BOLIVIA – LA PAZ
LA PAZ
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars: Mi Teleferico
History, Culture, National and City Museums
La Paz: Ethnography Museum
La Paz: Museo costumbrista Juan de Vargas
Art Museums: La Paz: Museum of Contemporary Art Plaza
House and Biographical Museums
La Paz: Casa Museo Marina Núñez Del Prado
La Paz: Casa museo Solón
La Paz: Museo Casa Murillo
Architectural Delights: La Paz: La Paz Municipal Theatre
Religious and Sacred Art Museums (including Islamic and Jewish Museums): La Paz: Museo San Francisco
Hospitality Legends: La Paz: Hotel Torino
Malls/Department Stores: La Paz: Las Torres Mall
Museums – Decorative Arts, Design, Fashion: La Paz: Museo de Textiles Andinos Bolivianos
Music, Film and Photography Museums: La Paz: Museum of Musical Instruments
Maritime/Ship Museums: La Paz: Museo Historico Naval
The Dark Side: La Paz: Central Cemetery of La Paz
Art Museums: El Alto: Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia
Monuments: El Alto: Che Guevara Statue
Villages and Small Towns: Sorata
World of Nature
Cotapata NP
Pilon Lajas Indigenous Territory Park and Biosphere Reserve
Ulla Ulla National Reserve
Valle de la Luna
Caves, Sinkholes and Saltmines: Ch’usiq Uta (Cueva de San Pedro)
Mountains: Ancohuma, Cerro Calvario – Copacabana, Chacaltaya, Huayna Potosí, Illampú, Illimani
Trails 1 – Treks: Mina San Francisco – Ruta del Takesi Trek
Well-being: Distilleries: Andean Culture Distillery
Indigenous Peoples: Uros
DARE Isla del Sol
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BOLIVIA – SANTA CRUZ
SANTA CRUZ/WARNES
Plaza de 24 de Septiembre
Airports: Santa Cruz (VVI)
Museum Beni Altillo
Guarani Museum
Independence Museum
Melchor Pinto House Cultural Center
Cathedral Basilica of St. Lawrence
Noel Kempf Mercado Museum
Santa Cruz Botanical Garden
Zoológico Municipal Noel Kempff Mercado
FUERTE de SAMAIPATA WHS comprises a gigantic sculptured rock, made by a prehispanic Andean culture for ceremonial use. The natural sandstone hill measures 200x600m, and is completely sculpted with felines, snakes, birds and geometrical motifs with a magical and religious character for the pre-Inca Chané people. Below it lies a former provincial capital of the Inca of a later date. It includes a central plaza, public buildings, houses and agricultural terraces.
10km outside of the town of Samaipata, and can be reached via taxi or hitchhiking in the Amboro National Park, with great mountain vistas and abundant birdlife. The well-crafted trail around the site is self-guided
From Samaipata we took a taxi the next day for 50 BOB to the Fuerte de Samaipata. Mototaxis are cheaper. guided tour entrance fee is 50 BOB and the guided tour 100 BOB in Spanish
the earlier populations have built three runs for art purposes which were later utilized by the Quechua (Inca) to sacrifice animals and let their blood run through it (in parallel to chicha in another run). Also from the Quechua (Inca) period the habitational remains are still left in ruins around the main rock.
Samaipata “helechos gigantes” (giant fern trees) in nearby PN Amboró. The car ride is quite spectacular on a gravel road with huge descents aside in the clouds. It’s a nice walk in a cloud forest afterwards. You need a guide
Getting There from the crossroad to the site is 6km, 2h steep walk uphill. If hitchhiking, all minibusses passing at the crossroads will be full.
Moto-taxi from just outside the mercado.
Minibus. Santa Cruz minibus station for Samaipata near the stadium.
Taxi. return cab and then walk all the way back back to Samaipata.
Walking may be the easiest way to get to El Fuerte – 9-10 km
What to see. A circuit of the site is 2 km with a climb to the very top of the hill to two viewing platforms to see the sculptures from above. The map shows the most prominent sculptures, more difficult to distinguish than those at the Nazca Lines – a lot of the rock sculptures have eroded. The two felines are the most difficult to see. The channels and the geometric pools are the clearest ones.
A former Inca town on the trail back. Not much more is left of it than the walls of groups of buildings. the Five Niches, an Inca temple cut out of the rock.
Amboro National Park, with great mountain vistas and abundant birdlife.
JESUIT MISSIONS of the CHIQUITOS
Concepción: Jesuit Mission
San Javier: Jesuit Mission
San José de Chiquitos: Jesuit Mission
San Miguel de Velasco: Jesuit Mission
San Rafael de Velasco: Jesuit Mission
Santa Ana de Velasco: Jesuit Mission
DARE: Santa Cruz area far eastern areas (Andrés Sandoval and Germán Busch provinces
Islands: Isla del Sol
Monuments: La Higuera: Che Guevara Statue
LA GUARDIA
MONTERO
Villages and Small Towns
Roboré
Samaipata
World of Nature: Amboro NP, Kaa-lya del Gran Chaco NP, Ñembi Guasu Area of Conservation, Noel Kempff Mercado NP, Otuquis NP and Integrated Management Natural Area, Reserva Rios Blanco Y Negro, Tucavaca Valley Municipal Reserve”
Rivers: Paraguay River, Rio Grande/Rio Guapay
Well-being: Thermal Spa: Aguas Calientes
The Dark Side: Che Guevara Trail
