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 world´s highest capital...
On September 10th we woke up and had a private tour of La Paz for 3 hours that included a visit to the witch markets. There we saw all sorts of potions claiming to help anything from your love life to your financial situation. They also had a lot of ...
Bolivia
... (cajafate). It was really amazing and beautiful even though our tour guide sucked. THis is the luck weve been ahving. right before La Paz we arrived in Bolivia and took a train to the city of Tupiza. there we found a tour with some other ppl, A french ...
Lake Titicaca, Isla del Sol & Laz Paz
... bus went on a very dubious looking wooden floating thing and bobbed precariously all the way to the other side - it was very entertaining! La Paz is the highest capital city in the world at 3660m. The sight of the city lying in the valley 500m below as ...
We climbed one of Bolivia's 6000er!!!
... the summit) left and right cliffs that fell down more than thousand meters. Far below us, we could make out the lights of La Paz (El Alto), Copacabana, Lake Titicaca other 6000ers (Illimani, Nevado Sajama, etc). We were only allowed a couple of minutes up ...
Intro to Flying from La Paz
... I was too tired to put up much of a fight about it at that point. The basic lesson learned is don't fly from La Paz unless absolutely necessary. Apparently they cancel flights about 2 days out of every week. This one was due to protests ...
LaPaz oder Ausbuechsen fuer Anfaenger
... Nach fuenf bis sechs Anrufen hatten wir den Padre ueberzeugt, dass die Welt nicht untergeht, wenn wir an diesem Sonntag in La Paz bleiben und die Sonntagsmesse verpassen. Kann wieder keiner verstehen, wie schwer das war und wie befreiend dieser Sieg fuer ...
La Paz
... day it was off to Puno for our trip to Lake Titicaca........or was supposed to be. A bus strike in Bolivia meant that no buses were entering or leaving La Paz and there was no way we would be able to cross the border into Peru. It was too dangerous to ...
La Paz? Outra chance.....
Bom, depois de 2 dias não mto bons, resolvi dar outra chance a La Paz. Falei com aquele casal boliviano (Karyn e Roberto) que conheci em Machu Picchu e eles me convidaram pra ir almoçar no apartamente deles! Muito fofos!!! Eles moram no 23° andar e tem ...
A Gentile Bike Ride In The Countryside
P's Report After Machu Pichu we were to make our way leisurely down to Bolivia & La Paz via Lake Titicaca for a few days - unfortunately due to no fault of my own the place we stayed had no ATMs, and thus we had to make a much earlier departure with ...
Rundfahrt durch die Stiftung, Zoo und Operationen
Hola! Heute schreibt die Anna mal alleine, denn der Michi muss das Bett hueten, aber dazu spaeter. Gestern wurden Michi und ich von der Arbeit entfuehrt und zwar von der Direktorin der Fundacion Señora Melba hoechstpersoenlich mitsamt Personalchef und ...
La Paz....FINALLY!!!
We took a cab from the airport to Hotel Turismo, in the center of stuff for La Paz. Ash will meet us here tomorrow. YEAH!!! Right now, we´re just relaxing and getting used to the thin air above 12,000 feet...its beautiful and sunny, and the city ...
Virée dans la Zona Sur
Nous partons vers la mi-journée pour la partie riche de La Paz, dans la Zona Sur dans le quartier de San Miguel. Plus qu'un quartier, la Zona Sur est une ville a part. Il faut pour y arriver emprunter une voie rapide qui descend près de 400 de ...
La Paz- Stomach Bug and witches markets!!
... as turbalence was really bad (especially during take off) The view coming into La Paz was amazing-it was the best thing really about La Paz seeing the capital city in the mountains. We got off and got taxi to our hostel which was again number 1 in trip ...
Carnaval is Following Us
... a city perched on a hillside and surrounded by towering peaks and the high plains of the Altiplano. Normally, one would find La Paz to be a bustling metropolis, colorful but chaotic at times, but charming all the same, with its street vendors ...
Bolivija oj bolivija
... . En dan sva z majo tako izkoristila in se sprehodila po enem teh otockov. Naslednji dan pa sva ze odpotovala 3 ure juzneje v prestolnico La Paz. Nekaj drugacnega. Mesto, ki lezi v kanjonu in je prava posebnost ima vse kar imajo velika mesta. No, le ...
Day 15!
Day 15 and we head across the border into Bolivia and onto La Paz. Was a massive journey in the bus today plenty of quality scenery along the way of course and alot of tunage and resting. We reached the border around midday signed out of Peru walked ...
La Paz, Bolivia
... yet), but we were well adjusted to the altitude by now! With only a week to get to Lima, we decided to limit La Paz to 2 days. A real shame because theres a lot to do here. We spent a short time in the city wondering around the creepy Witches ...
Part III - Oh, those Blockages...
... and booked ourselves on the next bus north to Lake Titicaca. Well, all good in planning but this is Bolivia. Within minutes of loading up and departing downtown La Paz we hit a road block. This was not a great way to start the day. Semi-furious, ...
Sorata to La Paz
... the driver, as it was not just 19 people but their bales of belongings wrapped in blankets too. We made it safely and quickly to La Paz. La Paz is just such a great looking city! I´ve never seen anything like it. It is surrounded by hills and inside a ...
Near death experience on Huayna Potosi
... the Cordillera Real, the lowlands of the rain forest, Lake Titicaca and the flat expanse of arid land which stretched out from La Paz. After a short while on the top we had to make our descent. Descents are apparently where most accidents happen and ...
La Paz, Arrivee
Chose incroyable, nous arrivons a la Paz avec 3h d'avance et pour une fois on aurai prefere le contraire. Bref, il est 6h du matin et nous attendons donc un peu avant d'aller chez Charlotte, une amie de Grenoble qui nous heberge. Elle fait ici son annee a ...
bolivia you can do better
... we finally got to sleep in which was glorious after being up at 6am for too many days...we caught the 1.30pm bus to La Paz. Upon arrival we were all very overwhelmed. La Paz is CRAZY. Our friends described it as 'more crazy than cambodia.' Greattttttttt. ...
Journey to the City in the Sky
... la paz! The short journey to Amsterdam was quickly over after having declined the goats cheese, walnut and orange sandwich (!)... transferred to our la paz flight and set off - al set off the security machines again & a guy from a Peruvian sports tour ...
La Paz - Bolivia
... an hour on this bus, we're told to get off again, and get on a boat! Which we still had to pay for. Eventually we reach La Paz (four hours late) and just go to the first hotel we see. Of course it's booked out, so it's off to find the next ...
Oh La Paz, thou art black
... to crash out. Jann was still accompanying us. The next day we set out to explore the bustling city of La Paz, population approx 4 million (half the population of Bolivia!), which is set in a huge bowl and dominated by a number of 6000m plus mountains. As ...
An early return to New Zealand?
... who at first seems flawless, but once undressed; reveals her protruding ........ varicose veins contradicting her initial attraction. La Paz seems so wonderfully enchanting, perched in a vast basin surrounded by elevated hills, with captivating ...
High Point of Our Travels
We spent 4 days in and around La Paz, Bolivia - and we really enjoyed every minute of it. The guide books advise you to be aware of your surroundings, that thieves prey on tourists (especially at the main bus terminal) and that protests are a part ...
Doing Hard Time
... museum (which was good), and then began to make my way to San Pedro Prison, which is a small city-like prison in downtown La Paz. It´s a community with its own restaurants, pharmacies, etc., and the families of the inmates live there as well. In the past ...