12 Day itinerary in Bolivia, South America
Bolivia offers you the possibility of doing any type of tourism activity ranging from great adventures through the mountains to meeting local communities. This is the way to get to know Bolivia "from inside"; learning about the local life with the indigenous local communities. Experience tours withi... Read More
By Luis and Francisco
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Taste the best wines in Santa Cruz
Visit the beautiful city of Sucre
Discover the amazing Amboró Park
Explore the salt flats of Uyuni
Taste the best wines in Santa Cruz
Visit the beautiful city of Sucre
Discover the amazing Amboró Park
Explore the salt flats of Uyuni
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International airport Viru Viru- Santa Cruz
International flight by client. You will have a transfer from Viru Viru International Airport to your selected hotel in Santa Cruz. The airport is located at 373 m.a.s.l, north of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in the municipality of Warnes, 40 minutes from the city center. Look for a sign with your name on it. FULL DAY EXCURSION TO WINE ROUTE - LANDSUA & UVAIRENDA VINEYARDS Private Service In the morning, travel to the valley, to the route of the best vineyards that produce delicious high altitude wines thanks to the excellent climate of this area. The "Landsua" vineyard maintains an absolute respect for nature. It develops traditional, fresh, aromatic varietals with a lot of personality, both in aromas, flavors and in its bouquet. Walk through the farm, vineyards and wine tasting. After lunch in a local restaurant, you will continue with the visit of the "Uvairenda" vineyard. Boutique vineyard that produces the renowned 1750 wines and in its wine tasting you will learn how to taste wines.
Guide: Included for the day
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Full Day Excursion To Amboro National Park & Prehistoric Ferns
Amboró Park is an authentic spectacle where nature is the main protagonist. There, the Amazon basin meets the Andean highlands, creating an incredible ecosystem with enormous biodiversity. Early in the morning you start your trip to this unique humid forest for a 4 to 6-hour walk inside the forest where you will feel that you return to the time of the dinosaurs. Unique opportunity to photograph the Prehistoric ferns that can measure more than 10 meters and that can only be seen in this corner of the planet and in New Zealand. Note:* Tour schedule 06h00
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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Santa Cruz - Sucre & Sucre City Tour
Transfer from your hotel to Viru Viru International Airport at Santa Cruz. It will take approximately 40 minutes to arrive. Today you will fly from Santa Cruz to Sucre. The air ticket is not included. Transfer from the hotel in Sucre to the airport with English-speaking guide. The airport is located in the town of Yamparáez, about 35 km from Sucre, and it will take approximately 45 minutes to one hour to arrive. SUCRE CITY TOUR (Half day) Private Services Pick up from the hotel at the indicated time, to start a visit to the white city “Sucre”. You go to the viewpoint of the Recoleta, arrive to the square “Pedro Anzures”, where the city was founded in 1538, it bears the name of its founder. There is a viewpoint from which you can appreciate a beautiful panoramic view of the city of the four names. In the place is one of the most important museums named “ASUR”, it has an exhibition of fabrics of the cultures “Tarabuco”, “Jalq’a” and “Tinquipaya”, it is a project of recovery, promotion and sale of textiles from these areas representing the most important and representative textiles in Bolivia. Continuing the visit, you will enter the convent of the Order of Franciscans to appreciate the colonial architecture and the conventual life of the time. We continue our tour through the colonial streets, passing through the front of churches: San Lazaro, the first cathedral of the city, the convent of Las Clarisas, the church of Santo Domingo and we reach the heart of the city: The main square “25 de Mayo” and we end our tour with the visit to the “Casa de la Libertad”, where Bolivia was born to the republic. Finally, return to the hotel.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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Visit Potolo Community
We leave the hotel at the indicated time to make the visit to the community of “J’alqa”, which is 80 km away from Sucre, it will take approximately two and a half hours of journey on paved road in the first stretch and then road of land. It is one of the villages that has the best textiles of Chuquisaca and Bolivia, because of the characteristics of its design and an ancestral technique that passes from generations, keeping the tradition to avoid it being lost. We have the opportunity to see live the work of the weavers who kindly allow us to enter their homes and show us his art, which is unique, for its authenticity and anthropomorphic design, zoomorphic and the chaos in which it is interwoven mythological animals and imaginary figures that make it one of the most appreciated and valued textiles of its own and strangers. We will find a nice place to enjoy a picnic lunch. In the afternoon we will walk around the place and then return to Sucre.
Meals: Breakfast
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Sucre - Potosi
We will start the tours by visiting the mining market, where the guide will provide an explanation of all the material that is used within the Mines such as: dynamite, coca, alcohol, etc. Tourists can voluntarily purchase coca leaves and homemade cigarettes to give as gifts to workers inside the mine. Later, we go to an environment where the tourist will dress with all the safety equipment. We are now heading to one of the mine openings that are still exploited under similar conditions at the time of the colony. You will also participate in the customs, traditions and superstitions of the miners such as the image of the "TIO" who is credited with owning the silver. Note: The activity includes helmet, jacket, pants, boots, lamp.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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Potosi City Tour & 1 Museum
We pick you up from the hotel and begin this story in the city of Potosi declared by UNESCO as a natural heritage of humanity. It is considered one of the richest cities in the world, for the extraction of silver, it was the honey of the Spanish crown that attracted locals and strangers for centuries. You will get to know its squares, colonial streets, balconies, gates and large houses that are full of history. You will also visit one of these museums: Casa de la Moneda: Considered one of the most important museums in Bolivia, visiting this place is a leap into the past to understand the beginnings of coin minting in Potosí and the evolution in history. Or Church-Convent and Museum of Santa Teresa: Since 1976 it has operated as the Santa Teresa Museum. It is currently considered one of the best museums of sacred art in Latin America, recognized by historians and connoisseurs. On one of the yards, the cells of the sisters were located; in number of 21 cells. The garden that observes us affirms that the nuns were devoted to the agriculture. Finally, after the tour, you will return to the hotel. Transport from Potosi to Uyuni. The trip will take approximately 3.30 hours.
Meals: Breakfast
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Uyuni Tour
The Salar de Uyuni, the most impressive natural attraction of Bolivia and the largest salt flat of the world with 10,582 km2, offers you one of the most incredible views that you can imagine. The first stop in the itinerary will be the Train Cemetery, where you will see the remains of very old wagons and trains from the 30's. You will continue to Colchani, a salt-processing town, where hand-made objects are on sale, many of them made of salt. Afterwards, you will enter the Salar de Uyuni to see the natural breathing conductors named “Ojos de Sal”, which means Eyes of Salt, where water from under the hard salt crust comes to the surface. Then, time to try out different positions for your ultimate optical illusion photo. Continue your visit to the Incahuasi Island located in the middle of the salt flat, covered with ancient cacti (that can be up to 18 meters tall) and a rare ecosystem that has survived centuries. Finally, you will admire the stunning sunset in the salt lake with a toast with Andean liqueurs before go back to your hotel in Uyuni town. STAR NIGHT TOUR (2 hours) Private Service Departure to a few kilometers into the salt flat for a night tour to enjoy a night with the stars like you have never seen before. Prepare for a spectacle of kaleidoscopic reflections which are produced at night. If your travel dates coincide with the rainy season (December through March) when the salar is flooded and the sky reflects off it like a mirror; you will feel as walking in space amongst the stars. The Uyuni sky is considered one of the clearest in the world, although this excursion is subject to changes depending on weather conditions.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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Uyuni - La Paz & La Paz City Tour & Moon Valley
Transfer from your hotel to Joya Andina Airport in Uyuni. It will take approximately 15 minutes to arrive. Domestic flight by client. Air Ticket not included You will have a private transfer from El Alto International Airport to your selected hotel in La Paz. This is the highest international airport in the world with an altitude of 4 060 meters above the sea level. The airport is located in the city of El Alto, 50 minutes from La Paz. Look for a sign with your name on it. LA PAZ CITY TOUR & MOON VALLEY (Full day) Private services When you visit the highest capital city of the world, La Paz, you are welcomed by extreme geography, fragrant markets, chaotic streets and colorfully dressed Bolivians roaming around the city. La Paz is known as “Nuestra Señora de La Paz” and is located in Western Bolivia. During the city tour, you will visit the Plaza Murillo where the Bolivian government is based, as well as an important and immense cathedral and the Presidential Palace. There are also very interesting markets to visit such as the “Mercado de las Brujas" where community healers will offer an array of medicinal plants as well as potions, powders, incense, amulets and talismans that ensure good health, luck, beauty and fertility. You will also see locals practicing traditional rituals such as reading the fortune in coca leaves. Additionally, you will be driven to a special location where you will have a 360 degree view of the city and then, you will visit the Moon Valley, aptly named, this site is unique for its features of lunar-like landscapes and bizarre geological formations. The Moon Valley is not actually a valley, but a maze of canyons and giant spires. The clay and sandstone formations were formed by the erosion of mountains because of strong winds and rains.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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Tour To Coroico & Munaipata Coffee Plantation
Private transport from La Paz to Coroico and return. To arrive to Coroico takes about two hours. Coroico is a small city known as the gateway to the Bolivian Amazon where you will find unique attractions such as La Carretera de la Muerte which is one of the most dangerous routes in the world that can be traveled by bicycle, the Andean wildlife refuge called La Senda Verde, the Three Waterfalls, and Las Pozas del Vagante which are beautiful natural pools. TOUR TO COROICO & MUNAIPATA COFFEE PLANTATION Private Service You can live a unique and very interesting experience from planting the seed in the ground to taste your own roasted coffee!Pick up from your accommodation to be transferred to Coroico located at 3 hrs from La Paz city, to arrive the famous Munaipata coffee plantation based at 1500 meters above sea level which makes their coffee a "true high altitude coffee" with the magic of its flavor and scent. But what makes Café Munaipata unique is that it is an organic coffee that comes from a fair and responsible production with the environment.You can also participate of the careful selection of fruits in the harvest is and the collection . There are 7 stages of selection in total.Transform yourself into a coffee connoisseur, enjoy the beautiful scenery during your visit and relaxing with a cup of this delicious coffee. In the afternoon return to La Paz.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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2d Copacabana & Sun Island Program - First Day - Copacabana & Sun Island Program
Private transport from La Paz to Copacabana, including the ferry in the strait of Tiquina. The trip will take approximately four hours. 2D COPACABANA & SUN ISLAND PROGRAMPrivate services FIRST DAY - COPACABANA & SUN ISLAND PROGRAM: From Copacabana to Sun Island Short walk to Titicaca lake’s shore to board a private boat to the Sun Island, where the Inca’s empire was born. After the boat ride across Lake Titicaca, you will arrive to the south part of the Island of the Sun. Visit of the Archaeological remains of "Pilkokaina", the Inca Sun Temple. Later, a journey up the Escalinatas de Yumundi, a traditional Inca stair, to get the "Youth Source" or sacred water. It is believed that this is the eternal youth's source. You will also enjoy the beauty of the Incan garden. Transfer to your hotel and time to enjoy one of the most unforgettable experiences in Bolivia; the sun setting over the Lake Titicaca. A buffet lunch menu at Hotel Puma Punku Eco Lodge restaurant, with beautiful views of the lake, is included.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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Second Day - Copacabana & Sun Island Program: From Sun Island To Copacabana
VIVENCIAL TOURISM - SUN ISLAND YUMANI (1.30 hours) Shared services Live the unique experience in high Andes. Learn the culture, tradition, uses and customs in Sun Island-Bolivia. We will have the opportunity to visit a house of one of the community members, where they will be explained the architecture of the house, the uses and customs, the agriculture and the process of elaboration of textiles. Then they will be given an explanation of the typical costumes and after optionally the tourists can wear the costumes if they wish to use them, and finally they will participate in an autochthonous dance. After breakfast, you will return to Copacabana by private boat. At your arrival to Copacabana, time to visit of the Brown Virgin's Sanctuary, where the parishioners go to ask fortune. You can enjoy of the colorful local market of Copacabana too. Private transport from Copacabana to La Paz including the ferry in the strait of Tiquina. The trip will take approximately four hours.
Guide: Included for the day
Meals: Breakfast
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La Paz Departure
Transfer from your hotel to La Paz International Airport. It will take approximately 50 minutes to one hour to arrive.
Meals: Breakfast
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My name is Luis Diaz and I am in charge of the sales area in Bolivia. I work for 13 years in tourism, 8 of them in the sales area with the firm purpose of creating unique trips that will always last in the memory of each visitor.
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