City and regional travel guides across Bolivia: La Paz, Sucre, Uyuni, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and beyond.
Cochabamba does not get the international attention that La Paz or Uyuni get, and that is broadly fine with cochabambinos. The city sits in a temperate valley at 2,560 metres, has the country’s best food, the largest market in South America, a 33-metre statue of Christ visible from anywhere in the city, and the most … Read more
Sucre is the only Bolivian city that asks you to slow down. La Paz is fast and vertical; Santa Cruz is broad and tropical; Uyuni is a base camp for the Salar. Sucre is the white-washed colonial capital where you sit in a plaza for an afternoon, take a Spanish class in the morning, eat … Read more
You probably have an image of the Salar de Uyuni in your head before you read this. Maybe the one with the surface flooded after rain, perfectly mirroring the sky and any human figure standing on it. Maybe the dry-season hexagonal salt-cell pattern that runs to the horizon. Both versions are real, they happen at … Read more
The first thing to understand about La Paz is that the city is built into the wall of a canyon. The administrative centre sits at around 3,650 metres, the high suburbs of Achumani drop to 3,200, and El Alto on the rim above climbs to 4,150. You will spend your first hours in the city … Read more