Bolivia Highlights - La Paz and Lake Titicaca Travel Vacation Packages

Travel to Bolívia and experience its highlights with this 6 Day / 5 Night Travel Vacation Package and Tour that includes La Paz and Lake Titicaca

Destinations Visited

La Paz

La Paz is situated in a narrow bottom of a canyon surrounded by Andean mountains, snow covered peaks and volcanoes, what makes its scenery mystic and unique in the world. Its Bolivia's administrative center, as well as its most populated state department. Over the last 20 years its population has doubled and is estimated today at nearly 1,3 million people. It is the highest capital in the world (located at 3,580 meters/ 11,740 feet above sea level), where people apparently never stop selling food and walking up and down the endless thin streets from the foot to the top of the city. You will find an incredible mixture of Bolivian poor people dressed in traditional colorful clothes, business men, churches and places, colonial and modern buildings, interesting museums, and innumerous markets with the most famous Witch market where you can buy dried llama fetuses or the rarest species of potions you have ever seen in your life. The geographical location causes cold temperatures during the nights in La Paz, although the day sun keeps usually strong during the whole year. La Paz has a good tourist infrastructure with many good restaurants, hotels and travel agency to various attractions close to the city. Some of the most famous trips are the steeply falling jungle road to the little town Coroico in the Yungas, the blue-colored Lake Titicaca, the Cordillera highlands and the ruins of Tahuanaco.

Titicaca Lake

Lake Titicaca, laying half in Bolivia and half in Peru, is the world's second largest inland sea and highest navigable lake. It is also the most indigenous country on the continent, with more than 50% of the population maintaining traditional values and beliefs.

Day-by-day Itinerary

1: La Paz

Transfer from La Paz International Airport to Hotel Radisson.
Overnight at the Hotel Radisson.

2: La Paz

Breakfast.
Private half day city tour and Moon Valley: During this city tour we will visit the Plaza Murillo (the city's main square, with the Presidential Palace, the National Congress and the huge, modern Cathedral, Church of San Francisco (dating from 1549, one of the finest examples of colonial religious architecture in South America, richly decorated with native religious themes), the Mercado de Hechicéria (witch market, where among others llama fetuses are sold, used to protect against evil spirits), the artisan market on Sagarnaga Street, the Museo de Metales Preciosos (Inca artifacts), the Killi Killi watchtower and the city's southern area where we visit the amazing geological shapes of the Valley of the Moon. Return to hotel.
Overnight at the Hotel Radisson

3: La Paz - Titicaca Lake

Breakfast.
Transfer by bus to Titicaca Lake.
Cruise to Moon & Sun Islands.
Visit Sun Temple & Llama Trek on the Inca trails (25 min)
Overnight at Posada del Inca.

4: Titicaca Lake

Breakfast.
Cruise to Copacabana, Sun & Moon Islands: Copacabana is a small town situated on the shores of Lake Titicaca, about 4 hours by bus north-west of La Paz. Many travelers stop off in Copacabana for a day or two since it lies on the main tourist route between Bolivia and Peru. The frontier is only an hour away by bus and approximately 4 hours from Puno in Peru.
The town is famous for its ornate Moorish-style Cathedral. Built in the 17th century, the cathedral is home to the 16th century Virgen de Candelaria also known as the Dark Virgin of the Lake, who is attributed to working many miracles. She is Bolivia's Patron Saint and an object of worship throughout the Andes.
Copacabana is also the stopping off point for trips to the Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) and the Isla de la Luna (Island of the Moon).
Overnight at Inca Utama Hotel & Spa.

6: La Paz

Breakfast.
Transfer to La Paz International Airport.