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Location: Located in the heart of South America.
Population: Approximately 8.000.000 inhabitants.
Area: 1.098.581 Km² (428,446 square miles)
Capital: La Paz (Administrative) and Sucre (Constitutional).
Official Language: Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.
Government Type: Democratic.
Religion: 90 % Catholics, but freedom of worship is guaranteed by law.
Environment: A safe country. Index of robbery and theft to tourists is the lowest in South America, Bolivia is probably the safest country of Latin America.
Shopping: Distinctive handicrafts at bargaining prices, gold, silver, alpaca wool, etc.
Altitude: Eat and drink moderately and take your time at first.
Seasons: Rainy from December to March, rest of the year mild and sunny.
Monetary: 7.35 Bolivianos per American Dollar.
Business Hour: 9:00 to 12:00 in the morning, 14:30 to 18:30 in the afternoon. Government and some financial institutions are now working strait from 08:30 to 16:30.
Local Time: 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Bolivian Time is constant throughout the year and throughout the country.
Electric currency: La Paz runs on 220V and 110V current. The rest of the country is 220V, the current is in 50 cycles AC.
Accommodation: From first-class hotels to typical lodgings.
Entrance Ways: By air with several carriers, operating to Bolivia. However, the most attractive and usual way to enter Bolivia is from Peru, crossing the Sacred Lake of the Incas by catamaran. A Titikaka Catamaran Cruise Line offers daily connections from Cusco/Puno to La Paz.
Holidays: New Years day - January 1st.
Carnival - Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
Good Friday - Friday before Easter.
Labor Day - May 1.
Corpus Christi - 60 days after Good Friday.
Independence Day - August 6.
All Saints Day - November 2.
Christmas Day - December 25. |
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Half Day Tours
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CITY TOUR AND MOON VALLEY H.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit a typical Indian Market, the famous Witch Doctor’s Market and the San Francisco Colonial Church. The tour continues to the Plaza Murillo where the Cathedral, the Government Palace and the National Congress buildings are located. Then, we will visit the famous colonial street “Calle Jaén” where interesting museums are clustered together, followed by the visit to the open air museum from the Tiwanaku Culture. To change scenery the tour continues to the residential areas of Obrajes, Calacoto and La Florida. The tour ends with a visit to the unique Moon Valley, where you will have the opportunity to walk around, and a visit to a ceramic workshop with a demonstration of the art of pottery.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and museums admission fee.
Duration: 3 hours.
CITY TOUR AND MOON VALLEY H.D. INCL. TYPICAL SNACK
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit a typical Indian Market, the famous Witch Doctor’s Market and the San Francisco Colonial Church. The tour continues to the Plaza Murillo where the Cathedral, the Government Palace and the National Congress buildings are located. Then, we will visit the famous colonial street “Calle Jaén” where interesting museums are clustered together, followed by the visit to the open air museum from the Tiwanaku Culture. To change scenery the tour continues to the residential areas of Obrajes, Calacoto and La Florida at this point we will stop at a snack shop to have a typical snack called “salteña”. The tour ends with a visit to the unique Moon Valley, where you will have the opportunity to walk around, and a visit to a ceramic workshop with a demonstration of the art of pottery.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and museums admission fee.
Duration: 4 hours
TIWANAKU RUINS H.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit the former capital of a civilization that rose around 700 AD. At 72 Km. from La Paz. During its greatest time, the Capital of Tiwanaku was the largest in the world and considered to be “The Cradle of the American Civilization”. This pre-Inca ruins started endless archaeological debates and the oldest radiocarbon test shows 1.580 B.C. On the way, you will pass the town of Laja, where La Paz was founded in 1.548.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and ruins admission fee.
Duration: 5 hours.
ZONGO H.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel and take them to Zongo. On the way we pass several lagoons, all of them at the foot of the spectacular Huayna Potosí Mountain. Visit to a typical cemetery of the miners and passengers can enjoy the landscape of ice covered summits and waterfalls, until arriving to the “platform” with sensational views all around.
Service Includes: private transportation, bilingual guide
Duration: 5 hours
Note.- Part of the road is not paved.
CHACALTAYA SKI FIELD H.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit Mount Chacaltaya, the world’s highest developed ski-area, at one hour from downtown La Paz, at an altitude of over 5000 m., atop a dying glacier on the slopes of Cerro Chacaltaya (5345 m.). On a clear day Chacaltaya offers a breathtaking view of the High plateau, neighboring peaks, and Lake Titikaka.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and admission fee.
Duration: 5 hours.
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Day Tours
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Titikaka Catamaran Day Cruise (full day).
PUNO - LA PAZ
Early land transfer to Copacabana Sanctuary, board the Catamaran Cruise Ship, lunch while sailing to Sun Island, the legendary birthplace of the Inca Empire. Visit the Inca Garden, steps and fountain then the Inti Wata Cultural Complex including the Ekako Underground Museum, the traditional medicine and the Titikaka Reed Shipbuilders display centers, the Pachamama agricultural Inca terraces, a handicraft center, the Intica lounge and at the Manco Kapac look out the largest variety of Andean cameloids. Also, the Inti Wata Complex at Sun Island includes a unique sailing experience aboard a huge Titikaka traditional vessel for a panoramic visit to the Pilkokaina Inca Palace.
Catamaran Cruise Ship to Chua harbor, land transfer to La Paz city.
LA PAZ - PUNO
Early land transfer for lake Titikaka, board the Catamaran Cruise Ship, breakfast while sailing to Sun Island, the legendary birth place of the Inca Empire. Visit the Inca Garden, steps and fountain then the Inti Wata Cultural Complex including the Ekako Underground Museum, the traditional medicine and the Titikaka Reed Shipbuilders display centers, the Pachamama agricultural Inca terraces, a handicraft center, the Intica lounge and at the Manco Kapac look out the largest variety of Andean cameloids. Also, the Inti Wata Complex at Sun Island includes a unique sailing experience aboard a huge Titikaka Traditional vessel for a panoramic visit to the Pilkokaina Inca Palace.
Catamaran Cruise Ship to the Sanctuary of Copacabana while enjoying lunch on board, land transfer to Puno.
CITY TOUR AND MOON VALLEY F.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit a typical Indian Market, the famous Witch Doctor’s Market and the San Francisco Colonial Church. The tour continues to the Plaza Murillo where the Cathedral, the Government Palace and the National Congress buildings are located. Then, we will visit the famous colonial street “Calle Jaén” where interesting museums are clustered together, followed by the visit to the open air museum from the Tiwanaku Culture. Lunch in a typical restaurant. To change scenery the tour continues to the residential areas of Obrajes, Calacoto and La Florida. The tour ends with a visit to the unique Moon Valley, where you will have the opportunity to walk around, and a visit to a ceramic workshop with a demonstration of the art of pottery.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and museums admission fee.
Duration: 6 hours.
CITY TOUR AND SPIRITS VALLEY F.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit a typical Indian Market, the famous Witch Doctor’s Market and the San Francisco Colonial Church. The tour continues to the Plaza Murillo where the Cathedral, the Government Palace and the National Congress buildings are located. Then, we will visit the famous colonial street “Calle Jaén” where interesting museums are clustered together, followed by the visit to the open air museum from the Tiwanaku Culture. To change scenery the tour continues to the residential areas of Obrajes, Calacoto, La Florida and a visit to the unique Moon Valley, where you will have the opportunity to walk around and a visit to a ceramic workshop with a demonstration of the art of pottery. Following is a visit to the Valley of Spirits, located 20 minutes from La Paz. These are a series of rock formations produced by the effect of rainwater on alluvial deposit. In several places there are majestic obelisks and fantastic organ pipe spires, such as the magnificent called “Las Animas” (the Souls). At this point passengers are near the Illimani Mountain and are able to admire its extreme beauty from the most picturesque Illimani sightseeing point in La Paz.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide, box lunch and museums admission fee.
Duration: 6 hours.
TOUR TO ILLIMANI VALLEY F.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit the southern part of La Paz, where the Valley of the Spirits is located. These series of rock formations at only 20 min. from La Paz are produced by the effect of rainwater of alluvial deposit. After a short walk, we continue by car to visit a picturesque Andean village located close to the Illimani Valley, where beautiful landscapes can be admired. Visitors at this service will experience one of the most fascinating views of the Illimani Mountain and its surroundings.
Service includes: private transportation, bilingual guide, and box lunch.
Duration: 6 hours
TIWANAKU RUINS F.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit the former capital of a civilization that rose around 700 AD. At 72 Km. from La Paz. During its greatest time, the Capital of Tiwanaku was the largest in the world and considered to be “The Cradle of the American Civilization”. This pre-Inca ruins started endless archaeological debates and the oldest radiocarbon test shows 1.580 B.C. On the way, you will pass the town of Laja, where La Paz was founded in 1.548.
Service Includes: Private transportation, box lunch, bilingual guide and ruins admission fee.
Duration: 8 hours.
ZONGO LAGOON AND VALLEY F.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel and take them to Zongo, where the hydroelectric power station of the Bolivian Power Company is located. On the way we pass the mining village of Milluni Mine and several lagoons that provide La Paz with its drinking water, all of these at the foot of the spectacular peak of Huayna Potosí. The enormous glaciers are impressive, as is the sudden drop into the Valley, where the vegetation changes constantly as you go downhill.
Passengers have the opportunity to see varieties of orchids, gushing waterfalls, crystal clear creeks and ice covered summits.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and lunch-box.
Duration: 8 hours.
Note.- Part of the road is not paved.
YUNGAS - COROICO F.D.
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit the subtropical area of the Yungas. The trip goes through Bolivia’s diverse scenery for about 3 hours, crossing a mountain range of enormous masses of stone and rock, gradually descending to the subtropical region, where lower mountains are covered with different vegetation such as the tropical sugar, cocoa, tobacco, coca, coffee and fruit plantations. The scenery is unforgettable and very impressive.
Service Includes: Private transportation, bilingual guide and lunch.
Duration: 10 hours.
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