Hotel Andes La Paz

Marco Kapac La Paz, Bolivia

TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel Andes La Paz

“Excellent location, good connections with local tour guide.”

randprtw11 3 contributions
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May 13, 2011

Excellent location, good connections with local tour guide, helped us organise rurrenbaque and kept our bags safe while we were away

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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Andes La Paz

La Paz

A travel blog entry by andrewsinclair

After a long flight from London, England via Miami, Florida we eventually landed in one of the highest cities in the world, El Alto at 4150 meters (13,615 feet) above sea level. From the plane window all you can see is a mass expanse of buildings stretching into the distance (it is actually 2 cities side by side, with no clear boundary). Climbing …

Dizzy heights of La Paz

A travel blog entry by randprtw11

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After the horrendous previous trip from Sucre we decided to go a little upmarket on a Cama bus for the 14 hour journey to La Paz, we got slightly more sleep but a toilet stop at 2:30am did not help. The toilet stop was necessary because they locked the toilet on the bus! Locking it however was unnecessary because access was impaired by several …

CSI Copacabana

A travel blog entry by thesmiths2010

29

We made it over the border and into Bolivia, Copacabana in Bolivia is not to be mistaken with the crazy Brazilian town of the same name. This place is pretty quiet and chilled out right on the edge of lake Titicaca. Although quiet we still got set upon by ‘Mr Ponytail Spanish’ trying to help us find a place to stay. We could not shake …

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Time to party

A travel blog entry by abpotter2011

5

... Hopefully this is a taste of what is to come in Argentinia!

La Paz had many interesting markets and it was great just to wander and people watch through these. The 'witches' market could have been renamed the tourist market as it had a few token llama fetuses which we were told bring good luck if you put it under your door when you first move into a home (what disturbed me was how they got the fetuses!) but other then that it was mostly tourist stuff sold everywhere else ...

Gringos in Bolivia

A travel blog entry by janakaemma

18

... booked. After we finally got on the bus a Canadian lady was told one of the toilets on the bus wasn´t working so she was walking up and down the aisle saying in her canadian accent ´´this bus is a f....... nightmare!´´ Hilarious for us but not for her!

The bus ride got even better, early in the morning I woke to the bus swerving around sharp corners going over a mountain pass. We tried to ignore this and got back to sleep. The next thing ...