La Paz City Tour
Urban tour, cable car ride, Andean cultures, local food, natural landscapes, Claus Meyer´s Gustu Restaurant

Day 1: La Paz City Tour

At 9:00 (or at 14:00) we will pick you up from your hotel to start the city tour, it begins at the “Witches market” where you will find traditional remedies and witchcrafts to offer to “Pachamama” (Mother Earth).

We continue visiting the exteriors of the San Francisco Basilica, the most representative religious temple of the Baroque Mestizo style in Bolivia and then we address ourselves to Murillo Square, in its surroundings there are: the Presidential Palace, the headquarters of the Congress of the Republic and the Cathedral, later we will visit a the Jaen Street, a small beautiful patrimonial street which is a reflex of the colonial past of the city.

Our next stop is the "Teleferico" or Cable Car, to have panoramic ride where we will have amazing views of La Paz city. Finally we go to the south part of the city to get to the Moon Valley, a natural area formed due to the erosion and clay composition of the soil, wind and
rain have created a valley filled with stalagmites.
Return to hotel.

Optional Activities

A visit to La Paz can be focused in gastronomy since the city is one of the most representative of the bolivian gastronomy. Starting in the popular Lanza Market, where we can enjoy local food as "sándwich de chorizo" (sausage sandwich), el anticucho (cow's heart kebabs), "salteña" (a bolivian empanada); till sophisticated restaurants that are revolutionizing South American cuisine such as: Gustu (founded by Claus Meyer, of Noma restaurant, in Copenhague), Ali Pacha (vegan food) y Manqa.

Visit to the city of El Alto, a young, chaotic and shocking city, which has the fastest growing along with Santa Cruz. It has a majority population of Aymara migrants, who meet the "amautas" (fortune readers) to learn about their future and love to express their culture through a type of Andean architecture original to the city of El Alto, where this urban mansions (commonly called "Cholets") have a completely different and flamboyant architecture; the designs, inspired by pop culture icons such as "Mickey Mouse", "Star Wars", "Transformers" are a clear sample of the great desire of this population to open up to a global culture while preserving the essence of its history.

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La Paz City Tour

Half day

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