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Sucre: the most beautiful Bolivian city
Sucre is without doubt the most beautiful Bolivian city. Well in fact it is one of the most beautiful cities I have visted in central and South America. The stunning city of Sucre has a rich colonial heritage, evident in its buildings, streetscapes and numerous churches. In 1991 it was declared a UNESCO Cultural Heritage [...]
La Paz: A cement jungle with witch-craft shops
La Paz is overwhelming in many aspects, not just because of the altitude of 3660m. From a distance, the city looks like a cement jungle (as on the picture above), but when you move around inside it actually has many beautiful neighbourhoods.
The suburbs are posh, with skyscrapers, colonial houses, and modern glass constructions. But most [...]
Podcast: Bolivia
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In this Podcast from Bolivia I head from Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca (birthplace of the Incas) to La Paz, the capital (and highest capital city in the world), where I go on a mountain biking trip down the [...]
Death-road by bus from La Paz to Rurrenabaque
Taking the bus from La Paz to Rurrenabaque is NOT for the faint-hearted. The majority of travellers who take the bus there – decides to fly back. The picture above might explain to you why that is.
The journey takes about 18 hours and the first 4-5 hours are done on a very small dirt road [...]
La Paz tourist attraction: Pachamama fight
While residing in La Paz I came across a very funny and peculiar tourist attraction: Pachamama fighting.
Pachamama fighting is literally pachamamas fighting…usually not with each other . Most of the time one woman fight (hitting, boxing, kicking, biting) with one man, but sometimes they team up – two women against two men.
Most of the [...]
The Death Road, Bolivia
According to the Inter-American Development Bank, the Death Road in Bolivia is statistically the most dangerous road in the world. It has of course been turned into a tourist attraction, with twelve separate ‘adventure sports’ companies in La Paz offering Death Road mountain biking trips.
I decided to attempt it myself whilst in La Paz. The [...]