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- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
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- 8,300,463
- Population
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Tupiza Slideshow
Tupiza
Travel Blogs from Tupiza, Bolivia
The Wild South-West
I decided to go off-spreadsheet for my next location and ventured further south in Bolivia, close to the Argentine border, to an area containing spectacular canyons and rock formations more akin to Utah than Bolivia. Arrived about 3.30 in the ...
butch cassidy and the sundance kid
Geting to Tupiza was another nite bus and upon arriving there it was a mission to check into a hostel in the deserted town at 3.30am... I buzzed a bell on the hostel only to be let in when the night porter was convinced enough that i wasnt from ...
I Don't Like Mondays
Tupiza - Bolivia - 10th April 2007 I finally left Argentina on Easter Monday. I caught the bus at 1AM from Salta to La Quiaca on the Argentina-Bolivia border. I was sat next to an American girl, Katrina, on the bus, but we didn't chat much until at ...
Beautiful Bolivia
... bus ride we started to get the impression that our money is about to go a whole lot further now we are in Bolivia. After checking in we proceeded to confirm our upcoming four day jeep excursion to Uyuni which departs tomorrow morning. The ...
Cowboys and Cowgirls
... lake – and sits at 3600m altitude and is over 12000 sq km of pure white. The tour we chose starts in Tupiza and spends the first 3 days travelling east through the Bolivian mountains (altiplano) before finishing on the fourth day at the salt lake. ...
Tupiza Anniversario
All the day the local fanfare practiced for the evening. In the evening, the big day is the anniversario of Tupiza. In the evening, after a sunset on the hill over the city with sun reys on the town and the mountains around, the sound of the various group ...
Birthday break time
After a grueling yet rewarding 10 days camping in southwestern Bolivia, we made it to the beautiful valley that Tupiza calls home. We had one last night of camping (and there was no wind) before reentering civilization. In the morning, the sun came up, ...
day 23 - wednesday 17th october
... . i suspect its no big deal coz there is nothing on any of the english language sites about it. but all the same we said fuck bolivia lets go to the beach. so we are going to arica in chile today. its about a 22 hour trip in total. the distances here are ...
The Road to Bolivia!
The bus journeys in Argentina have been pretty good so far, however the one from Iguazu to Salta on our way to Bolivia, was in a league of it's own. Gone was the warm welcome, game of Bingo and complimentary wine, not to mention any sign of a warm ...
Moving on From Sucre
... find cheap flights, but worth every moment, can´t wait to catch up with her!!! So last night I got the night bus from Sucre to Tupiza, and arrived in Tupiza around 4am this morning (which was earlier than I expected). I was the only tourist ...
One Year and Still Kicking
... etc., with all but a few passing with little resistance. As far as we could tell, one could easily leave Argentina and enter Bolivia without even visiting immigration and no one would be the wiser – until one went to leave Bolivia. The first thing ...
From the Bizarre....to the Salar!
... culture and history of the country in general. Towards the end of the day we visited the Train Cemetery, literally a dumping ground for Bolivia’s old, rusting trains that are no longer in use - it sounds odd but it was actually a really cool sight! ...
You´ll never forget the Alamo
... day, but unlike most travel days we have had it was remarkably smooth. We stopped the night in a place called Tupiza, which is still in Bolivia but only a few hours from the Bolivian/Argentine border. This place was fairly unremarkable and our room smelt ...
Tom and Farah exploring Bolivias Wild Wild West
... see someone else enjoy and express themselves with a lot of intensity. To make things interesting and properly welcome Tom into Bolivia,I purchased us two tickets to a concert of some popular Bolivian artists Savia Andino. It certainly was a cultural ...
Salar de Uyuni Tour Day 2
Day 2 We finally got up at 5.10am, but I had not slept at all and felt terrible. Seems that everyone had trouble sleeping, except Epi! Breakfast was a little quieter than dinner the night before and the food was not as good either. We finally ...
Tootling about in Tupiza
... agency for a discount (which I got). Motto - if you don't ask you don't get! The other main reason for going to Tupiza was to arrange a 4 day tour starting in Tupiza and finishing in Uyuni, the highlight of which would be the Salar de Uyuni, the world's ...
Tupiza-Uyuni Trip - Day 1
Wake uuuuuup! With Amit we got up and went to get Brian and Johane, after which we dropped our bags at Alexandro's office. The breakfast at the market, standard: pasteles (kind of waffles with oced sugar) and their bolivian cofee: they distillate an ...
A cheval dans les canyons
De retour sur Tupiza le lendemain, nous faisons un petit tour a cheval de 3h pour voir les tres beaux paysages qui entourent la ville. C'est un decor digne des westerns, avec canyons, cactus et roches rouges. C'est aussi notre dernier jour en Bolivie, ...
Welcome to the wild wld west!!
... and vice versa. We arranged to meet that night for dinner. Following that, we listened to the All Ireland Hurling Final, strolled around Tupiza and then headed off for our horse ride. I got a wild fecking horse that tried to throw me off before we left ...
Air
... there is work enough... But we got back on the road, headed out of town, blowing past a toll booth - we know that in Bolivia, motorcycles are not required to pay tolls - so we just smiled and waved as we drove past the corrupt toll booth operator who ...
News
... nbsp;there has been snowfalls up there on the way, which is unusual at this time of year... anyway, we are waiting for confirmation. Today we went horseriding near Tupiza (3000m), the area is arid but beautiful. More to come... ...
irrfahrt
... die nacht auf ueber 4000 meter gemacht... es war kalt...selbst mit allen klamotten. Dann boese auf die kurz vor tupiza entgegenkommenden jeeps gestaart, mich dann ein bisschen besser gefuehlt. Aber zur reise selbst....bin am 22. losgetrampt...dann ...
Butch Cassidy Country
The most beatiful coloured rocks and winding rivers line this southern part of Bolivia as the start of the Quebrada de 7 colores starts (valley of 7 colours which stretches into Argentina). This is the province where Butch Cassidy saw his end. Figured ...
Tupiza Pish
... cereal, fruit, coffee, hot chocolate we set off into another canyon on horseback. We walked to the stables a short walk out of Tupiza....following the train line again. Everyone seems to walk along the train line......and I think there is only one train a ...
The wild (wild) west
... . The ride home, a 5 hour jeep ride (as we had become accustomed to), alnong bumpy dirt roads all the way back to Tupiza was equally exciting, the real hughlught being when the driver didn't turn a corner on the winding rode that wound its way in and ...
Tupiza and Bolivia Buses
We arrived in Tupiza after a gut rattling bus journey. Our first impressions of Bolivia was that we are going to like it here. You don't have to look very far to find tradition in this country, Its around every day. We spent two day hanging around the ...
The Lost Canyon
... gave up and retreated to our hostel to get ready for our early bus across the border into Argentina. Looking back on our time in Bolivia we had a fantastic time. It reminded us of India in some ways with how crazy it was, the poverty and bad food giving ...