Hotel Torino la Paz

... shop culture here - they are everywhere, serving great coffee and even better cakes for about half the price of Britain! I found Hotel Torino, opposite the cathedral, for staying the night. It's a bit of a hippy hostel - plenty of dreadlocks, scooby ...

... , and then thought that I should really head for some dinner. I have been struggling to find any traditional, Andean cuisine here in La Paz - although I can try the world's highest swiss fondue and the world's most dangerous vindaloo - so I Googled it. It ...

... back that evening. Amazing. The next day we decided to venture out to Tiwanaku which is an archeological site a few hours out of La Paz. Sounds exciting right? Wrong. We arrived and it was raining which didn`t help then all of the information about the ...

... but mostly entailed lots of reading.  We went for a stroll afterwards and found ourselves outside the famous "San Pedro" prison of La Paz with the prisoners heckling us to come over to them right by the main entrance.  We were neither in the ...

... but mostly entailed lots of reading.  We went for a stroll afterwards and found ourselves outside the famous "San Pedro" prison of La Paz with the prisoners heckling us to come over to them right by the main entrance.  We were neither in the ...

Going back to La Paz was a lot less traumatic this time, ie. no freezing overnight bus journey, & the extra hot showers at Hotel Torino were very welcome. I have to say I am a big big fan of the city with its penchant for crazy non stop bus services, ...

... was emblazoned with the Bolivian flag,  the museum of art and the huge cathedral. Eventually we found a coffee shop called Art Cafe Torino where we had a coffee and tried to plan our time on the Isla Del Sol as we had two days for the north and ...

I just came back from an incredible week in La Paz, the working capital of Bolivia, and highest capital in the world. We arrived on a buscama (bus bed) at 5 AM, and stumbled into the hostel my partner in crime, Charity, and I had found before. After ...

... day yesterday - I think the best day so far. Death Road is the most dangerous road in the world. Originally serving traffic from above La Paz (4700m) to Coroico (1100m), the road is no wider than 6m and has now, luckily, been bypassed, in favour of a ...

... Kopfweh von Larissa und eine relativ kurze und unbequeme Nacht. Tja, wir habens ueberstanden... Es geht uns gut in La Paz. Die Hoehe (4000m) vertragen wir zum Glueck problemlos. Die Stadt gefaellt uns sehr. Wir haben bereits lange Busfahrten durch ...

... . He welcomed us to the city, asked us for our names, and then directed us to a reliable cab. We are staying at hi-hotel Torino. It is right near the plaza in the centre of town, and has a crazy restaurant and simple but nice rooms. The internet here ...

... insisted on repeatedly playing a tape which consisted of classic American lovesongs sang in spanish at full volume. We got a cab to Hotel Torino where we met up with Rory and Aaron. They had been there 4 days already, and despite apparently attemptng ...

... to the altitude and hyper-bustle of La Paz after the sunshine and calm of Coroico. Especially since we knew that our hostel, Hotel Il Torino, was not going to honor the reservation payment we´d made online a couple months ago for a decent room. Indeed, ...

... I was able to control my bodily functions and eventually arrive at my hotel before things got messy. It was there, at Hotel Torino, where I met up with former schoolmate John Gilbreth, who has also been traveling through Brasil, Argentina, and Bolivia. ...

... at the airport for 3 hours, we all got in a collectivo (mini-bus) and came back to the main city area.  I got another hotel room and we went for a foot tour of the mercado´s until the others had to head back to the airport on the off chance ...

... 2 cups of tea. It´s been raining most of the morning and there are few people around.  The markets around the corner from the hotel are only just starting to set up for the boxing day sales at 11am. Merry Christmas everyone. See photo attached of my ...

... en we dus bepakt en bezakt op zoek moesten naar een hostal. Misschien niet de beste plek om dat te doen, La Paz is best groot....Eerst even gekeken bij Hotel Rosario (ken je dat nog Mieke?. wel veel gringo´s maar zat vol. Voor kerst nog wel plek voor 40 ...