Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
Bolivia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bolivia
Little Mountain Refuge
... mee! Gelukig zijn de prijzen redelijk dus konden we het makkelijk een weekje uithouden. Samaipata is een van de 'hippy hangouts' van Bolivia en het is dus niet zo vreemd dat het ons wel beviel. Het ligt op slechts 1750m boven de zeespiegel. Dit maakt het ...
White City
After our first couple of weeks in Bolivia we were eager to settle down again and learn some Spanish. We had heard that Sucre was a quaint little city with a laid back vibe and temperate weather. We also heard that you could sign up for Spanish lessons at ...
La Paz
There are several things to say about La Paz. First of all, it is very high up, about 4000 metres above sea level. Secondly, it is full of very steep hills. Thirdly, it is very hot in the day and cold at night. Fourthly, although ...
Welcome to the wild wild west
... get us here. We found a hotel that was a whopping $4.50 each for a private room! Oh how I love the prices in Bolivia!!!! We decided we would spend the next day chilling out- getting our washing down, getting some work related internet stuff done, research ...
Goodbye Rurre, hello La Paz
... chatting to. She is french and after chatting a while we discover that we basically have the same itinerary for south bolivia. Her english is not fantastic but somewhat better than my 6th form level french that I haven´t spoken for 15 ...
Butch Cassidy country: the wild west
... .) Though the true story is that Butch was killed here in tupiza. stick with the movie i guess. The experience of crossing into Bolivia was rather surreal: we got off our bus at high altitude, very very cold, in the dark at bout 6.30am. We kinda ...
Road trip out East!!!!
... after a quick breakfast, we headed to the Coroico bus terminal...the largest construction project my organization has ever completed in Bolivia. Coroico is one of Bolivia's top tourist spots and for years, the buses would leave and pick up ...
Day 17!
Well then i finally got back to the hotel around 9 am. Certainly was an eye opener heading home from the club at this time with my night finishing and the rest of the town begining yet another day of market trade. Only 10 hours before these same streets ...
Acclimating
... so here it goes. Got to SeaTac at about 13:00 on the 28th of November for the start of various flights to La Paz, Bolivia. The flights were basically normal - some turbulence, really bad food and unable to sleep. We finally landed at La Paz airport at ...
Risen from death (maybe)
Well, thanks to some little magic pills, sorochi pills, we are finally feeling human again. Unbearable Headache and stomach aches are pretty much gone, so now all we need to adjust to is the breathlessness. Never underestimate altitude sickness; it is ...
Dicing with death
... can only presume Bolivian bureaucracy requires a ridiculous number of copies of important documents. Approximately 1 in 3 Bolivians owns a photocopying shop. Bolivia is overrun with packs of dogs. I don’t know if they are wild or pets that get ...
Takesi trek - Palca Canyon to Yannacachi
The day after Francois left I started the 3 day Takesi trek with Manny. Day one and we hopped on a micro bus where we alighted at Huni. From here we had a long downhill trail until the Palca Canyon. All the way down our descent we were rewarded with ...
with a dash of salt please
... , I thought about what a popsicle I would become if I were stranded on those vast unforgiving plains overnight. Did I mention the coldness of Bolivia yet? Well, if you are coming from the north this time of year, then don't wait to buy a beanie and ...
Walking with dinosaurs
... nice to get closer than 100m though. Apparently, there is a hike to see, and stand in, footprints in stone somewhere nearby, but the access road was washed out when we were there. Even without that, Sucre must be the place in Bolivia to bring little ...
Bolivia is wonderful, and Happy 4th of July!
Sadly, this is a very short entry just to say, I love Bolivia! I flew from Arequipa to La Paz (via Lima) last Saturday evening (no issues), and have been on the go with the KE Adventure group ever since! Not even time for email or ...
Ilegalac u Boliviji: Potosi
Nas odlazak iz prasnjavog Ujunija pao je u nedelju, kada imigraciona kancelarija nije radila. Posto sam ukapirala tu cinjenicu i pocela da brinem, nas vozac me je ubedio da slobodno produzimo dalje i zavrsimo posao oko moje bolivijske vize u Potosiju, ...
The Minuteman has the last laugh!
... is a part of Bolivia´s culture and has been for hundreds of years. Coca helps combat the effects of altitude and as most of Bolivia is kilometres above sea level it was something we may need to rely on ourselves. When we eventually arrived in the train ...
The Butch Cassidy - Sundance Kid ride in Tupiza
The very next day as early as we could we jumped on a bus to Tupiza, a town right in the south of Bolivia. The 10 hour, 100 mile bus ride was very scenic, yet it was probably the most uncomfortable ride I'd ever take. The journey took us thought mainly ...
Potosi and the mines of Cerro Rico
That evening I jumped on an 8 hour bus to Potosi on what was meant to be a 'semi cama' bus, semi cama normally means lots of leg room and good reclining seats. This bus had so little leg room even a short arse like me could barely squeeze into the seats. ...
Unbelievable Uyuni!
... a town there, no-one knows. It is situated in the middle of the most barren area, with one of the harshest climates in Bolivia. The snow made the town even more unpleasant but it was rather festive as the town was filled to the brim with stranded tourists ...
Some final thoughts on Peru
During our time in Peru, there were many things we observed that we found very interesting about the country in general: - Children are really well-behaved. We particularly noticed this in the village of Yanque, where 9 kids quietly entertained ...
Eine Hauptstadt noch verschlafener als Bern
Was ist die Hauptstadt von Bolivien??? Oh nein, nicht La Paz, sondern Sucre. Die ganze Regierung und das Parlament sitzt zwar in La Paz doch die Hauptstadt ist Sucre, was wohl die wenigsten ausserhalb von Bolivien wissen. Sucre war für die Spanier ...
Bolivian Amazon
Amazingly Paul & I are the only two people on our trip. The company still runs then even with 2. Not that we´re complaining a personal guided 3 day trip into the rainforest...!!!! not bad. Since our Spanglish is still not fantastic ...
Expect the Unexpected in Bolivia
... to the other side of lake Titicaca while watching our bus slowly reach the other side in a flat liner. The boarder of Bolivia was a little hectic, since everything that could go wrong did. I did not have my Peruvian ticket which added a good ...
Potosi carnival
This day trip to Potosi - the town famous for its silver mine with its tough working conditions for miners - gave me my first experience of a Bolivian entrada (carnival). I took the first bus out of Sucre with Miriam, a friend of Fenix Language School ...
In La Paz
Took the bus from Copacabana at 18h, went over moutains along the lake Titicaca then around 20h got a ferry to cross the lake (crazy). The bus took a boat and we took one separatly. Xavi didnt want to pay the 1 bol (10 euro cents) to cross the river and ...
In the mines
Possibly one of the scariest things I´ve done in my life. Crouching down to enter the mines where there's 5km of walking before daylight is to be seen again really is one of the scariest things Ive ever seen through. Memories of the Pirates of the ...
Hmmm...
I´d like to say something definitive about Oruro, and i´m sure it is a nice town if you stay longer than 1 night and get to know it, but it is a high, industrial, smelly, polluted big city. It did, however, have some good food and a train station ...
A Cowboy Xmas
We arrived back in Tupiza for Kev's birthday eve and what better way to spend your birthday in "Cowboy" country than in a saloon bar! All feeling shattered from the early morning starts on the tour we were very happy to settle in for a meaty dinner, lots ...
Briefly in La Paz, then onto Copa... Copacabana...
... ... Someone must have noticed I wasn´t there... maybe the grain lady?! Whoever it was, I was grateful... Ahhh, Bolivia - there´s always an adventure here! The bus moved on, and I arrived in Copacabana at about 10ish... But the ...