Hostal Torino La Paz
Socabaya 457 La Paz, Bolivia
TravelPod Member ReviewsHostal Torino La Paz
“´s ok”
tbienek 5 contributions
Australia
Dec 24, 2010
Handy to main plaza and everything else, but no stars.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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La Paz
Going back to La Paz was a lot less traumatic this time, ie. no freezing overnight bus journey, & the extra hot showers at Hotel Torino were very welcome. I have to say I am a big big fan of the city with its penchant for crazy non stop bus services, drivers yelling the destinations incoherently out of the windows, the amazing range of ice cream on …
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Nach einer abenteuerlichen 10-stündigen Fahrt im total überfüllten Nachtbus, eingequetscht wie die Sardinen in der letzten Reihe, erreichten wir um 4 Uhr nachts endlich Sucre - und standen vor verschlossenen Türen. Die Nachtportiere wiesen uns reihenweise ab. Schließlich fanden wir doch ein kleines bescheidenes Domizil. Sucre ist eine sehr schöne …
Llama foetuses anyone?
Arrived in La Paz following a 12 hour train ride and a 7 hour bus ride where the driver insisted on repeatedly playing a tape which consisted of classic American lovesongs sang in spanish at full volume. We got a cab to Hotel Torino where we met up with Rory and Aaron. They had been there 4 days already, and despite apparently attemptng to leave …
The Beauty and the Beast (by KCT)
Bolivia is just amazing! When we planned our trip months ago, we thought that we would just cross Bolivia in order to get from Brazil to Peru, but we ended up staying 29 days in that country! And if it wasn't our visa which only allowed us to stay 30 days in Bolivia, we would have stayed so much longer! For example, we ended up to stay 10 days in …
I never thought that I liked big cities so much.
Our last night in Uyuni was fun. We went to a pizza restaurant listed in the lonely planet with our 2 Canadian friends. An American opened up ¨Minuteman Pizza¨ and it was amazing. It was quite the nice little break from Bolivia if I do say so myself. We took the train from Uyuni at midnight today, and arrived in Oruro at about 8 am. From there we …


