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Blog: Viva Latin America! - 30 December 2010
Our second day in La Paz was given over to the infamous Death Road trip. We had done our shopping around the day before and discovered that prices for tours can vary from 430 to 580bols ($61.78-$83.33). We decided to stay away from the super cheap companies due to concerns about safety and general reliability. We looked [...]
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La Paz – Impressions
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 29 December 2010
Arriving in La Paz at 05:30 after five weeks in a tropical climate did not create a favourable first impression. Unfair, I know, but after temperatures that rarely went under 28oC even at night La Paz seemed a little cold and unfriendly. After arriving at our accommodation, we promptly wrapped ourselves in lots of clothes [...]
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Video: Climbing Huayna Potosi
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 December 2010
Huayna Potosi from Mat' Not'Geul on Vimeo.Ascension du Huayna Potosi et de ses 6088m par l'équipe féminine franco-québécoise de niaiseries internationales.
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Vegetarian Survival Guide to Bolivia
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 16 November 2010
We heard from other vegetarians who had travelled through Bolivia that we’d be eating a lot of egg and chips (unfortunate as we don’t like eggs), and have to put up with finding bones in supposedly vegetarian soup. It didn’t sound promising.
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4 Of The Most Dangerous & Crazy Roads Around The World
Blog: As We Travel - 17 October 2010
Traveling equals a lot of time spent using different kinds of transport. In New Zealand we spent 60 hours traveling around on buses.
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As easy as riding a bike. The world’s most dangerous road, La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 20 August 2010
“If you go over the edge you have no hope of surviving. You fall for around 600m before you even reach anything you can grab onto.” “At points the road only stretches across for 3m before ending in a sheer cliff face and a drop of around 1,000m.” “Sometimes trucks and buses just come out [...]
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Smelly, dirty, lovely La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 16 August 2010
Although La Paz is more likely to wake you up with a hangover and a chestful of fumes than pancakes with a side of bacon, it is an abolutely intoxicating city. Actually I think insane is the only word to decribe a place that is so simultaneously inviting and intimidating that it has to be [...]
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Frostbite up Huayna Potosi - well, not quite...
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 12 May 2010
For those that like their mountains lofty, there is a popular one not far from La Paz that you can have a crack at. The prize, if successful, is standing on the summit at a grand total of 6,088m above sea level – that’s getting on for 20,000 ft! Just imagine the views…
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Downhill on the Death Road - Bolivia
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 11 May 2010
"Cycle the Death Road." The very name may make some question the sanity in going on such a tour. For others it will draw them like a moth to a flame. We weren’t quite in the moth category but that was mainly down to the price of the tour. For a day tour, not to mention for Bolivia, a tour on the death road is a little pricey. But then, how can you go to La Paz and not give it a go?
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La Paz - Bolivia
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 9 May 2010
It was an extremely long and eventful journey from Copacabana. The driver informed us that a diversion would be necessary as a little town on the way was blockaded for a demonstration against the local mayor’s landfill policy. There’s no doubt about it, they take their politics seriously out here!
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La Paz – The Coca Museum
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 May 2010
South Americans, and Bolivians in particular, can be a bit defensive about coca. They feel that this poor little plant has had rather a rough deal, and just because you can make one of the world’s most addictive drugs out of it doesn’t mean it’s all bad. After all, South Americans have been chewing the [...]
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Worst Night EVER. II.
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 8 May 2010
4/28/10: La Paz, Bolivia Yesterday’s post left off with the two of us slumbering happily in our cama seats, me curled up on the window side and covered with our new blanket that we bought in Sucre. Things were going wonderfully. I was dreaming about fruit salad. I was just about to take a bite [...]
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Day 83: Who said Bolivia was dirt cheap?
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 5 May 2010
Calle Jaen - the most beautiful street in La Paz. Like Quito, the barrio clings to the mountainside in the distance. After a day in the capital, we set off on an overnight journey to Potosi, a small colonial town towards the south of Bolivia. The bus ride felt like a night in the ice hotel. We were the only foreigners and came well prepared with all our warmest clothes. But having seen how
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Cusco, around Lake Titicaca, and on to La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Trip Down - 29 April 2010
After Machu Picchu we returned to Cusco for a night. At the Norton’s (Rat) Pub on the plaza we met Micha, Igor who I met in Medellin and Chessi who I’d been riding with in Equador and Peru. On Saturday morning we left Cusco driving out through the bedraggled end of city and into the [...]
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A spike in the journey: my Bolivian hospital stay
Blog: Cogs Watch - 5 January 2010
I try to embrace the good and the bad when traveling, you come to expect it. This philosophy was certainly put to the test in La Paz. I was unlucky enough to have my drink spiked on Boxing Day resulting in my being whisked off to hospital and placed on a drip and pumped with diuretics for the night and the whole of the following day.
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Christmas in La Paz
Blog: Cogs Watch - 5 January 2010
We wanted to be in a big city for Christmas so we could be with other orphan travelers, so we headed to La Paz. La Paz is a beautiful city to look at. Surrounded by mountains it cascades down like a filter, the CBD and a few high rises are the epicentre. This means a lot of uphill walking.
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Welcome to Bolivia!
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 1 November 2009
We passed our last night in Peru over a great dinner of cuy (guinea pig), alpaca steaks and a pretty bad litre of red wine. Guinea pig is actually quite tasty, but then again most anything that is fried tastes nice. My entree was accompanied with nice little quinoa croquettes and huacaina sauce. It [...]
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Failing to die on the Death Road
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 16 October 2009
There are certain things one does when traveling that it’s probably best my mum doesn’t know I’m doing them til afterwards. Cycling down the World’s Most Dangerous Road (© the Inter-American Development Bank), aka the Death Road, is one of them. The road gets its reputation from the days when it used to be the main [...]
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Wrestling – Bolivian Style
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 15 October 2009
As I noted in my second ever post, well before my trip started, I have a strange obsession with Mexican Wrestling. And so I was gutted when swine flu put paid to my chances of getting to see some while I was there. So of course I was over the moon when I found out [...]
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La la lovely La Paz
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 21 September 2009
I was a bit wary about going to La Paz, despite the white flag the name of this city appeared to be waving at me. It seemed that I was setting myself up for an extra concentrated shot of all the usual Bolivian concerns-food, altitude, theft and dodgy taxi drivers. But it is Bolivia´s capital, and it is a necassary stop-over on the way to Peru, and hence I knew that I couldn´t leave Bolivia without giving it a shot, so one more overnight bus ride later I found myself emerging from my cosy sleeping bag at dawn to a see thousands of lights twinkling up the mountains around me.
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The Witches Market in La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 6 August 2009
The markets in La Paz, Bolivia, like many places, are an essential part of the culture and a vital part of the city. In La Paz, there are a number of markets that stretch across the city where one can buy just about anything. There are several food markets, a flower market, an artisans’ market and even a black market where you can buy bootlegs and Polo shirts for the equivelent of 2USD. However, the most interesting market and one of the more unique sights in La Paz is the ...
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The Unexpected Value of a Painting
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 7 July 2009
By Nilima Achwal, KF8 Bolivia On my second day in La Paz, I braved the high altitude and made my way to Calle Sagarnaga, the main tourist shopping street. As I trudged up the slippery cobbled street, a skinny middle-aged man carrying a folder easily kept pace beside me and urged me to take a look [...]
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