La Paz Hotels - Reviews and Rates

The bus from Peru to Bolivia was quite a bad experience. The driver was going flat out as fast as the bus could go. The quality of the road was fairly poor and the bus was in even worse shape so simply going at high speeds (over 100km in a 35km zone) was a bit scary. Then he decides to overtake a minibus with an oncoming coach approaching. He ba...

So after returning to dry land from our boat adventure we thought we were done with all this lake stuff. Wrong. To our surprise (not mentioned in our reliable guide books) our bus journey to La Paz got interrupted by a Lake crossing. For this we got ushered off the bus onto one raft whilst our bus followed on another raft. Looking back to our bu...

We arrived in La Paz late afternoon, after a bus and boat trip across the Peru-Bolivia boarder. The boarder crossing was strange to say the least.... we were chucked off the bus and had to go into a number of building to fill in forms and get passports stamped. As we walked across the actual boarder we were accompanied by a marching band, I don´...

Je me leve tot pour mettre a jour mon carnet. Nous dejeunons avec Charlotte dans le comedor en bas de chez elle puis partons avec Lucie dans le centre pour une glace et quelques emplettes. Les autres nous y rejoignent et nous les accompagnons pour louer du materiel d'alpinisme (ils partent demain pour le Sajama (6500 m), le sommet de la Bolivie)...

So here we are in La Paz, or rather here i (Nadia) am in an internet cafe writing up our blog while Chris is in bed ill in the hostel. We enjoyed a three day tour in Uyuni with four others in our jeep, two french girls and a swiss german couple who were good fun although the mx of languages was a challenge (english being mostly spoken however). ...

Happy Paddy Day After our free pancake breakfast we decided to take a walk around the markets. I picked myself up a few bargains. Bought a digital watch for £2 which has flashing techno lights on it - wicked! Also got myself a new pair of shades as my other ones had broken. These new ones cost me £1.80 and were Hugo Boss.....honestly, genuine Hu...

I had thought that simply buying a ticket for a bus journey in Bolivia was chaotic enough... Sue and I had panted up the hill to the bus station in La Paz where I had asked for a ticket for the Potosi bus, two days hence, only to be told that tickets are only sold the day before, so I would have to return the next day. After retracing our steps ...

We took an overnight bus to La Paz and tried our best to sleep, although as the roads were so bumpy it was more like sleeping on a rollercoaster, at least for the first 6 hours! When we arrived in La Paz we went straight to find a hostel. I had no idea La Paz was so hilly! Between the hills and the altitude we are dying! The first couple of days...

When you enter the city limits via El Alto, a large sprawling suburb of La Paz it quickly becomes clear that this is a densely populated city with a large portion of its inhabitants living in less than idea circumstances. The beauty of the city is only realised when you reach the outer edge of El Alto and get your first real glimpse of La Paz. N...

Hello all, Well we are still in La Paz, we havent done much since get here, except again, eat, drink, go out.....its a regular occurance now. When we arrived here it was like a Cusco reunion, there are lots of people in our hostel that were in the cusco one. I have finally bought myself a new camera, which is good, so i can take my own pics now....