LA PAZ, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and about 36 others injured when a passenger bus plunged off the road after colliding with another vehicle on a highway in southern Bolivia, local police said Monday. The accident occurred Sunday night near the town of Yotala in the so...
of La Paz, Cochabamba & Santa Cruz. Contrasting luxurious spanish mansions & poor countryside quaint villages lost in time. Whether you're looking for a thrill ride on the world's most dangerous road or serene bird watching tours in the Andean valleys, you'll find something to do in ...
From the lake, it’s just a few hours by bus to La Paz. This is one of two capitals in the country (yes, Bolivia is a funky place) and it’s one of the biggest cities. There’s a lot to see and do in and around La Paz, including the famed Death Road bicycle trip. Don’t...
Use / It as a base to explore parts of Bolivia (like the famousDeath Road) Our Favourite Things to Do in La Paz, Bolivia Take Mi Teleferico Up High The best way to see La Paz? Leaving it. A dilemma facing a number of cities in South America is that with little rural development, ...
The next morning, we loaded our van and headed to Illimani. After several hours of driving on windy dirt roads we arrived in Another winding dirt road led us to basecamp where we slept next to a peaceful creek under a starry night. ...
"Everybody is talking about winning a medal at Olympics and Beijing has brilliant slopes and skiing facilities, which creates excellent conditions for athletes to achieve good results," he observed. "But personally speaking, it's been a long road to this year's Games,...
The road is so straight and flat that roadside rubble can be seen for kilometres and oncoming cars are distorted by mirages on the horizon. Leaving the verdant vegetation of eastern Paraguay; it enters the Chaco's typical scorched brown scrubland. Bushes sprout dagger-like thorns, bristling ...
forest to begin heading south-west on their journey to Chile. Along the way, they encounter drug lords and feel the effects of altitude sickness as they negotiate the region’s roads, one of which is a notoriously dangerous 40-mile mountain pass dubbed El Camino de la Muerte (Death R...
Since the beginning of this year Bolivia has been negotiating with China, Bolivia’s linking up to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The lithium extraction and industrial development was part of it. Under Evo’s guidance it could have lifted this still most impoverished country of So...
After 2000, when the insurrectional cycle of popular protests returned to Bolivia, Quispe’s particular rebellion pushed him to participate with strong road blockades during the gas war, when the government insisted on privatizing and commercializing the resource, which ended in 2003 with the overth...