Ocean la Paz Hotel

... sits on the Bay of La Paz, adjacent to the Baja Ferries terminal, and is about 4 miles north of the actual town of La Paz.  The location isolates it from town, but they are always willing to shuttle people in if you so desire.  That would make ...

... walls blocked everything so they had no noise at all. That Saturday, we decided to explore some of the beautiful beaches around La Paz that everyone raves about. We hopped in the Jeep and headed out to Playa Tocolote and Playa Balandra. Tocolote is a ...

... gateway to the Amazon in Bolivia.  We are flying in on Tuesday and doing an eco-friendly tour in the pampas. Walked around La Paz a bit more and achieved not much.  We found the "witches market" which is really pretty much the same crap that ...

We get an early start back to La Paz this morning, but before leaving Huatajata we spend some time exploring the open-air museum attached to our hotel. There we see llama and alpaca, and even one vicuna. This is also the place where the Limachi family ...

... diving and snorkelling but the sea was too rough to snorkel. I haven't yet been able to snorkel again since I realised I loved it in La Paz!  We walked along the beach and had some lunch whilst watching some of the world cup. We got back in the car and ...

... a lot hotter, or maybe the shocking contrast between the airco building and outside temps of 40C. It had gotten quite hot.    La Paz is a city which at least is trying to have some charm. So we decided to stay a week. We attempted to reach ...

... at the capital City (La Paz) which we were to visit at the start and end of our Bolivian adventure. La Paz  - visit 1. We were staying at a small charming hotel called Hotel a La Maison. It was basic but friendly and clean. We had 1 clear day to ...

... ride down from the top to the bottom, hence why they didn't miss her until the head count at the bottom. Anyway, after a quick La Paz orientation walk, we caught a taxi to a Thai restaurant, where I think I had the best green chicken curry I have ...

... I answered his questions and opened my bag, he waved us by.  We rode into La Paz around 5 p.m. and proceeded to locate a hotel.  La Paz is a nice peaceful little town on the Sea of Cortez.  It reminds me of some of the towns on Mallorca, ...

... most of it in around two hours, and before we knew it were in a taxi driving into the centre of La Paz.   We really hit paydirt with the hotel; The Suite Mision, selected only for it's location from the Lonely Planet. Slap bang in the centre of ...

... , we crawled into a minibus and continued by land to La Paz.  This journey was incredible especially navigating the outskirts of La Paz which every car in the world appeared to be and none of the drivers respected any traffic light (they were obviously ...

... the shore it really just looks like you´re standing on the edge of a very flat, plain ocean.  From Copocabana we visited the Bolivian capital, La Paz where Tori continued to recover from her bout of sickness. One thing that is great about Bolivia ...

La Paz, Potosi, Solar de Iuyni, Altiplano/Salt Flats - Christmas LA PAZ: Back to the city. It`s now the 20th of December and people are starting to talk of Christmas. The decorations go up on the truck and secret Santa presents are starting to be ...

... we took a tour around the city where I took a lot of the pictures that I'll attach to the blog.  I loved the atmosphere of La Paz because it felt like a big city compared to Cochabamba, which had come to feel like a small town.  And.. in ...

... a few local Bolivian tunes rather than the usual middle of the road repertoire.   With a free afternoon, and the centre of La Paz being quite walkable, we don a city map and head off back to the main square which was a bit more sedate following ...

... , who has lived here for more than 24 years.  We had lunch with her yesterday (the 15th) at her restaurant just outside of La Paz and tonight we are going back for dining and dancing at her restaurant, the Club Marlin. This is a very special place, ...

... had to get off and pay to sail across in a little boat, but the locals got to stay on the bus! Wierd but wonderful La Paz Bolivia is a weird place, a place where after a while the out of the ordinary is taken for granted. Its capital, La Paz is ...

... ticket home, a slick 45 minute flight on a tiny 10 person plane...some things are worth spending money on!  Back in La Paz, and Adventure Brew Hostel for the 3rd time, we spend another couple of days unwinding after our amazon adventure.  ...

... .   We then got on a bus to La Paz.  Long beautiful bus ride, including an unexpected ferry ride across the lake.  La Paz is the highest city in the world, and it's actually in a valley, actually it is the valley, it fills the whole ...

... a testament to my new stomach of steel, gracias a Mexico. I was pleased to once again be in a warm hotel as I traveled south into Bolivia. La Paz sits in a valley surrounded by the Andes. It is a sprawling, chaotic capital. Much like other Latin ...