 | A Walk on the Moon
2009-09-02, La Paz, Bolivia. By: travelalex | | When the bus was trundling along to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, we passed through the vast flat expanse of El Alto before it seamed like the ground just fell away, delivering a massive valley with... |
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 | La Paz
2009-07-05, La Paz, Bolivia. By: rossnkaren | | The journey to La Paz was different. Our bus travelled alongside Lake Titicaca for an hour or so and then pulled into a largish village/small town. Almost everyone got off the bus. Everyone apart from... |
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 | Bolivia!
2009-07-06, La Paz, Bolivia. By: wcaruso | | Well after a 6 hour delay in the airport in Cuzco, we finally made it to Bolivia! We got here on Thursday night and our hostel is huge! There's only 8 people in our room though which is nice, consid... |
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 | Worlds Most Dangerous Road
2009-07-05, La Paz, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | Yesterday we road "The Worlds Most Dangerous Road", otherwise known as "Death Road". We had read about it earlier, but decided not to do it...considering the name. But then when we told people we were... |
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| La Paz
2009-07-04, La Paz, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | Bolivia is amazing so far. It is absolutely gorgeous...and cheap! The currency here is about 7 to 1, so we are taking advtange of activities. There are mountains everywhere and the scenery is gorgeous... |
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| Bolivia
2009-07-02, La Paz, Bolivia. By: kwarne | | We finally made it to Bolivia! We decided to fly here since the roads are still closed from Peru to Bolivia. Our flight was a little more than we wanted to spend, but the only way here was a bus that ... |
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 | The World's Most Dangerous Highway
2009-04-13, La Paz, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | Quading in the Valley of the Moon
I use to say that to mountain bike you had to realize your limits, bike within them and trust your bike. I thought I could apply the same to quading and not get ki... |
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| Higher, Higher, Higher
2009-04-13, La Paz, Bolivia. By: frankieboy | | La Paz
Finally some decent beer in South America. Hostel has its own microbrewery. La Paz is the highest capital in the world. The airport is 4058 above sea level and you can notice as soon as you ge... |
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 | The Worlds Most Dangerous Road
2008-12-04, La Paz, Bolivia. By: GBrownlie | | After being in Bolivia for a day we found out about the worlds most dengerous road -
Starting high in the rarefied air of the Bolivian Andes at 4,700 metres, the steep and bumpy La Paz-to-Coroico r... |
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 | La Paz and Hotel Torino
2008-08-01, La Paz, Bolivia. By: pedrofletc | | Oh dear. No Western comforts.
La Paz is set in a deep Andean Valley and surrounded by the most appalling shanty towns. There are hardly any private cars but thousands of minibuses, each with a guy... |
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 | Where's all the oxygen gone ??!
2008-07-08, La Paz, Bolivia. By: cbr600f | | OMG, I can't breathe !! Here I am in La Paz, squillions of metres above sea level, actually when I got here I thought, "hey, this isn't so bad" ...but then I started actually walking. Bloody hell.
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 | Dried llama foetus and other delicacies
2008-01-31, La Paz, Bolivia. By: juliac | | We left Copacabana on Thursday morning, to head to La Paz. This involved an interesting river crossing, where we had to get off the bus and get a little launch boat across while the bus crossed the ri... |
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 | Where´d they come from???????
2007-05-18, La Paz, Bolivia. By: rossycaz | | A 3 - 4 hour bus journey yesterday from Copacabana and here we are in La Paz, the governmental capital of Bolivia and the highest capital in the world (3600m) and don´t our lungs know it! We´re stayi... |
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 | WMDR
2007-03-13, La Paz, Bolivia. By: vorn | | la paz is a crazy city where every street is a market. despite that i could not find one cobbler to fix my boots which have had a bit of a blowout, because apparently the soles are too big. surely som... |
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| Culture of La Paz
2007-01-27, La Paz, Bolivia. By: angbaxter | | Ended the tour in Uyuni, and boarded a bus to La Paz, which was supposed to be an 8 hour journey. 13 hours later we arrived. So here we are exploring the city of La Paz and enjoying its indigenous and... |
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 | Death Road
2006-12-03, La Paz, Bolivia. By: lindy | | Well, I decided that it would be a great idea to bike down the most dangerous road in the world today. It actually is, look it up. It´s this crazy road that´s about 45000 meters high and insane. So ... |
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 | La Paz - Santiago
2006-07-31, La Paz, Bolivia. By: mishiva | | At 4am that morning, our phone rang and we lugged out bags in the cold to the central bus terminal in the dark. At 6am, we began our journey through the antiplano towards Arica, Chile. On the way, we ... |
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 | STILL in La Paz
2006-07-30, La Paz, Bolivia. By: mishiva | | “What time do you think it is?” The sun breaking through the curtains stained the room in pale light
“The sun’s out and there are noises from the streets. It’s definitely past 5am!”
“I’m going to ch... |
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 | Tiwanaku
2006-07-29, La Paz, Bolivia. By: mishiva | | We clambered into a minivan and headed out to Tiwanaku; Bolivia’s most prominent archeological site. At Tiwanaku, we visited a couple of museums housing ancient artifacts of the Tiwanaku culture inclu... |
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 | Puno - La Paz
2006-07-28, La Paz, Bolivia. By: mishiva | | We got onto a bus in the early morning bound for Bolivia. The bus made its way East further inland to Huancayo. At the border, we got off to get our exit stamps from Peru and walked across the gates t... |
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 | Floating busses
2006-12-07, La Paz, Bolivia. By: lindy | | I have had a crazy past four days. It started when I decided to hop off the tour last monday for a few days to meet my friend Kristy in Copacabana, Bolivia. I waved down a collectivo on the side of ... |
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 | End of the Road
2006-10-04, La Paz, Bolivia. By: sauntering | | Fuck. This is it. The end of my trip. The stench of rotting garbage, fish and feces awaits me at the Peru-Bolivia border. It seems to reflect how I feel inwardly. I honestly believed I was going ... |
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 | 'B' is for....
2006-09-04, La Paz, Bolivia. By: lyndz | | Bastards, Belize, Bollocks, Bolivia...
Sorry about the language, and apologies in advance if this installment of our journal isn´t anywhere near as humerous and riviting as previous installments, ... |
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 | Crazy City
2006-05-24, La Paz, Bolivia. By: adeboy | | I have to say that I was pretty impressed with La Paz after being prepared by so many horror stories of Kidnappings and robbery.
A really vibrant city, ok pretty noisy and a fair bit of air pollu... |
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 | Top of the World...again!
2006-03-29, La Paz, Bolivia. By: hmakwana | | After Rio, our next stop was Bolivia. We landed in La Paz, the highest capital city in the world, at 3600 metres. The approach into La Paz was a beautiful one, with all the mountains surrounding the c... |
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