La Paz Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

8th october 2009

Hostal Austria, la Paz, Bolivia (70 Bs)

lovely and warm in the sun

We are normally very punctual, I would even go so far as to say stupidly early, for departures etc, but the day we left lima breakfast took longer than we anticipated, the traffic was awful, I had some technical problems with my bike and dave...

Hi amigos, Tom, Chen and I took a nightbus to the famous Copacabana. Yeah in Bolivia (Editor's note: apparently it's the eponym for the infamous Copapacana in Rio. I don't see any obvious similarity). We spent one night there and then went to the Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca. Rumors say that this was the birthplace of the Incas. We visited the ...

We took the bus from Copacabana to La Paz on 21st July. La Paz is a very busy, polluted but fairly interesting city. We visited the famous black and witches markets (selling lucky llama fetusī and other lucky charms) and San Pedro prison (novel Marching Powder fame). Yesterday we went on a mountain bike ride with Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking...

..... I thought I was never going to get better! Hola this is Pablo with the latest instalment and a little insight into the joys (not) of appalling stomach cramps and fever after eating something that didn`t like me in La Paz. We left Copacabana on Sunday afternoon, and realised that we were only going to get one full day in La Paz. Suddenly th...

What a crazy city... you can buy anything you want from street vendors, just think of what you might need and like magic, exactly two and a half minutes later you'll pass by someone selling it ...even if it is a llama foetus. Buses come from the 40's and look like repainted American school buses and public transport rules... probably because peo...

Journey to LaPaz was interesting. Bus from Puno to border, then go through emigration, cross the border on foot with backpack in tow, go through immigration, Get on a minibus with bags on top to Copacabana, no time for lunch and one mini bus for all the companies to Lake Titicaca crossing. Disembark the bus, bus goes on one boat across, people o...

La Paz is a low lying sprawling city, easily confused with any uninspiring third world city. Suffice to say our stop here was for 2 days, with a specific intention to bike down the "Death Road". After a short briefing we were driven up to the snow peaked mountains surrounding the City, given a semi decent mountain bike and sent on our way down a...

After a 3 day pampas tour spotting caimen, capibarys and loads of brids and frogs we then headed into the jungle for a couple of days to get hot sweaty and bitten by ants although we did see loads of macaws and a "baby" tarantula the size of your hand. We then decided against the return bus journey and flew for 50 minutes from the jungle over a ...

Our first full day in La Paz: We set out to explore the historico area around our hotel, which is conveniently located next to the "Witches Market," and the "Museo de Coca". The Witches Market is a collection of small vendors, mostly old women from the Aymara tribe selling anything from clothing, to charms to ward off evil spirits, to my persona...

Well, when it came to the time to leave Copacabana, Tim still wasn't feeling too good, and the idea of sitting on a bumpy bus for the best part of 4 hours with no toilet stops wasn't a good one for him, so we splashed out (although in English terms it really was only a little) on a taxi to whisk us straight to the capital and our luxury five-sta...