Peace is a city of Bolivia.
La Paz is one of the highest cities in the world, seat of the Government of Bolivia, stranded between 2,900 and 4,200 meters high. Arriving from the altiplano, one suddenly discovers, at the foot of the majestic peaks of the Andes where the snow-capped peaks culminate at more than 6000 meters, a huge hollow. It is a troubled metropolis in which more than a million and a half souls move.
An indigenous city, La Paz is today the undisputed capital of the country: the center of government, of the powers of the state, of the church and of cultural life, it is also the most populated urban center, in conurbation with the city of El Alto .
It is an enigmatic city where the modern and the ancestral, the western and the autochthonous, the Hispanic and the indigenous intermingle, in a set in which harmony is often absent. Eminently mixed and contrasted town. From the district of markets, rainbow of colors and smells, it is necessary to cross just a few streets to be deposited in the heart of the historic center, converted into a business center. Two worlds indifferent to each other, that coexist 200 meters from distance and in which the only common point is the permanent and boisterous chaos that characterizes them.
Understand
To get
By plane
La Paz has the El Alto International Airport that serves the cities of La Paz and El Alto for its domestic and international flights and cargo transportation. However, this is not the most important in the country, the high altitude at which it is located constitutes a difficulty for this air terminal.
By train
Railroad service was suspended.
By bus
The La Paz Bus Terminal (Located on Av. Perú) is the main land terminal in the city. You can find buses to the cities of Oruro, Potosí, Tarija, Santa Cruz, Sucre and Cochabamba, also to other important places in the country. The city is connected by road with the city of Oruro through which the cities of Sucre, Potosí and the south of the country are accessed. You can also find buses that go to neighboring countries, Chile and Peru.
For interdepartmental departures there are improvised terminals in different neighborhoods of La Paz. These are, in the neighborhood of Villa Fátima (destination: Yungas, Caranavi, Beni department), the Cemetery area (Tiwanaku, Copacabana, Achacachi, Sorata and other towns in the highlands and close to Lake Titicaca), the Mercado Rodríguez in In the San Pedro area, you can find mobilities that go to populations south of the city.
In general, road transport is not of quality compared to neighboring countries, but it is quite economical using the same analogy.
By car
La Paz is communicated by road with the main capitals of the country, with Chile and Peru, by fundamental highways (of rigid pavement or asphalt layer). In the department there are still many dirt roads, especially to the north, which become impassable in the rainy season.
Travel
There are buses and minibuses that cover a large part of the city in their routes, these have rates that are between 2.0 Bs and 2.60 Bs, this service can only be found until 11 p.m. depending on the route. There are routes to the most populated areas that work all night. There are also truffles, these work in some villas and especially go to the south of the city. They are a kind of taxis with a fixed destination, and their rate is from 3 to 3.5 Bs ($ 0.50).
There are also radio taxis. They do not use meters and the price varies depending on the part of the city you are going to. Radio taxis are safer late at night, since they have a central radio station and can be reached by telephone from anywhere in the city. The minimum price per race of these is 10 Bs ($ 1.30) and they can charge up to 60 Bs ($ 8.5) depending on the distance. It is good to ask the safety rules that every radio taxi must have and not take them on the street, but ask for one over the phone.
To get to the airport, there is a minibus line that covers this service and its stop is in the city center on Av. Arce (Plaza Isabel La Católica), they charge 3.5 Bs. If you prefer to take a taxi to the airport from the center, the rate will not be less than 45 Bs (6.4 $). Likewise, you can take any of the means included since 2012, such as the Pumakatari for an approximate cost of 2 Bs. 50 Ctvs (municipal bus) As well as the cable car in which you can not only enjoy wonderful views, but also with its price of 3 Bs. You can get to your destination quickly, avoiding traffic (or called in this city "trancadera").
Watch
- Sagárnaga Street
- Witches street
- Valley of the moon
- Jach´a Apacheta viewpoint
- Viewpoint K´Illi K´Illi
- Laykakota Park
- Viewpoint of the Plaza de España, in the colonial neighborhood of Sopocachi.
- Typical market of San Pedro
- Cableway
- Auquisamaña Forest
- Viewpoint of the Mound.
- Muela del Diablo.
- South Zone, (there is less height and there are residential neighborhoods)
- Old town (plaza murillo, cathedral, Iglesia San Francisco, calle jaen, colonial churches)
- The meadow
- Bolivian Andean Textiles Museum [1]
- The Spitting Llama Bookstore and Outfiters Store [2]
Do
- Valley of the Moon and Chacaltaya Tour (Full day tour), Montes Avenue # 641. ☎2004036 Invalid phone format, ✉: [email protected]. Go to Chacaltaya where you will walk for approximately two hours, you will see a beautiful landscape with the mountains of the Cordillera Real and you can also take fantastic photos. Then visit the Valley of the Moon, located in the southern area of La Paz. It is a natural attraction of great beauty whose authors are water and air, which through their erosive effects on the terrain created capricious formations of cones and craters that resemble a lunar landscape.
- Biking on the road of death (The World's Most Dangerous Road), Montes Avenue # 641. ☎2004036 Invalid phone format, ✉: [email protected]. You will ride a bicycle on the new paved road for about an hour and a half, then you will enter the most dangerous road in the world, which was built by Paraguayan prisoners during the Chaco war in 1930. You will ride your bicycle for about 3 hours until get to Yolosa, where you can enjoy a buffet lunch, showers and a swimming pool, where you can relax and have fun. You will enjoy that day seeing waterfalls and appreciating beautiful natural landscapes.
- City tour in La Paz, Montes Avenue # 641. ☎2004036 Invalid phone format, ✉: [email protected]. La Paz is one of the wonder cities of the world, offering beautiful views, which attract locals and foreigners. In this city tour you will see many places visited by tourists, in any of the tours you choose. During the tour, you will have two stops, each 10 minutes long. You will visit the Plaza Isabela Católica, the Central Post office, the San Francisco Church, Witches' Market, the Killi Killi Viewpoint, among many other places.
- Cholitas wrestling, Montes Avenue # 641. ☎2004036 Invalid phone format, ✉: [email protected]. The show starts at 4:00 p.m., it is a fight of Bolivian Cholas who fight in the American style, who, proud to wear their traditional clothing for the show, provide a show like no other. The show lasts approximately 2 hours.
- Tiwanaku (Full day tour), Montes Avenue # 641. ☎2004036 Invalid phone format, ✉: [email protected]. Tiwanaku is located 72 km from the city of La Paz. Once there, you can visit the Lithic and Ceramic Museum, then you can visit the Archaeological Site of Tiwanaku and its main ceremonial centers, which are: The Akapana Pyramid, Kalasasaya Semi Subterranean Temple, La Puerta del Sol, Puma Punku, Etc. At the end of your visit, you will be able to taste a typical lunch of the place.
Events (edit)
- The Alasitas: Every year in La Paz, at the end of January, from the 24th of that month, an important event takes place, a mixture of religious fervor and popular beliefs: the Fiesta de las Alasitas, which in Aymara means "buy me."
In the midst of a number of small stalls lined along narrow corridors, we can find all kinds of objects of daily life that skilled craftsmen reproduce in miniature, with an incredible concern for detail and for making the object the most possible similarity to reality.
Each of these small objects symbolizes a dream. According to tradition, the person who acquires the miniature obtains the original in the course of the year.
In the midst of frantic lines, the one who is thinking of building his house, will buy a pickaxe and miniature bags of cement, everything will fit in one hand. Whoever wishes to travel will leave with a passport and a plane ticket barely bigger than a postage stamp. Some may also want to cover all their needs, for which they will buy a twenty by ten centimeter briefcase that will contain a million dollars in small fractions!
Later, at the end of a colorful procession, all the objects acquired must be blessed by a Yatiri, the shaman with powers recognized and respected by all (even if he does not openly confess). In the midst of spells and emissions of incense smoke, it is prayed with devotion. The ritual is a way to maintain and nurture the hope of a better future, where frustrations will make room for the fortune of possessing.
Learn
Work
To buy
To eat
The Star of India - the best of Indian food. a variety of dishes for all tastes! Cochabamba Street No.170 - tel: 2114409 - www.thestarofindiabolivia.com
Banais - Café Restaurant Good service and good prices. Wifi. They accept cards. Address: Sagárnaga 161. Tel. 77283596. Mail: [email protected]