Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
Tupiza Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tupiza, Bolivia
3 Days of heaven or hell??
1 day spent horse riding in Tupiza 3 day salt flats tour! Day 1 - 4am start, white lagoon, volcanos, green lake , red lake, sulpher gysers, red lake , hot springs, Lamas Pink Flamingos Day 2 - major altitude sickness Day 3 - salt hotel crash site, ...
Horsing around
... incorrect trotting left me with a saw back the following day and Jon a sore bum. We both agreed it was well worth it and would do it again! Well enough of the Bolivia, back to our second home, Argentina for some real meat and ...
welcome to the wild west.
... days. We arrived at the villazon train station at 1pm to catch the 3.30 train. Loads of time I hear you say?......NO!!!! in Bolivia it takes two hours to get your ticket even though there are only 15 people before you. ...
Bolivia part 2
We decided to get the train most of the way to Tupiza, Bolivia despite a travel agent saying it would be impossible to get a ticket as it was holiday season so there would be hardly any seats and a long line at the ticket office early in the morning. ...
Salar de Uyuni Tour: Day 1
... age who was pretty cool), I had an incredible time. I have never seen such incredible scenery in my entire life! Get yourself to Bolivia! Or at least live vicariously through me...that is, if I ever get caught up on my blog. :) I took hundreds of ...
Entering mysterious Bolivia
... , Uruguay and Chile here it was more the feeling of being an intruder, disturbing the order or just being the money machine. Bolivia, is one of the poorest South-American country yet has a huge amount of natural resources as lithium, silicium, silver and ...
Lunar landscapes, llama lunches & devilish passes
... in (very basic, but had 4 walls and a roof so did the job), a small church, a basketball court (strangely, many towns in Bolivia seem to have one of these, despite most Bolivians not being quite basketballer build) and a llama. After a hearty dinner we ...
Going Gaucho
We finally made the bus and began an incredibly long, dusty and bumpy journey to Tupiza - refuge to Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid..sort of! It was so bloody cold that the condensation on the windows turned to ice....by the afternoon of course ...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
... day longer than planned in Tupiza as I forgot my hiking boots in Uyuni and as a size 43 is considered giant feet in Bolivia - and thus almost impossible to find - I have to wait for my shoes to catch up with me as the nicest ...
South American Deserts
From La Paz we took a 16 hour bus ride to Tupiza, in the south of Bolivia. This is still in the highlands, but much lower (2500m). It looks like the US midwest, with red mountains, dry desert like conditions and lots of cactuses. Daytime temperature is ...
Good bye Bolivia
... on these reprobates and just watch with amazement how they go about there disorganised and dishevelled lives. Tupiza was my last stop in Bolivia and it was a beautiful Wild West town where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid stayed. It ...
Horse riding
Encore un trajet horrible dans le sud de la bolivie mais les paysages de la fin recompensent le fait de ne pas avoir pris le train de nuit, encore que, pas si sur... Ici, on vient faire du cheval, alors va pour le cheval. La balade d une journee avec ...
In the back of beyond
... . Sadly, no matter how far away he went, I could still smell him (the horse, not James). Tomorrow we´re off to Argentina. Bolivia has been fantastic, so we´ll be sad to leave, but we´re really looking forward to Argentinian wines, steak (for James) and ...
crossing into Bolivia - dusty but fun !
... back pack for 2km fill in some forms have a laugh with the gun bearing policeman then walk across bridge into villazon- Bolivia. ...
Tupiza in a pod
... only problem is EVERYTHING is covered in thick brown dust, it is absolutely everywhere. In fact Julie says I am full of it!!!!!! Tupiza is a nice town, with a "is it half started or half finished" look. The locals were preparing for a forthcoming street ...
Day 168 - Tupiza
... dinner and then considered our journey south tomorrow to the Argentinian border. We've had a FANTASTIC time in Bolivia, which is an amazingly attractive place with some astonishingly varied landscape, offering generally low prices and ...
Next Time I Say Lets Go Someplace Like Bolivia ...
... for five minutes of entertainment for the ladies of Tupiza. Flattered as I was, I had plans to meet a friend in Oruro (Bolivia's biggest Carnaval celebration) that night so I was forced to decline. The bus failed to arrive due to the rains and though it ...
Droga do Tupizy- Boliwia
Spimy zbyt dlugo i musimy sie mocno spieszyc by zdazyc na autobus, w tym calym chaosie do konca niejestesmy pewni czy wszystko zabralismy z hostelu. Podroz do La Quiaca praktycznie przesypiamy. Na miejsce dotarlismy przed 14-sta. Na dworcu ...
Tupiza and back in the saddle!!
... our trip to the Salar de Uyuni (salt flats). We had vaguely met a couple of guys in Potosi and ran into them again in Tupiza and decided to join them for a 5 day journey to the salt flats. We had 2 days before we were to leave and the ...
Tupiza - Wild Wild West! Spectacular
... (but that story coming later).... Sunday we get our cowboy hats on and go for a 3 hour horse ride into the Canyons of Tupiza (super fun!) Cantering a bit parry whilst our young guide laughs! 4 day 4x4 tour organised leaving at 9 am in the morning ...
Bolivia
On 19th May we entered Bolivia. Passing through customs with no problems, the difference between Argentina and Bolivia was immediatly obvious. The feel was generally less well off and less comercalised. The roads were dirt roads, and there were small ...
Ride 'em cowboy!
... for a pit stop in a small town the brakes almost failed and we nearly went careering into the market. Eventually we arrived in Tupiza and found a really quite swanky hostel (well compared to the one we stayed in at Uyuni it was the Ritz!). The perfect ...
Horse back riding
... time was an excuse for Cezars horse to flirt and hit on our horses. Four hours was just enough as we got home our buts were quite sore. We packed our stuff around noon and headed to the bus station to leave Bolivia for the last time go to ...
Sucre to Tupiza
... still was good to have done it. From Tupiza we intended to go to Argentina via Villazon on the border. Another Bolivian bus journey to be had... again with no toilets on board. Bolivia seems not to believe in toilets on busses, unlike Ecuador and ...
The wild, wild west
... the miracle of Viaxin, I no longer cough all day. We also just got to have some adventure canyoneering in southern Bolivia. It´s alot like Utah or Arizona. I´ve been uploading pictures forever! Satellite internet doesn´t upload well. I need ...
Day 164 - Southwest Circuit (Day 1)
... of the next 4 days in each other's pockets, so it was important that we got on well. There were 2 other jeeps leaving today from Tupiza Tours, one with 6 Irish guys & girls in, and the other with 2 French and 2 from the Basque country. We set off ...