The city with the most beautiful name in the world. Travel in Bolivia

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.. Nuestra Señora de La Paz ..

.. strange city, gray and hard to love .. conical in shape, the true center of the city lies at the bottom, the abyss of the valley, looking up you discover that you are surrounded by a Continum building that rises up to cover the sky .. as having fallen into the crater of a volcano ..

So difficult is to love La Paz (The Peace, what a lovely name!) ... His disorder architectural buildings stuck on each other mercilessly by mixing ancient and modern ..
La Paz is an insult to the landscape that becomes poetry in its own way ...

La Paz's hard not to love after spending more than 4 days, when Calle Jaen by the bright colors will send the charm of an artificial paradise, when it is more difficult to navigate and each place is beginning to become part of you.

Just outside the maze of houses, El Valle de La Luna, extravagant landscape of Canyon just outside the city ... not to miss! The opposite side, coming from La Paz, the great city of El Alto ".. noisy and chaotic, an open-air market .. labyrinthine and oppressive. However, the airport boasts the world's highest .. where planes can safely go with LAB hours or days ... .. delay.

Just 2 hours away, the lost city of Tihuanaku, which many believed Atlantis, and still has enchanting mysteries ... how could these people have so many pre-Inca astronomical and technical knowledge? They designed a voice amplification system using a machine stone structure on the model of the human ear .. could carve the faces of all races of the world .. without ever coming in contact with them .. or maybe who knows .. I like to think that these contacts between people were already .. even before the ruthless colonial era.
The great figures of the priests, are carved in stone with one hand on the reverse .. and it is not a mistake nor malformations .. stands for the giving and receiving, necessary for the maintenance of harmony.
Tihuanaku is a magical place, to be enjoyed without haste, accompanied by reading a good book to get an idea of his many questions unresolved.

With a little 'patience through the long journey of the Yungas (formerly called the "dangerous street in the world, now fortunately has opened a path alternating) you can reach Coroico .. "La Puerta De Amazonia", defined the appetizer of Amazonia Boliviana transports you to a relaxing world of lush vegetation and waterfalls.
Especially nice is take a breath and feel light again after spending several days at altitude in La Paz that put excessive strain on the capacity of resistance.
Hidden in this green paradise, the cultivation of Coqueros; not forget that in Bolivia the consumption of Coca untreated is legal, in fact, goes even religious practices and is considered not only an exhilarating but a genuine medicine. Coca fact, in the tradition of the native is the daughter of Pachamama, Mother Earth .. man who donated to defeat the effort and overcome the pain .. A Bolivian law allows us the words of an essay concerned about the foreign invasion ".. if the white man will approach our sacred coca, it will destroy its character, to destroy itself ..." and unfortunately, his intuition been fulfilled.
THE Yungas is a true tropical landscape, populated by insects, alas! boring mosquitoes, whose bites leave marks and burning for weeks ... but it is really worth to take some 'time to discover this place romantic and surreal.
Completely hidden in the forest of tall waterfalls appear suddenly after crossing wet muddy trails surrounded by the sound of a rough river that you can not see, and part of millions of birds.

Lake Titicaca is also a world apart, has the color and scent of the sea.
The rolling mountains are mirrored vanity Isle del Sol on its crystal clear waters .. between the green of trees and stretches of rugged cliffs .. this island is a small continent .. I could not imagine it could be so beautiful ... the islands of Lake Titicaca are real pearls from territories amazing ability to move and enchant even the most skeptical travelers.

But Bolivia is much more .. can drag you deep into the wood or give you the absolute alienation in the majestic desert to Salt Ayun .. goal that unfortunately .. for reasons of time and weather problems (March is the rainy season and therefore less appropriate for discovering Bolivia .. unfortunately) we did not see and we returned to our beloved Peru.

Patience .. the next trip .. Uyuni you can reach easily from Chile ...

Regards to all .. and visit Bolivia! We will win if you will let you win!