La Paz Backpacking Eight Months On the Road
Bus Through South America
By David Rice
La Paz
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La Paz
Backpacking by Bus In South America
Eight Months On the Road
By David Rice
Persian Carpets
I bought a ticket for La Paz in Bolivia and we left at ten PM,
reaching La Paz in mid morning. I had visited La Paz before so I
knew where I wanted to stay. I headed towards the Hotel Torino
in the middle of the large city.
I was on my way home now, back to Missouri so I spent just two
nights in La Paz, a city of over a million at 3,500 meters above
sea level, too high for most airliners to fly into and consequently
an expensive place to buy air line tickets from the lines that do
serve the airport. I was looking for air passage to Colombia but