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
A Walk around the city
This is a top pick! ... down the World's Most Dangerous Road. We are definitely going to do it, but will do it in March when we come back through La Paz as we have more time then. As it was approaching 2pm we decided to find a bit of lunch.....and there it was......glowing ...
La Paz
This is a top pick! Another short entry due to the fact we had food poisoning and spent much of our time in bed or on the toilet (sorry). La Paz is a crazy city. Never experienced such a polluted city before. OK, itīs lively and there are lots of markets but you need to ...
The long, cold but beautiful road to La Paz
This is a top pick! in 26 hours the bus brought me from Pisco, Peru to La Paz Bolivia. The bus had great seats, lots of space and great service, but when the heating broke at night and it started to actually freeze in the bus (we could see that from the ice formed on the ...
Partying in the highest city in the word
This is a top pick! ... should have left La Paz a day earlier to recover. Costs Private room in Wild Rover shared bathroom - Ģ13.80 Bottle of local rum - Ģ1.38 Bottle of local whisky - Ģ2.77 Bus from Cochabamba – La Paz - Ģ6 each Cost of a vindaloo curry - ...
Bus Journey, Civil Unrest and Bangers & Mash
This is a top pick! ... a minibus and got the driver to give us a lift to the Alto La Paz bus terminal where we could get a taxi to La Paz.....hopefully. The minibus took us round all the back streets to avoid the road block. This is where you start thinking of the mornings ...
Green rice, green beer & green shots - Paddy Day!
This is a top pick! Happy Paddy Day After our free pancake breakfast we decided to take a walk around the markets. I picked myself up a few bargains. Bought a digital watch for Ģ2 which has flashing techno lights on it - wicked! Also got myself a new pair of shades as ...
Glory hallelujah, my godchild Annelyn is born!
This is a top pick! Somewhere this morning, a beautiful baby girl was born. She s called Annelyn, weighs 3135 grams and is already 47.5 cm big. She s the daughter of my brother Hjalmar and his wife Karoline, grandchild of Balou and Mamatou (my parents, not their real ...
Bienvenidos a Bolivia!
This is a top pick! ... is the highest capital city in the world at 3800 metres) the steep streets made each wrong turn a mini marathon!! The stalls in La Paz featured such delicacies as dried llama foeteses for warding off evil spirits! When the day arrived for us to move on ...
High n Dry in Bolivia
This is a top pick! I am now almost 4000 metres high in La Paz (The Peace), Bolivia.........after 3 weeks and 1200km of cycling and marvelling at the multi coloured canyons of Argentina and then freezing and gasping through the yellow high plains (altiplano) of Bolivia. And ...
I Survived the Worlds Most Dangerous Road
This is a top pick! I here in Brazil now and the relief of no altitude is overwhelming..... The last couple of days I spent in Bolivia were in La Paz and Corioco. We left Copacaba late in the evening and got into La Paz around 10pm. Piss off and tied from the earlier 6 ...
My week in La Paz
This is a top pick! Well, what did I do with my time in La Paz? I arrived here almost two weeks ago, Sunday night. The first week I didnīt do to much, but taking Spanish classes. Those were OK, but not much more than that. The teacher understood what I needed, beeing a lot ...
Huayna Potosi (6088m), ge moet goe zot zijn!
This is a top pick! I found out there was an "easy" 6000der to climb near La Paz. Almost every travel agency in La Paz is offering the climb, so it really couldnīt be that hard. Also the fact that a 6000der would look great on my resume made me decide to do it. Two choices: ...
Paz in La Paz
This is a top pick! ... was going on. It was fantastic and I liked it much more than the first two. Things I Learned * When there is an election on in Bolivia, everything shuts down. * You cannot avoid walking uphill in La Paz. * Street burgers and hot dogs are great ...
Monkey Magic
This is a top pick! ... of the Inca gods and believed to be the cradle of civilisation itself, starkly beautiful and still very untouched and barren. Bolivia reads like a Guiness book of world records, the highest lake, highest capital city, the most dangerous road, the biggest ...
Running in Place
This is a top pick! ... we'll take all the silver back to Spain.) Despite an active tourism trade, there is only one US owned hotel in Bolivia, the La Paz Radisson. McDonald's and Domino's Pizza opened a few restaurants a while back but had to pull out because of the ...
La Paz
This is a top pick! ... hospitality club hosts for over 10 years. When I arrived, the house was full with a Francois and Leila (father and daughter) from french-speaking Canada, Sophie from Denmark and me. I am using La Paz as a base to explore the northern part of ...
Rain Delays Step Off To Amazon.
This is a top pick! ... in front reclined their seats, our stuff is trapped underneath and our knees bruised. We do however manage some sleep. On arrival in La Paz bus station we immediately grab a bus to a hostel and manage to be checked into a private room. (none were showing ...
La Paz
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from La Paz in our entry from Copacabana, Bolivia entitled 'Mamacoca!'. Cheers, K & ...
Light headed in lively La Paz-by Kia
This is a top pick! ... plain ol' 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 ...
The highest capital
This is a top pick! We caught a morning bus from Copacabana to La Paz. The bus wasnīt full so he kept stopping for people on the side of the road. There would be a chorus of "hurry up!", "letīs go!", and "Come on!" from every corner of the bus. It was ...
The highest capital in the World
This is a top pick! ... and large number of cacti. The area only came under national protection in 2003 as building and construction on the outskirts of La Paz had encroached the little remaining area that shows the historical geography of the canyon. Oh and there is a golf ...
Livin' It Up On Death Road
This is a top pick! James was confident, I was really scared! I just kept thinking "there's an animal sanctuary at the end of this". We went with Gravity, ominous name but highly regarded and rightly so. There are some real horror stories about some of the companies, ...
The Highest capital in the world
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
BA - Santiago - La Paz
This is a top pick! ... my piece for the Argentinian tourist board is over...... A brief overnight in Santiago airport was necessary en route to La Paz, Bolivia where, providing the news and information we're receiving is correct and up to date, the recent political unrest ...
A Quick Stop
This is a top pick! A quick stop for the night back in La Paz, before catching our bus to Copacabana. We survived the notorious cemetery in Lima when we went to catch the bus. The worst that happened was that us poor tourists got charged twice the price for the ...
From the Valley of the Moon to Huayana Potosi
This is a top pick! ... Potosi soars into the brilliant Bolivian sky only thirty kilometers from the bustling streets of the world's highest capital city, La Paz. Its beautiful snow-clad slopes are seen everywhere on posters and 'daily departure' boards dotted along travel ...
Shopping it up
This is a top pick! ... , it was a painless 20 minute procedure and I had my entrance to Paraguay in my passport. Things I Learned * The post office in La Paz sews your package up like a dead sailor in his hammock after thoroughly checking everything (and being appalled at ...
La Paz - crazy city at nearly 4km altitude...
This is a top pick! ... the fumes are pretty strong and due to the altitude we can’t walk very far without a break. Despite this initial impression, La Paz does grow on us and we do enjoy the time here. Mainly by trying the many, many restaurants and ...
First days in Bolivia
This is a top pick! ... explored the rest of the city a bit and Roel went to see a movie (Gangs of New York) in the evening. We found La Paz and Bolivia much more relaxed then Peru. We could, for example, browse through shops at leisure, and their are lots of opporunities to ...