La Paz Lodges - Reviews and Rates

10th october 2009

Hostal Austria, la Paz, Bolivia

Very warm

We're enjoying being in la Paz, despite the number of kms and altimetres we scale each day just to get from A to B! Up till now we have been doing catch up things, like having laundry done, getting a haircut, (I was desperate) buying long cycling tights and a pair o...

Tomorrow Rachel and I board bus for Lima. It takes 26 hours.

We have a bus with layback seats, onboard food, airconditioning and heating and everything we need to be comfy this time. No more school buses! We are sitting up top right at the front so we can get a good view of the land.

Hopefully we can upload some pictures in Lima. <...

In the rainforest termites taste like chocolate mint......I am told. In La Paz, tradesmen line the streets with their work satchels in front of them indicating they are a plumber, painter, electrician and so on. Jaguars(the animal kind), look like leopards on steroids. Magnificent looking creatures. Sad news.....passed a meat store in La Paz nam...

The journey from Sucre was mostly pretty rubbish, until the last hour or so when I could see the countryside of Bolivia through the window of the bus and remembered why I'd decided to visit this country. There were rolling hills as far as the eye could see, and not just little hills. We're basically in the foothills of the Andes here. so we're t...

Well hello there! Ok, so this is gonna be a big one. It's been a while, sorry! Oh and it's already late. Can I really be bothered? Yes. I can. 1, 2, 3....go. So after my last update, it was a pretty plain old boring week of boring nothing to do placement except read for my classes in Geneva. So a girl called Claire, from Nyon (20 mins from Switz...

--------------------- Un petit mot dedie a Tonton... C'est dur d'etre loin quand des choses difficiles se passent dans la famille.... Je suis triste de ton depart... je suis contente d'avoir pu te parler avant mon depart de voyage... j'espere que tu n'as pas trop souffert.. j'ai beaucoup pense a toi pendant tes derniers jours... et puis je pense...

i arrived in the capital of bolivia two nights ago accompanied by a friend from Greece i met on the island of the sun. it was sad to say goodbye to the beauty of the island but christmas shopping had to be done and what better place than la paz. it´s a nice enough city, not necessarily ugly or pretty, but the general feeling is comfortabe. they ...

Hola mis amigos We were up early on Monday morning to catch the 3-hour bus ride to La Paz. La Paz is the de facto capital of Bolivia, with the central government operating within the city, it also happens to be the world´s highest elevated capital city. According to our sources, Bolivia is famous for having the highest of everything, although no...

Today we drove from Puno to the border of Peru & Bolivia....interesting experience! We had to get off the bus go to the immigration office and then walk over the border into Bolivia. Our guide had to pretend he did not know us as they would extort money from him for being a tour guide, but even by himself he still got taken for 70 Soles whic...

My 4 months in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia have really been fantastic. I've definitely had my highs and lows, but the highs have outnumbered the lows by far. There were so many highlights - the incredible group of people in Vilcabamba, both border crossing experiences, Kuelap, my jungle trips in both Ecuador and Bolivia, the Nazca lines, the Sala...