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Local Buses La Paz
17 Reviews The crowded little vans cover the whole city. Each have numbers and a list of destinations. The destinations are not in order, so A to B often becomes A to Z, then T, thorugh R before getting to B...
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By plane La Paz
8 Reviews Fast, dramatic and scenic flight from Santiago to La Paz with one stop at Iquque is what LAN has to offer. I would take it again. The feeling of total devastation by the emotional highlights of...
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from Corumba in Brazil, long Traintrip first through the Pantanal,then the Gran Chaco, arriving in Bolivia and the sec. biggest City, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. A hustling and bustling City then..Friends picked my up at the Station and told me about the Rat who actually should have been a Guinea Pic.we flew from La Paz back to Brazilfor more info on the Gran Chaco, pop into my Paraguay Pagel
La Paz (El Alto) is the world’s highest airport. It is located 14 km southwest of La Paz city center.It is kind of scary and fascinating at the same time to see the Andes when taking off - what a sight! Due to the altitude, the thin air and the high mountains all around, the planes can not take too much fuel with them, so about 45 minutes later, we landed in Santa Cruz again to refuel!
We took a plane from Lima, Peru to La Paz. We flew across the snow-capped Andes and the blue Lake Titicaca. The view was breathtaking. La Paz is 3200 m in altitude. We took a taxi from the airport down to the city.In the city La Paz, we could walk around to many places. We then took a bus to Puno, Peru. It was the worst bus trip ever. The 'highway' of Bolivia was actually dirt road and in some section was covered with cobble stone (see picture!). Took us a whole day for the trip.
In order to conduct epidemiological surveillance in my intervention community, it was necessary for me to learn how to ride a motorcycle. I loved the motorbike, but I had a difficult time dealing with the dogs....who always seemed to attack!
There is no better way to enter Bolivia than by bus from Peru. You drive around Lake Titicaca en route and at least stop in Copacabana for an hour even if just on the way to La Paz. You have to get off the bus at the border and go through customs of both Peru and Bolivial It's a fun place to meet up with other backpackers traveling around the two countries. It's about five dollars from Puno in Peru to Copacabana in Bolivia.
Take a bus (Micro = the bigger ones = like old US-Schoolbusses) or Trufi ( these little Toyota (most of them) transporters) to almost every place inside cities of Bolivia. The prices you can find in the front window, but it´s always difficult to know which one is the right one. Normally it´s written as well in the front window, but who knows always the name of the districts or streets that are near to where you wanna go......so, it´s difficult to help here, you have to ask before or ask the second boy or man who´s always with the driver, they try to help normally (if ther´s time). You pay inside or when you are leaving the Micro/Trufi. You can stop these ones as well as taxis at every place, better at corners. To leave the bus just say e.g. at the corner ("escina") or "baja" (, that means "to alight").A taxi costs you between 3 and 10 bolivianos, depends how far you wanna go, ask for the...
The easiest way to get to Bolivia is by plane. There are direct 2 to 4 flights from the USA (Miami) to Santa Cruz every day. You can fly into Santa Cruz from almost all South America countries, Mexico and Panama. There are also direct flights to La Paz from Peru and Chile. There are no direct flights from Europe or Asia to Bolivia. Advise: LAB Bolivian Airlines has special deals that allow you to stay in Santa Cruz if it is your connecting city in an international flight; furthermore, some fares to Bolivia in LAB give you a free ticket for any destination within Bolivia. You can also fly into Santa Cruz with American Airlines.You can only get to Bolivia by Land from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru (and Paraguay depending on how is the road). The trains are very precarious and the roads are not all paved.Within Bolivia you can travel by bus within the following cities: Santa Cruz,...
Here's another fun and interesting way to get around Bolivia : flying the military airline. TAM (Transportes Aero Militares) is highly unreliable and sometimes the planes don't even show up. But sometimes they may be your only choice. If you have time (and a little money) to spare, consider hoping on one of their flights. I flew from the interior to La Paz on TAM to land in a military hangar. I stepped off the plane into a couple units of soldiers preparing for some drill or (ssshhh!) maybe some DEA sponsored operation. Let's just say I got to see a lot of interesting stuff- The kind of stuff you won't see flying American Airlines.
I flew to Bolivia from Brazil (after the Carnaval). There was some youth agency that gave discounts to students. It was way cheaper than the other agencies. I know of people that payed ~650$ for a flight I payed ~240$. Big difference - so it's worth asking around. There are also many ways arriving through roads from all directions. The transportation in convinient (but always much longer than the flight...). So it depends how much time you have and what you want to see.I used mainly busses and the train. From time to time it's worth taking an excursion and saving the worry of 'how to get there' and 'how do we return'. I recommand it in Uyuni, and from La Paz (the small day trips). To the moon valley in La Paz and other closer places we shared a cab with a few other tourists. Don't forget to bargain!
hahaha..by plane, to the highest international airport in the world EL Alto. the airport is a lot higher than the city at an amazing 4082 metresTaxis in the city..however the city is best seen by walking, some streets are extremly steep, some cobbled like Jaen st (you could almost be in Spain)If you are not on an organised tour there are express coaches to most destinations.The photo is our minibus crossing Lake Titticaca by raft !!
Residencial Rosario La Paz
7 Reviews and 211 Opinions Hotel Rosario is pretty nice. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The rooms are very clean and...
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Q: Hi. Can anyone help me with the best way to get from La Paz to Salar de Uyuni to Arica? We plan to take a 2-4 day tour in...
A: Anna, I don't actually know how to do it but when I did the Salar de Uyuni tour in 2003, there was a Dutch couple that got off at the little station near Laguna Blanco...
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