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Copacabana and Isla del Sol

Off to Bolivia! After yet another short stop in Cusco, we first took the bus back to Puno to continue on to the Kasani border at Lake Titicaca. The immigration process was super...

La Paz

La Paz as well. Puhhh. What a city and how incredibly difficult it is to somehow bring the impressions to paper in an orderly manner. This is really a challenge, and I don’t...

La Paz II

Valle de la Luna - supposedly got its name from Neil Armstrong, who played golf in the area

La Paz - Long Live Bolivia

Finally arrived! On the way to La Paz, the highway was suddenly blocked. Supporters of former President Morales want to force his return to the presidency (despite sexual...

Rurrenabaque

After a week in La Paz, I wanted to realize the plan that was still buzzing in my head and travel back to Potosi for a few days to visit the mines. Logistically, it was absolute...

At Lake Titicaca

View from Isla del Sol

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El Condor in La Paz :)

Death Road

Right after my arrival in La Paz late in the evening, Nim informed me that she had booked a tour for us tomorrow down the legendary Death Road on bicycles. We had discussed this...

Reality of long-term travelers in La Paz, Bolivia

La Paz. We have been here for almost a week now. What have we seen so far? Not much, because since we arrived in Bolivia, our stomachs have been struggling with the food, water,...

Bolivia: La Paz and Lake Titicaca

From Guayaquil we flew to Bolivia via Bogota and arrived in Santa Cruz at night. After one night there, we went straight to La Paz, where our stay in Bolivia really began. Upon...

Are you familiar with this one? An Austrian is standing in Bolivia...

Early in the morning, bus station in La Paz. The day has hardly awakened yet, and calls are enticing the sleepy passengers here too. I don't understand a word. The usual...

Into the Bolivian Jungle

We think it's a good idea to avoid the night bus over the bumpy road to Rurrenabaque and instead take a minivan from Coroico. However, we didn't calculate that our drivers would...

In the jungle the mighty jungle the jaguar hunts tonight…

10.10.-13.10 The journey continued westwards, into the deep jungle of Bolivia. As a big animal lover (and a fan of all documentaries with David Attenborough!!), I was really...

From La Paz to Isla del Sol (Titicaca Lake) and back...

Would you like a little bit more (plate #1 & #2)

Day 28 to 31 between border control, islands and La Paz

Day 28 Fortunately, the border control went smoothly. A small downside was the QR registration for importing goods into Bolivia. The bus company wanted the pre-registration. But...

From Peru to Bolivia to Lake Titicaca

With the night bus on the 6th to the 7th of November 2022 from Cusco (Peru) to Copacabana (Bolivia, not Brazil). We are woken up at around 5 o'clock to change buses in Puno...

Bolivia (Copacabana, Isla del Sol, La Paz, Salar de Uyuni)

Hello friends, we continued our journey first to Puno, our last stop in Peru, and from there to the Isla de los Uros, floating islands on Lake Titicaca (altitude: 3,800m, size:...

Huayna Potosi

Huayna Potosi

Stories about La Paz

Our short trip through Bolivia led us 'forcedly' through La Paz, where we spent two nights. La Paz is not the capital of Bolivia, but the political center. Therefore, our...

La Paz I

which were at times super exotic and often appeared Asian in style. It's worth mentioning - even though we didn't see it ourselves - the Bolivians' fondness for wrestling. Here,...

Traveling from Cusco to La Paz via Lake Titicaca (Bolivia)

On January 4th, we set off from Cusco to La Paz. Little did I know that Bolivia would be the country that not only liked the least but also almost made me want to catch the next...

Bolivien - Death Road

Today we're off to Death Road mountain biking because we're such professionals (not) and Norman raved about it so much. Death Road is also known as Yungas Road. The Death Road...

Again La Paz

10.12. Without breakfast we drive the remaining two hours to La Paz in the wealthy district of Calacoto where we have to return our car in two days. Calacoto can be compared to...

Long live peace!

Thursday morning I was ready to set off. For four days, I had been preparing for the journey ahead, taking a PCR test, making copies of documents, and filling out online forms....

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08.29.-05.09. - La Paz, Bolivia

Our trip to La Paz (Bolivia) was actually supposed to take place on August 28th. start at around 10:00 p.m. in the evening. However, I gave the wrong date when booking the bus,...

13/03/2023 to 14/03/2023 - La Paz / Bolivia

We drove through the city of El Alto, which until 1985 belonged to La Paz, to our next city destination. From here, we already got the first impressions of La Paz - full and...

La Paz Day 1 - stranded

Monday 16.03. We had an appointment at 10 o'clock with the chief of police of Bolivia. Here at the police headquarters, too, it was a matter of high importance due to the Corona...