Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
Bolivia Slideshow
Bolivia
Travel Blogs from Bolivia
La paz...again, goodbye motos!
This is a top pick! It was 383km to La Paz, the longest distance we had done in one day but tarmac 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 ...
Highest town in the world
This is a top pick! ... by a polishing and then painting of the black soles. Johns 10 year old boots look almost brand new afterwards. My first impressions Bolivia reminds me of some of the small towns that we visitd in China. Ladies sell almost everything by the market: ...
Can you pass the salt please?
This is a top pick! ... Basin or Salar de Uyuni. We ended up going on an adventurous trip to Rurrenabaque, but since that day I knew I would come back to Bolivia in order to visit Salar de Uyuni. And now I'm here!! I have signed up on a three days jeep adventure with Cordillera ...
The Salt Times
This is a top pick! Onwards and up to our next destination, Uyuni. The gateway town to the Bolivian salt flats, an ancient ocean now dried up forming the largest salt flat in the world at 4,085 square miles (10,582 square km). We drove out for a day trip, ...
Uyuni Salt Flats
This is a top pick! The Uyuni Salar is the largest salt flat in the world and one of the most bizare places on the planet. It's 4,000 square miles of perfectly flat white salt at 12,000 feet above sea level and surrounded by ...
Parties and Political Unreset
This is a top pick! ... and Sucre is the capital of the Spanish lowlands. The current president, Evo Morales, is the first indigenous president in Bolivia's history and he's making changes that the European-Bolivians are not happy with - and there are protests in the ...
It's all as plain as Salt.
This is a top pick! ... , the Salar de Uyuni, and we had made it... on bikes! Basically, 40000 to 25000 years ago much of south west bolivia was a lake which dried up to leave two smaller lakes and two major salt concentrations, the lagest being the Salar de Uyuni. It ...
Jeep Jeep
This is a top pick! ... , two Mexicans, two Canadians, a Fin and a Brit (me!)? A very squashed but spectacular trip through the south west corner of Bolivia! I got the train to Tupiza from Villazon, where I bumped into John and Jim from Canada, and Kathina from Finland, who ...
Mountain Biking the Road of Death - La Paz
This is a top pick! ... 100 lives in a matter of seconds... well, maybe minutes depending on which drop they fell off. Two years ago, Bolivia opened a proper 2-lane highway to handle all of the traffic and in the process, created one of ...
The Dust, Dirt and Dogs of Uyuni
This is a top pick! ... the trains stopped running here because all the coal was supplied by Chile, and after an argument with them they stopped supplying Bolivia with coal. We have found that most South American countries have problems with Chile! Bit like the France of South ...
Train Cemetery
This is a top pick! Our final stop was the Train Cemetery - an old train junkyard out in the desert and a very cool playground. I wish I had one of these around when I was a kid! ...
The Highest Capital City in the World
This is a top pick! ... on all sides, dotted red by the brick homes that house the poor, and that lead up to the high planes and Bolivia's poorest city, El Alto. Most residents there don't even have running water, sanitation, or electricy. And considering it's extemely cold ...
The Long and Winding Road - The PanPipe Remix
This is a top pick! Back in 1995 one of those international development banks described the road from La Paz to Coroico as the 'most dangerous in the world' - not including those in Iraq, presumably. This was based on the high number of cars and buses that would fall off ...
Mindblowing Bolivia
This is a top pick! I signed up for a 3 day tour from San Pedro in Chile to Uyuni in Bolivia for $80 USD all inclusive. There are quit a few companies that offer a very similar thing, but I would recommend the company I went with (Estrella del Sur) because I think our food ...
Lady E out drinks every man at the dinner table
This is a top pick! ... how difficult it was to breathe. We were a bit at a loss what to do so we went into the hut and got stamped into Bolivia. All of a sudden a few 4WD Land cruisers rolled up. We had bumped into Kieron from Ireland who we met in Salta so we decided to head ...
Salt Flats of the Devil of the Death from Hell...
This is a top pick! ... Spanish, French, Danish and New Zealandish comprising our tour group. "Huh?" The Land Cruiser bounced along the dusty roads of Bolivia's south west, close inspection revealing it to be a Toyosa model, rather than the better known Toyota. I try and ...
Crisis in Copacabana
This is a top pick! Hi all, From Peru we took a bus to the Bolivian border and our first destination was Copacabana (like the song). Once again, we are glad that we are not Americans as the ‘reciprocal’ visa fees to enter each country in South America are over a ...
They taught the Inca’s a thing or two
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Climbing Huayna Potosi (20k feet)
This is a top pick! ... Israelis who just finished their military service and were traveling for a year, and two British medical students who were working in Bolivia. The dodgiest part of the first day was having to walk about 1000 feet across a dam ...
We got him, boys!!!!
This is a top pick! NEWS EXCLUSIVE BIN IN BOLIVIA WOULD you Adam and eve it! Today while we were walking through Copacabana town centre we took this amazing snap of what can only be the FBI's number 1 most wanted criminal, sitting in a Bolivian town ...
The salt of the earth
This is a top pick! After a gorgeous train journey THROUGH bird infested lago Poopo and the desolate plains of south Bolivia it was time for us to understand the REAL meaning of COLD!!!. At 3675m the freezing cold Middle-of-nowhere town of Uyuni is the jump off point for ...
Copacabana, Isla del Sol, La Paz
This is a top pick! ... , it's probably best to say you don't speak any Spanish, then they will probably see you as being too much work. Bolivia We walk over a surprisingly calm border crossing, get our Bolivian entry stamp, and get a taxi to Copacabana, a small Bolivian ...
San Pedro - Uyuni
This is a top pick! ... in that village and continued on travelling by jeep to our next destination. We stopped in a really dead town in the afternoon. The train from Bolivia to Chile runs through it a number of times a week. We met some of the local kids who were full of fun. ...
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 ...
Waters of life
This is a top pick! So, after surviving The World's Most Dangerous Road, what's next? In the course of our travels, we'd met several people who told us about the Pampas of Rio Yacumi, a lowland wetland area near Rurrenabaque in Bolivia´s northern Beni Department. ...
Her name was Lola she was a showgirl ...
This is a top pick! ... Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) is an island in the southern part of Lake Titicaca. It is part of the modern State of Bolivia and is part of the La Paz Department. Geographically, the terrain is harsh; it is a rocky, hilly island. There are no motor ...
Sweating In Santa Cruz
This is a top pick! ... from the rest of Bolivia. Its green, tropical and hot, unlike the dusty, dirty, dry and disgusting rest of Bolivia. Probably because it prides itself in being more Brazilian than Bolivian (good times ahead then!). Thanks to the warm and tropical ...
Uyuni salt flats tour!
This is a top pick! ... at soem crazy rock formations, made from this dusty red rock.....with a view of a volcanoe in the distance (half the volcanoe in Bolivia, half in Chille). Next a laguna lunch and a lonely flamingo to watch. After a couple more lakes, a bunch more ...
Andrew gets a yank from a Cholita who wrestles....
This is a top pick! We got up relatively early this morning, had breakfast in the hostel (bread, jam and coffee) and then went down to the travel agent at the bottom of the street to book a tour to Tiwanaku the pre-Incan ruins and also tickets to Cholitas Wrestling. We were ...
Salar de Uyuni
This is a top pick! ... and the incident with our drunk guide in Salar de Uyuni just about finished us off. However, not to leave Bolivia on a totally negative note, it's the country with the highest indigenous population in South America, which makes it more ...