Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
Bolivia Slideshow
Bolivia
Travel Blogs from Bolivia
A steady stroll on a Sunday aftrnoon
This is a top pick! ... after a short walk from the restaurant, Lorna became ill again. Poor girl is just not having much luck on our 2nd visit to Bolivia! We went back to the hostel for a couple of hours whilst she pulled everything together. In the evening I decided to nip ...
Bolivia. The Big Fact
This is a top pick! ... in South Americas poorest country. Turns out this is also the capital of Bolivia, Bolivia has two capitals, Sucre and La Paz. Bolivia's most famous export is its marching powder which generates around US$1 billion a year for Bolivia La Paz, which is ...
Tihuanaco ruins
This is a top pick! I took a day trip to the Tihuanaco ruins near lake Titicaca today. There were some impressive pyramids and stone statues, and the precision with which the tihuanacos had carved the stone to fit perfectly together was amazing (to carve they used llama ...
Volunteering at the animal Sanctuary
This is a top pick! Dean: We are spending about 15 days at an animal sanctuary in Villa Tunari (www.intiwarayassi.org). We will be here for Christmas and New Year and we don't think that there will be any Internet :-( If we can we will update the site but ...
Her name wasn't Lola and she wasn't a showgirl
This is a top pick! ... Back on the mainland it was off to find the nearest chicken shack, before crashing into bed for the early bus across the border to Bolivia and the small fishing town of Copacabana. Here we had the option of going to more islands on the Lake, but I ...
Election fever
This is a top pick! Hello everyone! A quick entry from what will be my home for Christmas, New Year and beyond! I've been in Sucre for a week already and time is flying. I've started proper Spanish lessons with a lovely language school and am now learning how to do ...
Salar De Uyuni
This is a top pick! Sorry for the delay in writing this entry! IŽll skip it in the meantime and write about it in June, IŽll add a link back here at that time. Cheers for ...
Leaving the Altiplano Behind
This is a top pick! ... aptly describe this city of perpetual spring. Although our guide books had clearly warned us of the nerve-shattering atmosphere of Bolivia's largest market town, we decided that a short ramble through the heart of the market would be of interest. The ...
The big bike adventure begins... or tries to.
This is a top pick! ... had been punctured and petrol was leaking on to my bike! Bad for 2 reasons 1)Because I couldve exploded 2)There is a petrol crisis in Bolivia at the moment. Its like gold dust and we kept passing petrol stations saying 'no petrol today' and we had to just ...
Big fry up then off to Sucre...with a bit of vomit
This is a top pick! As predicted, today was a slow day. We managed to drag ourselves out of bed around 12noon, then got our stuff packed before checking out of the hostel at 1pm. We threw our bags into the storage room and headed out for breakfast/lunch. We ended up at ...
A day of rest for Lorna
This is a top pick! We arrived at Sucre bus terminal around 8am and, due to Lorna's illness, we got a taxi to the hostel. Luckily our room was ready, but we actually decided to upgrade to a room with ensuite and TV - only a couple of quid more. We expected to spend most ...
Monkey mayhem!
This is a top pick! So after surviving mountain biking down the Worlds Most Dangerous Road (100 people die every year on this one stretch of road, mainly due to buses and trucks falling off the edge of the very narrow, windy roads, most of which are bordered by 1000m sheer ...
The Lazy Thin Air of La Paz
This is a top pick! ... are children playing, market stalls, restaurants, hairdressers and even a hotel. It looks more like the streets of El Alto, Bolivia's poorest neighbourhood that sprawls on the outskirts of La Paz, than a prison. The prison is divided into eight sectors ...
Dinosaurs, Flamingos and a Load O' Salt
This is a top pick! ... high altitude town of Uyuni, which doesn't merit a visit except as a starting point for trips into the wilderness in southwestern Bolivia (well, the town also has an incredibly good pizza place run by a guy from Boston). The evening we arrived was spent ...
Cancelled!
This is a top pick! With not much planned to do in La Paz we just wandered around town, went into the Iglesia de San Francisco and walked to the San Pedro Prison. Overlooking the city was Illimani mountain, sitting at 6402 meters above sea level. One of the things we ...
The magical blue colour of Lago Titicaca
This is a top pick! ... woman was realy glad we stayed there, she could use the money very well (she had a sick daughter receiving treatment somewhere else in Bolivia and needed money to be able to go and visit her). She told us that from April until August, there had been two ...
The Tarabuco Market
This is a top pick! We went to the little town of Tarabuco for their Sunday market. No crazy stories to tell, but here are some ...
Another day in the capital
This is a top pick! The toilet activity, as promised yesterday, arrived at 7.30am. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, so another plus sign for the Star of India. We had a bit of a sort it out day today. Obviously we started the day with our free pancakes before ...
Sucre
This is a top pick! ... some parts of the road very difficult to pass... consequence: waiting, off the bus, pushing the bus, waiting for another bus, pushing the other bus, on the bus, back off the bus... Anyway, Sucre, the capital of Bolivia, we ll soon find out what it s ...
Worlds Most Dangerous Road... on a bike...SMASH!!!
This is a top pick! We woke up at about 5.30am. I for one was worried that today might be my last. A few reasons really, not having been on a bike (except wine tasting in Mendoza) for years, serious lack of balance, altitude, scratched sunglasses to blur ...
The Highest city in the world.
This is a top pick! Potosi, Bolivia is the most important city you probably have never heard of. In the colonial days, Potosi was the largest and richest city in the Western Hemisphere, and some say in the world - it had a larger population than Paris, London, ...
Touring the Potosi Silver Mines
This is a top pick! ... No - they dump it in the river". Spicy informed me. (Another reason to always drink bottled water in Bolivia) The mining operations are run as a co-op, so the miners split all the profits from the extracted ...
A brief tale of two cities and an island.
This is a top pick! ... am stamped out of this amazing country that have exceeded even my highest expectations and given 30 days in my passport to spend in Bolivia. Copacabana, oh that sounds nice and warm. Well it ain't in Bolivia.. But beautiful - OH YES! Having been a wee ...
Into the Wild
This is a top pick! ... to visit Bolivia ... however I changed my mind and ended up staying two weeks. IŽm glad I did because Bolivia has easily become one of my new favorite countries. One of the main reasons ...
Dangerous living at the top of the world...
This is a top pick! ... the chewing Bolivians, rather fix the problem in your own back yard", thus one of the reasons for all the political conflict between Bolivia and the West. Coca chewing aside, La Paz certainly did have a lot to keep us busy but we decided to ...
A setback in Santa Cruz
This is a top pick! ... the number of air-conditioned shopping malls, luxury vehicles and upmarket cafes hint at a demograpic different from the rest of Bolivia. People seem wealthier and are more European in looks; there are very few Indians on the streets. Needless to ...
Marcel in La Paz
This is a top pick! Marcel at some typical spots of La Paz. More to be added the next ...
The Inca Trail (Peru and Bolivia)
This is a top pick! ... ] propane tanks blocking the road. I'm not sure if this was some sort of protest or them just wanting their propane tanks filled. Bolivia has a lot of political protests. I went back to the same hostel and just after getting there it started to rain. I ...