Hostal Naira La Paz

Well Erin and I have arrived in La Paz...a vey busy city with mountains surrounding.We took most of the day to get here.We had heard Bolivian buses have a bad reputation and today they proved it, all right!!!There has been the strike on one of the roads which diīdnīt help...but we set off from Copacabana at 10am and got to La Paz at 3.30pm...a bus ride that should take 3 hours!!We hd to cross 2 borders and went in and out of Peru 3 times I reckon...lots of stamps in the passport and also lots...

Hello All...well I have had an awesome day...Yes Mum I biked down the worlds most dangerous road and lived to tell the tale!!!
It was amazing...we had such a beautiful day.....we started at 4600ft and wound our way down to Coroico down in the plateau.I did it thru a company called Madness and it was great.I wish I could say that it was really hard and that I cheated death many times...but in fact it was pretty cruisy...mostly all downhill,so no peddling and we only passed 1 minivan(on the ...

26th to 27th April 2008 I arrived into La Paz at 0700 on the 26th after an interesting overnight bus travel from Uyuni. We left Uyuni around 8pm the previous night and the road was bumpy! Around 1am we had a toilet stop but when trying to leave, the bus could not be started. We had to transfer to another bus but alas there was not enough seats on it. So we had to get onto another bus. After all the upheavel we eventually arrived into La Paz. Shared a taxi with the guys from the Uyuni tour fro...

I arrived safely in La Paz, Bolivia on Wed morning around 5:45 AM. After 30-40 minutes of wandering around looking for a place to stay, I finally found the Hostal Naira, just steps from Plaza San Francisco and the main street (The Prado) through town. Wed was a bit of a blur as I was working on about 2 hours sleep and La Paz sits at an elevation of roughly 3500 meters (about 11,000 feet, and the airport was actually 1500 feet higher). I spent the day wandering around the town and trying to bo...

Mark 11/4 After a fairly long / brutal overnight flight from Rio to Sao Paolo (through a lightening storm), then on to Santiago, for a 5 hour stopover from 1am until 6am then on another flight via Iquique in northern Chile (right on the Atacama desert) we finally pulled into La Paz airport, which at 4050m above sea level left me with headspins going through passport control. Eventually they calmed down once in town but a walk up a gentle hill bought them on again, bring on the Inca Trail? Als...

Mark 20/4: Left Coroico and headed back into la Paz in our little mini van. The driver of the van had delusions of being a dog, as he drove half the time with his head out of the window to look what was coming (Val may be able to relate). The window was fairly clear, the road was going through the cloud, so all he really achieved in doing is swerving violently from 1 side of the road to the other. But he seemed to enjoy it. Funny thing about La Paz, alot of the shops have employed people to s...

We have arrived in the big bad city, lucky for us the bus stopped right on our road so we didnīt have to walk far with our back packs.

The hostel was luxuary compared to Copacobana, but they were less then friendly saying we had booked too late etc, but all was well and we got a twin room. We even had hot water in the bathroom 24hrs and not those silly electrical showers either, that Bolivia insists on having !!!! proper showers wow !!!

We wonder around La Paz looking for a tour...

The flight from Toronto to La Paz included a six hour stopover in Miami. The concept of sitting in the airport for six hours did not seem appealing, so we hopped a cab over to South Beach for a few beers and some dinner. Turned out to be a good call as all of the restaurants along the Ocean Drive strip were doing a 50% off dinner deal. With a couple of hours to spare we grabbed a cab figuring worst case scenario, there is no traffic and we sit at the airport for 90 minutes or so. Well, we did...

After a couple of days I think Iīm finally adjusted to the altitude, which is a good thing as weīre heading to Copacabana today which at 3800m is slightly higher than La Paz. Sunday was a lazy day as the altitude really took its toll. Bummed around the city some more and ended up catching the La Paz - Santa Cruz soccer game at the Olympic stadium, not the greatest level of play, but it was still fun. Ended up crashing early in order to get ready for the Worlds Most Dangerous Road. This bike t...

My next adventure was to climb Huayna Potosi, a 20,000 foot snow-capped mountain that towers over La Paz. Well, technically, it's 19,968 feet high - but there was a lot of snow on top of the peak, so we think we were at least 20,000 feet. The ascent can be done in two or three days; I chose three which is the "safer" option, giving me more time to acclimatize. The first day, my guide and I were driven to the base camp at 15,500 feet where we set up camp, had some lunch, and then hiked up 16,...