road
This is a top pick! ... pro-Evo T-shirts and went to the Presidential Palace. We were hooked up with a tour - along with about 6 other teenagers from La Paz - through to his conference rooms, sat in his big chairs, saw the first map of Bolivia, and a sword used by Sucre ...
Cycling down the World´s most dangerous road
This is a top pick! ... the edge of the cliff. Thanks be to God I was too busy concentrating to start gazing around on the hill. It was one hell of a dangerous sight. If you ever find yourself in La Paz with a day to kill don´t leave without doing this. Absolutely ...
Altitude!
This is a top pick! ... either. And finally have you ever been anoyed by someone saying "Can I borrow your mobile...I won´t be a second". Well in La Paz they have the antidote to the mobile phone scroungers....some dude who walks around with his mobile chained to his hand ...
Downhill all the way.....
This is a top pick! ... usual! We got to the asphalt bit before dark and I started to relax but couldnt sleep despite being very tired. We arrived into La Paz at about 7ish and proceeded to get stuck in traffic jams for ages before arriving home. Jen and Jonno our fellow ...
Huge city in a canyon!
This is a top pick! ... shoddy, dusty town, but it is on Lake Titicacaca and is bustling with vendors and people so we liked it. The journey onto La Paz was pleasant enough, and shorter than we expected (as usual the bus driver obviously thought he was on a formula one ...
Dangerous Roads, Jails, 5th Wheelin and Planning
This is a top pick! ... in the ####... oh well. Anyone who has read a book called "Marching Powder" about the infamous San Pedro prison in La Paz will understand the following - those who havent will think i am a little crazy. Basically inmates in San Pedro have ...
A bumpy ride to La Paz
This is a top pick! When we arrived at La Paz bus terminal, it was only about a 5 minute walk to our hostel - The Adventure Brew. First impressions is that it's a nice place. Our room wasn't going to be ready until about 12.30pm, but to be fair, we didn't really have that ...