Hotel Rosario la Paz

... , upon all the apparatus, to make it stop. At least for a while anyway. So we've packed our bags & checked out of Hotel Reality, to go wage battle with jungles, rivers, ruins, ball-busting merchants and language barriers. This is our Story.

... from Uyuni to La Paz, it was time to splurge on a nice hotel.  Compared to where we’d been sleeping, Hotel Rosario felt extravagant. High Times - La Paz La Paz really took us by surprise.  One of the highest cities in the world, we were ...

... of a giant valley and work your way down.  We departed the bus station and took a cab to our hotel, Hotel Rosario ( http://www.hotelrosario.com/la_paz_eng/index.html), at the bottom of the valley.  Every inch of hillside was covered with ...

... And then it goes down to the city. Funny enough, the lower you get in the valley, the richer the people. I lived in the hotel Rosario (very cute) right in the center of town (around 3600m), close to the witches and Black Market. The streets are full of ...

... of Bolivia (the administrative capital, Sucre is the judicial capital), and highest capital city in the world. We stayed in Hotel Rosario – which was very comfortable. The currency now changed to Boliviano's, shortenend to BOB, and it is about 6 ...

... was at its full compliment. Consequently our bus driver managed to find an unoccupied route 'around the back way'. Lucky us! Back at the Hotel Rosario with Boris (our best friend away from home) and Ximena. We're in for some last minute shopping at the ...

... heart of the city in the base and houses clinging to the cliff like mountainsides all around. We checked into the lovely Rosario hotel and went for a wander through the array of busy markets and alleys to visit some of the colonial buildings. After a ...

... meat on another street, the sweets on another street, the wedding stuff on another, and so on. We checked in early to our hotel, Hotel Rosario, which was quite nice. We had room 305 which faced the street and wasn't too much of a problem, and it was a ...

One the morning of our marathon flight to La Paz, Peru's incumbent President announced triumphantly that he had resolved all the striking miners grievances and all roads and border crossings to Bolivia are re-opened. Who knows what he has promised to ...

... only 3 months and there simply is not enough time to do or see everyting that S America has to offer. However, a trip to La Paz sounded cool, after all it`s the highest capital city in the world at 3660m and of course more altitude affected sleepless ...

... a hotel room where I could actually take my jacket off and still feel comfortable, and access to the internet.  Arriving in La Paz was overwhelming and exciting after days of seeing only one town of more than 1,000 people.  The city is ...

... ! To be frank for US$102 per night, is really is very good, itīs much cheaper than Gringo Bills! Just when you think La Paz wasn't worth the visit something happens to change your mind. There is a precession in front of our hotel, a couple at the ...

... the site has some amazingly huge monoliths remaining as well as the 44 tonne Puerta del Sol. We took a walking tour around La Paz city guided by a local to understand the culture of the city and its inhabitants.  Fascinating to hear about fairly ...

Sunday I flew from the tropical jungle part of Bolivia, back to La Paz which is strikingly different from Rurrenabaque in almost every way.  At the top of the list is the altitude, which made me quite dizzy for the first 3-4 hours...and slowly ...

... and motor it across. We all had to get out (thank god) there's no way we would have stayed in there! Another 4 hours and onto La Paz, highest capital city in the world at 4200m. A serious lack of oxygen here and the place is built in a valley so lots ...

... city center, a museum and the Valley of the Moon with crater-like formations made of sand. Sucre is the official capital but La Paz is the Bolivian centre of commerce, finance and industry, and the de facto capital. The streets are lined with market ...

After spending a couple days finding my way around La Paz, I signed up to mountain bike down the World's Most Dangerous Road, affectionately known as "The Death Road."  The WMDR is basically a one-lane dirt track that starts at 15,400 feet ...

... walked across the actual border we were accompanied by a marching band, I donīt think everyone gets this service! On the way to La Paz we called in at Copacabana (The place where the famous Copacabana is named after). It was a pretty little port but ...

... night, but otherwise started by last two weeks of travelling alone. I really missed the company of Marcus, Catrina and Tully, especially in La Paz - I don't think we were really done with the banter... :-) I'll have to come back to Bolivia some day - I ...