Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
La Paz Slideshow
La Paz
Travel Blogs from La Paz, Bolivia
The cama bus
... if your lucky you can get one with fully reclining seats, however Ryan and I didn't manage that. So the next morning in La Paz I did some clothes washing and the all too helpful Hostel said that they would look after our luggage until our bus in the ...
Potosi - La Paz
von potosi gings per nacht bus nach la paz. hier mussten wir erstmal am morgen um 5 ein hotel suchen, was uns aber dank dem taxifahrer dann dochnaoch gelang. dann gingen wir erstmal schlafen. hier besuchten wir das valle de la luna und den berg ...
Potosi - La Paz
von potosi gings per nacht bus nach la paz. hier mussten wir erstmal am morgen um 5 ein hotel suchen, was uns aber dank dem taxifahrer dann dochnaoch gelang. dann gingen wir erstmal schlafen. hier besuchten wir das valle de la luna und den berg ...
Little Israel
... on the way in is just depressing. Theres just so many people, so much poverty and so much rubbish it gets to you. La Paz was great for shopping, the huge mercado negro has everything you could ever want. We were staying beside the Witches Market where ...
The city on the hill!!!!
La Paz is the world's highest capital city, located at 3660metres. La Paz sits in a bowl surrounded by the high mountains of the Andes. As the city gets bigger it climbs the hills, resulting in varying elevations from 3000-4100metres above sea level. The ...
Well, itīs not every day you climb a mountain
... technically easy to climb. Huayna Potosi is a mountain in the Cordillera Real (Royal mountain range) and is easily accessible from La Paz. After speaking with our Aymara guide at Tiwanaku, she said that it was best to make an offering before climbing ...
La Paz, Le vieux Quartier
... et la trilogie du Seigneur des anneaux le tout pour 1 euro. Nous sortons Lucie et moi dejeuner et visiter le vieux quartier de La Paz. On retrouve cette architecture coloniale typique. On visite le musee du textil et du folklore bolivien. On y trouve de ...
Lunar Landscape in La Paz and Lunatic Biking!
... walked across the actual border we were accompanied by a marching band, I donīt think everyone gets this service! On the way to La Paz we called in at Copacabana (The place where the famous Copacabana is named after). It was a pretty little port but ...
Crazy, sky high Bolivia...
... the mountains, but Spanish settlers flocked there to exploit gold reserves (taking the mines from the indigenous people). The setting of La Paz is beautiful, with the mountains forming a natural bowl in which the city is built. The historic centre of the ...
La Paz
... was standing up taking photos the entire time. Again, we were amazed at the most perfect little plazas that exist in Bolivia, very pretty. La Paz is like any big city I suppose but it is not westernized and therefore a bit more enjoyable to walk around ...
Cobbles, hills and the world's most dangerous road
... the journey from Copacabana (still Bolivia, though we were making slow progress towards the real one in Rio) to La Paz, the cultural capital of Bolivia. Tyre changing apart, the journey was actually quite enjoyable, given that half way through we had to ...
Bo + Livia!
Dagen efter vi kom hjem fra Inka-tinka byen Machu Picchu nappede vi natbussen til La Paz, Bolivia. Et af de fattigste lande i verden. La Paz er (uofficielt) hovedstaden i Bolivia og ligger i 3600 meters hoejde, hvilket goer den (uofficielt) til verdens ...
Ancient runs and dangerous roads
... 'd be wrong however, since officially the capital of Bolivia is actually Sucre. Never let it be said that my blog isn't educational! La Paz is still pretty darn high. Coming from the salt plains however, the altitude is a welcome relief! During my stay ...
Moon Landing
The Valle De La Luna is a strange moon like formation situated just far enough out of La Paz for the smell and sound of the capital to be completely blocked off and after over 2 weeks of being a resident it was about time to find a bit of sanctuary. The ...
La Paz
Hello All! Just a very quick entry from La Paz, Bolivia, highest capital city in the world at 3600 meters. Been much higher than that in the past few days (5900 meters, roughly 19,000 feet), but that's a story that will have to wait, as this internet ...
downhill biking
... ; which is next to the bus terminal, i booked my downhill biking trip for tomorrow, then walked around the city, La Paz is craaaaaazy! it seems like itīs out of control, very crowded, everyone is trying to sell something, lots of noice, ...
Best BIKE-TOUR ever, Downhill pur
... haend mir Helm und Sunnebruelle gha bi Hagelchoerner vo 0.5 bis 1cm. Wow, es isch en geniale Tag gsi, au waenn ihr jetzt wohl alli de Chopf schuettled!!! PS: Fuer La Paz kaenner: nei, das isch noed "The Worlds most dangerous Road" uf Coroico ...
quick update from bolivia (missing photos)
... out for dinner, literally waiting one and a half hour for a soup (great country). Next morning- five/six hour drive to La Paz, arriving JUST in time for the final day of the Carnaval. Everybody bought clown suits and got pissed on the street. Fun ...
Huyuna Potosi
... be a great experience to climb to the summit of Huyuna Potosi... a 6000 metre high mountain just an hour outside of La Paz. I bumped into some other travellers I met in Buenos Aires and managed to convince another fellow Australian that it would be a ...
Pick Pocketed.
Well, so far La Paz is a fascinating city. Much more so then Buenos Aires. Much more contrast between the good and the bad as well. So many people, so much chaos. It can be stressful, but also very interesting. Yesterday was fairly uneventful, but we ...
The Most Dangerous Road in the World
... had gone back home or continued on to new lands, but the rest of us decided to make the most of some of our last days in La Paz and do the Death Road cycling tour with Xtreme Downhill, a travel agency in Calle Sagarnaga, at the top of the road where it ...
The Fighting Irish!
... room. Tuesday we booked our cycle of the infamous World’s Most Dangerous Road with Gravity Tours for the Wednesday! [Ciaran] La Paz is mad, very very hard to remember anything, all that happened was drinking drinking which, for anyone who ...
Breathless in La Paz
... : obese), very slow moving and always in your way....aka pains in the asses. Although we had only anticipated on staying three nights in La Paz, it's turned into seven. Something we had to do so that we didn't have to backtrack in the coming weeks. We've ...
La Paz drugi put
Nakon Rurrenabaquea vratila sam se u La Paz u hostel Adventure brew (6e noc, dobijes navecer besplatno domace pivo i ujutro americke palacinke all you can eat ;)) U hostelu sam upoznala Neila, lika iz Londona koji putuje za Kolumbiju tako da cemo putovati ...
Valle de luna og Chachaltaya
Idag var vi paa vores foerste guidede tur i La Pazīs omegn. Vi startede dagen med at koere igemmen La Paz, i morgen trafikken tager det ca 40 min med vinduerne paa fuld gab og benzin osen staaende ind af vinduerne - puhaa - vi glaeder os efterhaanden ...
Returning to La Paz
... us right over Lago Titicaca, which was huge and stunning and started getting me excited about heading back into Bolivia. The flght coming into La Paz over the mountians, and the sprawling city that hangs from them, was head-shake-inducing-ly stunning. ...