Central Guest House La Paz
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Obispo Cardenas 1451- prolongacion calle Potosi, Entre Calle Bueno Y Loayza La Paz, Bolivia, 70127
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So we took another night bus from Sucre to Cochambamba but this time it was not too bad. Our seats reclined fully, the roads were better and it was a good temperature in the bus. We did however, arrive in Cochabamba a tad early (as has been our habit) at 7am and again, found a good hostel and we were able to get some more sleep right away. Cochabamba is not the most touristy town in Bolivia but it was a good stopover for us between Sucre and La Paz and we certainly did not want to go to Santa...
Cochabamba, Bolivia bharris4
A nightmarish bus trip of bumps and unsealed road threw us into a dark town at some ungodly hour and shifted us to another bus for the remainder of the trip. A trip from hell as Bolivian buses were born without bathroom facilities and to stop, one has to knock on the driverīs door and request a nature visit. This is not so wonderful for females as often the landscape is quite bare and I am not one to ībareīso I had to hold, for a very very very long time. I made it I am happy to say. Just. We...
La Paz, Bolivia jspen
So we are back in the big smoke. La Paz is so huge compared to where we have been recently, it is a little overwhelming. We caught the bus from Copacabana yesterday at about 1:30 and arrived here around 5pm. The bus journey was nice and uneventful, although we did have to get off the bus, jump in a speedboat (in appearance only) and cross the lake separately from our bus. The bus was driven onto a large wooden raft and punted across accompanied by a man with long pole. At least that gave me a...
La Paz, Bolivia lingo83
Nothing like the presence of a market sale of baby llama feotuses to realise your a long way from home. These are good luck apparently if you place them under your house. Unfortunatley owning one llama feotus but no house brings no luck. Homeowners have all the fun in La Paz. I couldnt bargain the street vendor down to an appropriate price for the feotus that I liked, so I passed. Besides the exotic, La Paz had some fantastic shopping. Lots of alpacca rugs and ponchos and socks and jumpers. I...
La Paz, Bolivia rsaville
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... would let us sleep in a bed before 2 pm. The best part of it was when we hailed a taxi, agreed on a destination and price, put our bags in the trunk, climbed in and started driving. About half a block later, he saw some other toruists, who apparantly he liked better, because he pulled over, deposited our bags on the curb before we even understood what was happening, and told us to take a different taxi, and took ...
La Paz, Bolivia emza
... suspicious at first, I had been warned about bogus policeman and unmarked taxis but these were genuine, or at least I hoped. We paid 5bs and after crawling through the busy Saturday market traffic we were dropped off outside one of the hotels in the centre, Elstello Andean, on Calle Llampu. Inside the hotel we were shown a nice looking room with three beds but no private bathroom. It was a nice hotel and had wifi but at 210bs per night was much more than we were used to ...
La Paz, Bolivia casebrownfamily
... journey. What I hadn't expected though was that he would take the same road back...Its a lot more hairy sat in a jeep looking over the edge and having to stop and maneuver when something is coming the other way...
I will let Gill update you all on her needlecraft day some other time. We are now packing to head off to the Amazon so will be out of contact for a week or so.
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... terminal. Got a hotel nearby (Hostal Copacabana) - small room (the bathroom door hit the bed) but great view of the street!
Monday night strolled around the main plaza and street market (mercado). La Paz seems like it has more people than Lima, but I think itīs just because La Paz is in a valley surrounded by mountains and the people are in the street īafoot.ī Hard to imagine, but the pollution is even worse in La Paz ...
... fella Gaston. Was quite an interesting chap in that he hated football and disliked Mate, the Argentinian herbal tea drinking ritual, sound fella though and his English was far superior to my Spanish. After sleeping through breakfast with a pounding head we took a stroll around the lake and booked our tickets to Arequipa (Peru) for the following day. Had another 3 course lunch although I got more than I bargained for when I found a drawing pin in my Spag Bowl, no tip for you fella!
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Took the bus on Monday morning from Copacabana to La Paz. Wonderful views of Lake Titicaca...I canīt even begin to describe the Lake. Itīs magic (for me) - I felt more inner peace and joy there than I ever have. I may have found my future retirement home =) Assuming I can finally understand/speak Spanish, haha!
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