Hotel Calacoto La Paz
Calle 13 # 8009 & Sanchez Bustamante, Calacoto La Paz, 8009, Bolivia
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De Desaguadero a La Paz, Bolivia
Será que vai chegar uma hora nesta viagem em que eu não vou mais me extasiar com a paisagem? Quase na fronteira, vejo umas rochas dobradas verticais (foto), passo por um planalto lisinho nas margens do Titikaka, e, de repente, La Paz, dentro de um buraco arenoso e colorido, com um vulcão nevado ao fundo, o Illimani, que se vê de vários pontos da …
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 …
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 …
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Time to party
... and Peru. The other markets were made up of mostly indigenous Bolivians selling anything from fruit, to clothes to cows hooves, with the ladies all dressed in their traditional outfits.
A highlight of La Paz was going to watch the wrestling in El Elto. While there were a few tourists there, there were also a suprising number of locals there with their family who got rather into this WWF type show. Just listening to the crowd, in particular the children’s, reactions to ...
Gringos in Bolivia
... was screeching breaks shattering of glass then a loud bang. I thought we were still on the mountain pass and was preparing for the bus to go rolling down a hill but luckily for us the driver has just ran into a truck in front of us that had stopped. Luckily no-one was hurt. The bus wouldn´t start and we could hear the hiss of air leaking from the engine when they tried to put the bus into gear. We thought there is no way we would be continuing ...



