Hotel Calacoto La Paz

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Calle 13 # 8009 & Sanchez Bustamante, Calacoto La Paz, Bolivia, 8009, 2-279-2463

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Golf for the boys.....spa time for the girls

Leaving Copacabana on a so called Tourist bus was a complete laugh. There was more room on the local buses and at least they seemed to leave on time. Eventually setting off with the added bonus of the smell of canned tuna thanks to some fellow travelers, it was not the most auspicious of starts. We soon came to an unexpected hurdle of crossing Lake Titicaca. The bus was ferried across on a rustic looking barge which did make us wonder just how many crossings were unsuccessful. Us passengers w...

La Paz, Bolivia gareth.alanna
Avoiding the march

We arrived at the office of the agent in Copacabana that sold us our bus tickets at 13:00 for our 13:30 bus. At 13:30 with no sign of a bus Kingsley was getting anxious and when a crammed minibus arrived he started demanding a refund. Turns out the minibus was just to take us 5 blocks to the "real" bus. Much to our horror the bus did not look like what we were expecting, luggage on the roof and old and squashed. It was made worse by the antisocial passengers in front of us who were making tun...

La Paz, Bolivia kingsandems
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Yet another near-death experience...

... 2):<br>Went to the pickup point, go driven to the start of the ride and given my bike. I decided to use Gravity Bolivia because Lonely Planet blatently says they´re the best and most safe. I have to recognise that they bikes were grand (sull suspension, front &amp; rear disk brakes and so on) but the rest didn´t look particularly better than other companies. E.g. I saw some that provided elbow pads and helmets with full face protection.<br><br>First bit of the ride was on a sealed ...

La Paz, Bolivia bt82
Goodbye Potosi

... and green parks and we thought this was just wonderful. Spanish was lots of fun. We enjoyed wandering around the town, through the markets, sitting in teh squares. In Bolivian cities, all the stores of a certain kind, perhaps jewlery or furniture, are clustered together. We seemed to be staying on the street of the funeral homes, or funererias. We found some great places to eat and drink. It was a great city ...

La Paz, Bolivia emza
The highest blah blah... La Paz

Out of Buenos Aires again and made my way to La Paz over 68 hours.<br><br>Stopped in Salta for a 9 hour wait<br>Caught the midnight bus to the Argentina-Bolivia border.<br>Got ****ed over at the border for money.<br>Waited for 6 hours in the sun with a couple of Argentinans I met on the way with no shade in Villazon in Bolivia to catch the train. Got extremely sunburnt. As soon as I get to Bolivia, things change drastically. Streets ...

La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia olace
And in the Blue Corner....Yolanda!

... who put on a great show while kicking the guys´ asses and appealing to the underdog in us all. What a crazy show &#8211; like North American professional wrestling except even more ludicrous and over the top, kind of like an According to Jim holiday episode. For starters, the combatants, while all loudly outfitted to resemble a bafflingly diverse set of characters, were far from Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, or even while running for re-election. I would ...

La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia dinojay2
Laugh in the face of danger, or slide on my face!

... sea level. We were issued with our bikes, fantastic bikes as it goes, and safety helmets, gloves, bad ass goggles etc. Then the guide gave us all a briefing which was p`robably designed to scare everyone even more as he outlined the dangers and described the injuries, and fatalities, that had occurred in recent years, in fact accidents were quite common. Though to be fair it seemed as if you were sensible and did as you were told it was easy to stay alive! He desribed some ...

La Paz, Bolivia garyjampot
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... to tourists. I really wanted to see it (not inside though) since I read Marching Powder (an amazing book about an English mans incarceration there - I fully recommend reading it). I did manage to get a look through the main gate, into the courtyard where loads of prisoners were hanging around.<br> Other than that, it was an easy couple of days, spent relaxing and eating!<br>Then onto Lake Titicaca!<br>

La Paz, Bolivia trim_trimmer
Journey to the City in the Sky

... desk to check into, just gates... so panic started as we tried to work out how to get through security backwards to go and check in, anyway, after more attempts of Spanish, and a nice English speaking man, we were told there was a tiny desk that would open in a few hours... so we just went to waste more time (getting quite delirious now!)<br><br>Finally we went to check in and also to check our bags were on their way to la paz with us, and the man told us they had ...

La Paz, Bolivia nickiandal
Another day off!

We are going to Coroico today young Graham wants to ride the "Road of Death" a particularly dangerous dirt road that falls 3600 metres in 69km with no barriers and shear drops.<br>I have agreed to go along but will use the new "safer" route.<br>We head up yet again into mountains just when you thought you could go no higher, it gets colder and we hit the snow line. <br>We stop at a narcotics checkpoint, we haven´t got any ...

La Paz, Bolivia pearcy
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