TOURIST INFORMATION

MAPS AND LIST OF GPS POINTS

Consult us for free photocopies and a list of GPS – Points of all the regions in which the roads are considerably difficult to pass through. (Salar de Uyuni – Sud Lipez, etc.). We are also pleased to offer any other important and necessary information dealing with your travel route.

DOCUMENTS:
- Passport validity for one year
- Visa for more information, please call to the embassy of Bolivia in your country.
- Driver's license, an International Driving License is required.

- Minimun age for driving: 25 years old

CURRENCY:
The "Boliviano"
The Us dollar is accepted mostly in large institutions, hotels, restaurants, shops, handicraft shops, gas stations.
CREDIT CARDS:
Visa, Master Cards, American Express are generally well accepted througthout the country.
WHEN TO TRAVEL:
- Best time : May to December
- June and July are the coldest months
- Rainy season. : January to March - April
LANGUAGES:
- Spanish
- English can be used in high class hotels and restaurants as well as tourist offices.
OTHER POSSIBLE TOURIST ACTIVITIES:
- Andeanism: Straddling the Andes, the eastern and western Cordillera is a land of gaunt mountains with peaks as high as 6.542 meters (21.806 ft) from were you will be able to admire the Pacific Ocean.
- Trekking: Los caminos del Inca, there are three major trails leaving from La Paz or from the vecinity.
Crossing the eastern Cordillera through passes as high as 5.000 meters (16.600 ft), these trails will gradually descend toward the lowland tropics to finally reach the large villages of Coroico and Chulumani situated on the warm high valleys at 1.700 - 1.800 meters ( approx. 5.600 ft)
- The Amazonian Forest:Monochrome of a mysterious green, it offers a large and still unknown quantity of wildlife and vegetation of which very little study or classification has been made. This wild region of the evolution of the north-south continent species, will leave you breathless.

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