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.....are we ever gonna leave?
This is a top pick! ... at the hostal (i beat a mathmatician - how proud!). but we are finally there and about to leave tomorrow to tour round bolivia! we have done some other exciting things as well!!! we road pushbikes down the worlds most dangerous road - pretty scary with ...
Ride 'em cowboy (and girl!)
This is a top pick! ... buses, taxis or combos going anywhere because there was a national election. It turns out that as voting is compulsory in Bolivia to ensure people actually go they are not allowed to work. They also can’t drink alcohol the night before ...
This Is Just Regular Sausage Right?
This is a top pick! After our bumpy experience on the bus from La Paz to Uyuni we decided to catch the smooth train back to Orouro then a shorter three hour bus to La Paz. As the only way out is at 2.40AM, we imagine most tourists have to do what we did and pay for a whole ...
Sneaking through the Bolivian border
This is a top pick! ... fascinating to see. We had seen boiling mood and steam geysers in New Zealand but we never really thought about them being in Bolivia. Approximately an hour later we got to the first part of Laguna Colorada. We stopped off to get some photos of the ...
Bolivian Bliss
This is a top pick! ... seen, after a long satisfying slog watching the sun set over Lake titicaca and in the most peaceful surroundings, it had already made Bolivia special, special enough for us to have a bottle of Bolivian wine with dinner! The next day we headed back to ...
At the Copa...
This is a top pick! ... water front trying out Bolivian beer. We found in the first afternoon that we could feel some differences between Peru and Bolivia. The Peruvian tourism industry takes a pretty in your face marketing style (having reps from five restaurants follow you ...
Chilling out in an out of bounds town
This is a top pick! Today we just hung around Uyuni. We checked out of Prisoner Cell Block H around 11am then sat and had a late brekky of scrambled eggs. I then went off to book a bus to La Paz for that evening. The first place I went to had no places left (apparently, ...
Twelve Months Baby!
This is a top pick! ... us today and realised we were mostly thinking of you guys! Aside from this we took the bus from Copacabana to La Paz in Bolivia, which included a boat ride across Lake Titicaca at San Pablo de Tiquina (the bus went on a barge) where we tried not to ...
Thrashed Lorna at cards...and she lost a twix!
This is a top pick! Went down for our free basic brekky this morning. Lorna is feeling a lot better now, which is good news. We went to check out the trains and buses to Salta today. We have decided to get the train from Tupiza to Villazon, then walk across the border to ...
Bruised testicles & a sore backside...Interesting!
This is a top pick! ... We went to a similar restaurant to the one we'd already been to - actually, to be fair, most restaurants we've been to in Bolivia (outside La Paz) have all served pretty much the same food. We had a good few hours eating, drinking and chatting. Connor & ...
A Bus Tour Through La Paz
This is a top pick! We decided to go all out and do the proper $6 bus tour around the city. It promised to take us to places that we either would not or could not walk. We went out to an area called Valle de Luna, which is almost exactly like the badlands in South ...
Greetings from Mars!
This is a top pick! After spending a day on the Salar (salt flat), we continued making a massive loop through the desert in our land cruiser through martian landscapes of red, yellow, green, white, and adobe, with bizarre multi-colored salt lagoons packed with ...
La Paz Bolivia
This is a top pick! ... the extremeties. Susan took the altitude change a little worse and needed to sit down for a while before going through immigration. Bolivia has some strict requirements for Americans, so we were stuck being grilled over the lack of an official ïnvite ...
An Amazonian Adventure
This is a top pick! ... until we got to security where our bags were almost ripped apart by an overzealous woman when we told her we were on the Bolivia flight. Fortunately the check stopped short of a full cavity search and we didn’t get to hear the terrifying sound ...
Cycling on "Carretera de la Muerte" (Death Road)
This is a top pick! ... road so that big trucks don't have to use the dangerous one anymore, but apparently they still do!! So, some companies in Bolivia have started running cycle tours down it... Now there are very few accidents there, if you're careful... although we did ...
The Greatest
This is a top pick! Today I hurt more than I have ever hurt before. Today I pushed myself beyond breaking point and realised a level of determination that I didnt think I had in me. Today I reached to summit of a 6000+ m mountain and I will never ...
Uyuni - Some Home Comforts, But Still No Water!
This is a top pick! ... , Andrea and I ventured out for some breakfast, but were again victims of exasperatingly slow (almost non-existent) service - it seems that Bolivia is not the place to indulge in eating out. We spent a fair portion of the day back on the Internet (we had ...
Copacabana
This is a top pick! ... They are notibly quieter than their South American counterparts. If you are eating in a large full restaurant in Bolivia for example - you´ll still hear yourself chew. They whisper! We got to Copacabana which is on Lake Titicaca ...
Outside the prison... but wanting to be inside....
This is a top pick! ... we did it and it felt bloody good to know we had climbed up and down the worlds deepest canyon in less than 24 hours. So onto Bolivia. By this stage I think I had worn out my body and was well and truly full up with a cold by the time we got to Lake ...
From San Pedro to Uyuni
This is a top pick! Our trip from "San Pedro" Chile, across the astonishing landscapes to Uyuni in Bolivia, would take us three days and two nights. There are several agencies, but we went with "Cordillera Traveller" who´s selling point was that their drivers never got ...
entering "Tupiza", southern Bolivia
This is a top pick! ... of hositality?? Not anywhere!! So, courtesy of "Alfonso`s" generosity and goodwill, we had one of the best meal in "Bolivia" ever, Argentinian steak and Chorizio sausages, yum!! The following day we made our way to the border town, ...
La Paz, Las Rockas
This is a top pick! ... the feeling passed and I could tentatively continue eating. I hadn´t been effected by the altitude like this when I first arrived in Bolivia, but then I´d been in the mountains while in Argentina so that must have helped. La Paz is a great looking ...
El Fuerte, The Strength.
This is a top pick! We got a shared taxi out to Samaipata, a couple of hours away. Great way to travel and only twice the price of the really cheap bus (2 quid each). The journey was superb, through beautiful scenery that kept Farah busy snapping away. The town itself is a ...
4 flats in 3 days
This is a top pick! ... We got back exhausted, hot and dusty (the dirt tracks throw up loads of dust so you can't have the windows open, and this is Bolivia so air-con doesn't exist so you get hot but still dust inexplicably gets into the jeep so you are still covered in dust by ...
The Long Road Ahead
This is a top pick! ... just head to Bolivia, so I got another bus and after a few hours of passing through amazing scenery I was there, in Bolivia and strangely enough the number of Argentinian tourists dropped to a rate approximately equal to zero! They obviously don´t like ...
Copacabana - Haunted By Barry
This is a top pick! After crossing the Strait of Tiquina in a little boat, we reboarded our bus and wound our way down to Copacabana with lyrics from Barry Manilow buzzing round both our brains! We were dropped off at the lovely town square, complete with ornate, Moorish ...
Mountain Biking The World´s Most Dangerous Road
This is a top pick! ... and 200 people per year. In July 1983, Carlos Pizarroso Inde drove his bus over the edge, killing more than 100 passengers in Bolivia's worst ever road accident...and that was just one incident that year!!! Depending on who you ask, 7 or 8 mountain bikers ...
Now its salt, salt, salt and more......
This is a top pick! Another day, another headache, another painkiller. Had a good breakfast though of some sweet pastry fried thing with dulche de leche which is basically caramel. As ever, my diet is going well. Think we were all quite grateful to leave the place and ...
A few days in the highest city in the World!
This is a top pick! A storm in the night had knocked out the electricity in Sucre, so I was unable to watch the early Premiership game. Amazingly, 5 minutes after our 10.30am check-out, the electricity came back on....funny that eh? Anyhow, as we had an hour or two to kill ...