Coroico               Trekking

The Cordillera Real (Royal Mountain Range)  From its mountain passes one can descend through the lush semitropical valleys of the Yungas along some of the most impressive and well preserved pre-Colombian roads of South America , such as the well-known Choro and Takesi Trails.

Tiwanaku. Explore the pre-Inka ruins of Tiwanaku and its museums.

Ideal if you wish to:

• Discover the ancient culture of the Aymaras
• Learn how the Aymaras live in the city
• Buy handicrafts created with age old techniques
• Explore a city full of surprises through its people and topography

Make tah jungle yours

MADIDI NATIONAL PARK (MNP)
Located in the northwest of Bolivia , this park protects a full array of tropical ecosystems. From the high Andes to the Amazon basin, Madidi's vast wilderness of 4,500,000 acres encompasses unparalleled biological diversity, ranging from mountain cloud forest to dry tropical forest, humid lowland rainforest to savannah, wild rivers to lakes.

CHALALAN ECOLODGE
Chalalan is the first international quality eco-lodge fully OWNED and OPERATED by an indigenous community, crafted with the eco-tourist in mind, offering comfortable accommodation in pristine tropical rainforest. The eco-lodge sits on the edge of the natural and majestic Chalalan lake, deep in the Bolivian Amazon.

Chalalan Ecolodge. It´s a ecological place where you can see a lot of variety in fauna and flora. Rurrenabaque - Bolivia. 

THE IDEAL CONCEPT OF ECOTOURISM

In Chalalan we strive to offer you a unique, top-quality rainforest experience that will benefit San José de Uchupiamonas, OUR COMMUNITY and protect Madidi National Park , OUR HOMETuichi river. Chalalan Ecolodge. It´s a ecological place where you can see a lot of variety in fauna and flora. Rurrenabaque - Bolivia.

Uyuni Salt Lake, white deserts and colored lagoons

"The Salar De Uyuni is by far the biggest salt lake in the world, and one of Bolivias´s most extraordinary attractions." J. Read.

"Driving across it is one of the weirdest and most fantastic experiences anywhere on the continent, specially during June and July, when the bright blue skies contrast with the blinding-white salt crust" A. Murphy.

Dawn and dusk on the salt flats are wonderful spectacles, and in the rainy season they turn into a gigantic mirror. It is a photographers paradise

La Paz - Uyuni. 4 hours by bus to Oruro then 7 hours by train to Uyuni. Overnight in Uyuni.

Uyuni Salt Lake. One day tour. . Short visit to the Train Cemetery . Leave for the Salt Lake visiting Colchani on the way where the local people make their living extracting salt. Cross the Salar to Fish Island known for its giant cactus and its incredible views of the Salt Lake . Snack. In the afternoon, a visit to Coquesa, a small picturesque town where time has stopped at the base of the extinct volcano Tunupa. A short walk to the Tombs. On the return trip to Uyuni you will visit the Eyes of Salt and its impressive views of the geology of the Salt Lake .

Uyuni Salt Lake. 2 day tour including Jirira.
Day 1. Visit Colchani and Fish Island.
In the afternoon travel to Jirira a picturesque town dedicated to the cultivation of quinua. Stay overnight in a basic lodge.
Day 2. Ascent to the Tunupa Volcano to the outlook with its fantastic views of the Salt Flats. Descent via Coquesa with a visit to the Tombs. In the afternoon you will visit the Eyes of Salt and return to Uyuni.

Uyuni area and Colored Lagoons. You can enjoy and see a nice landscapes in Potosí - Bolivia.

Eduardo Avaroa Reserve

Uyuni Salt Lake and the Red Lagoon.
Day 1. Visit the Uyuni Salt Lake, Cochani and Fish Island. Spend the night in San Juan.
Day 2. Visit the lookout of the Ollague Volcano, the Canapa, Hedionda, ChiarKkota, Honda and Ramadita Lagoons. Cross the fantastic Siloli Desert, visit the Stone Tree, arrive at the Red Lagoon, habitat to the pink flamingoes. Stay overnight in basic accommodations.
Day 3. Early in the morning visit the Geysers of the Morning Sun, Dali Valley, the Green Lagoon (*). On the return trip to Uyuni you will visit the Valley of the Rocks, Villamar, Culpina and San Cristobal.

(*) Optional. Side trip by shared transportation to San Pedro de Atacama- Chile

Uyuni Salt Lake, Jirira and Red Lagoon
(4 days). Similar to the previous program plus an overnight stay in Jirira on the first day.

Southwestern Bolivia and Tupiza.
6 and 7 day excursions including the Uyuni Salt Lake, the Red Lagoon, the Green Lagoon, the Los Lipez Mountain Range, San Antonio de Lipez, San Vincente (the final holdout where the most famous outlaws of the old American West , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, died), the valleys of Tupiza and the return to Potosi or connections to Argentina via train.

Ideal if you wish to:
 
• Admire exotic wildlife.
• See incredible landscapes.
• Take the best pictures in a giant studio.

The Pilon Lajas Reseve is home of T´simanes and Mosetenes etnic groups.This Reserve offers the experience to interact with the community situated over the Quiquibey river.
Mapajo Ecolodge. The Pilon Lajas Indigenous Territory Biosphere Reserve, Rurrenabaque - Bolivia. The Pilon Lajas Indigenous Territory Biosphere Reserve offers pristine Amazon rainforest with many types of flora and fauna as well as the great ethnic and cultural richness of Chimane, Mosetene and Tacana indigenous communities along the Quiquibey river. The Mapajó lodge is only three hours by boat from Rurrenabaque and ten minutes walk from the Asunción del Quiquibey indigenous community. The lodge, situated on a cliff-face overlooking the Quiquibey river, offers spectacular views. It has comfortable cabins, a dining room and showers with running water. The Mapajó program gives the guests the opportunity to interact with the community and its diverse activities.
 
Ecolodge Mapajo is only three hours sailing from Rurrenabaque and ten minutes walking of the indigenous community Asuncion of the Quiquibey. The ecolodge is located in a ravine that it gives to the Quiquibey River and that offers spectacular landscapes of the surroundings. It has comfortable cabins, a dining room, baths and showers with running water. An important characteristic of the Mapajos program, is that it offers to the visitor the opportunity to interrelate with the community and its diverse activities.  

Ideal if you wish to:

• Navigate the Yucuma river in a canoe.
• Learn how the natives value the rainforest.
• Participate with the natives in their daily life.
• Watch fascinating creatures: caymans, anacondodas, greater rheas and pink dolphins.

 Caracoles Lodge

The Pampas is located near the village of Santa Rosa, this is an area of Savannah (Pampa), divided by meandering rivers and characterized generally by low and open vegetation, ideal for animal observation. It has a very high diversity and abundance of fauna, especially birds, capybaras, pink dolphins, monkeys, toucans, anacondas and others.

To walk through the streets of Potosi is to enter a bygone age when Potosi was a splendid colonial city. Carlos V named Potosi the Imperial city in 1547. In the Mint ( Casa de la Moneda ), the money was coined that would finance the economic development of Europe in the 17th century. This city has been declared a Human Heritage spot by UNESCO.
 
City Tour and the Mint. Visit the Cathedral, the churches and the covents with their barroque-mestizo style doorways and altars. Visit the Mint one of the most important repositories for the history of mining and a holding center for the imperial coins. The Mint also contains an exhibit of the most important painters of the colonial times.

Visit a Colonial Mine. Potosi 's fame is tied irrevocably to silver. The city was founded in 1545 when silver was found in the Cerro Rico (Rich Montain). On this tour you will visit one of the few mines that is still preserved in its totality and you will see how the mine was worked in colonial times.

Private Mine (Cooperative). Visit one of the mines where technology has not yet arrived, where each miner extracts the mineral by hand or with rudimentary tools. In these mines the working conditions are very difficult and have not changed since colonial times. Only mornings. Not on Sundays.

Map and aerea on the way Potosí and Sucre. Bolivia.

Ideal if you wish to:

• Be adventurous.
• Learn about the incredible customs and legends of the miners.
• Go inside the long mining tunnels to the heart of the mountain. 

Between the departments of La Paz and the Beni, when finalizing the mountainous zone and to borders of the amazonian Beni river, is Rurrenabaque, with almost 5,000 inhabitants. It is the main population of the zone and departure point for the expeditions in search of adventures in the amazonian forests and Pampas, where to others to enjoy the abundant nature they will have the opportunity to coexist with the communities of the environs.

The main attractions in Rurrenabaque are divided in two areas:
Rurrenabaque-Bolivia. The area in the amazon, comunities where you can find an experience in the forest.

Area of the Forest, located to the west of the Beni River and to the south of Rurrenabaque, in the Departments of La Paz and Beni. The type of vegetation is of humid forest, high trees, with great diversity of fauna and flora. The forest can be appreciated in the Park Nacional Madidi and the Reserve Lajas Pylon.
Area of Pampas, located to the east of the Beni river, in the Department of the Beni. The type of vegetation is characterized by the little foliage and it is not in protected areas. In addition to Pampas, attractive the main one is the stroll in the Yacuma river, where it is possible to be observed pink yacares, batos, ostriches, pink dolphins, capibaras and turtles.

What to take for the Rurrenabaque trip:
• Long - sleeved shirts, preferably cotton
• Long cotton pants
•  Shorts
• Waterproof folding sun hat with brim
• Sun block
• Mosquito repellent (50% DEET) 

Santa Cruz is the land of the hope and the progress, is thus, one of the cities of Bolivia as fast as growth, modern and mighty, is the capital of soya and the natural gas. Between its main attractiveness they are: the bolivian -Brazilian Carnival, its a mixing between two countries interpreting dances, choirs and music of seduction and happiness, and “La Expo-feria Cruceña” on september, where the exponents present the hard effort by the overcoming and the perseverance of their work.

Samaipata Inka Ruins. The last bastion of the Incas, elaborated and carved in stone. Santa Cruz - Bolivia. Santa Cruz is located to the east of Bolivia next to the border with Brazil, in her neighborhoods are Samaipata  an engineering and art work that is dated in the incaico period. Also we will be able to appreciate the churches of the Jesuits Missions, true architectonic jewels that date from century XVIII and the National Parks Noel Kempff Mercado and Amboró; with a vast and impressive biodiversity in flora, fauna and landscape that will take to us in a backward movement in the time beyond the imagination.
Amboro. Santa Cruz - Bolivia.
 
Ideal if you whish to:
 
• Watch the unusual wildlife
• Resting in a lovely colonial village.
• Learn about the heritage of the colony
• Hiking into the Cloudforest of giant ferns.
• Encounter with families of condors in their own habitat. 

Sucre is the Capital of Bolivia located at the center of Bolivia, one of the oldest and colonial cities from Latin America, where occurred the first liberty voice of South America. Here is the House of the Freedom, where occurred the Act of Independence was signed and named to Bolivia, on this site was based the first ideas of freedom through the “Universidad Mayor de San Francisco Xavier” from Chuquisaca, where their classrooms started the revolutionary ideas based on “Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood”; and so, all the city is touristic, with their stone streets and facades and old architecture, we found the cathedrals and churches distributed in almost each corner and its textiles jalq´as without another equal.
To others we can appreciate the most long dinosaurs´s footprint in the world, printed  approximately 65 or 70 million years ago.

Map and aerea on the way Potosí and Sucre. Bolivia. Tarabuco and Jatun Yampara. (Only Sundays). You can visit the traditional fair of handicrafts where the customs and the authentic expressions of the community are appraised alive, in this place you can acquired textiles directly from the craftsmen.

Ideal if you wish:

*To know Prehistoric footprint
*To explore a colonial city cradle of the first liberty voice from South American. 

LA PAZ-COPACABANA-SUN ISLAND-LA PAZ (2 DAYS/ 1 NIGHT) S.I.C.

The tour starts in the city of La Paz at 3640 meters above the sea level, and continues along the enormous high plateau all the way to the Titicaca Lake located at 3810 meters above the sea level. You will cross the strait of Tiquina which is the narrowest part of the entire lake, dividing the small side known as Wiñaymarka and the big side known as Chucuito. Continue the trip along the Peninsula of Copacabana where you will see lots of agriculture terraces built during the Tiwanaku and Inca civilizations. Accommodation in Hotel Rosario Lago Titicaca, www.hotelrosario.com/lago and enjoy lunch at the Kota Kahuaña restaurant. After lunch, you will take a motor boat to the Sun Island and you will visit the Pilkocaina Temple. Optional hike or boat towards the Fountain and the Inca Staircase. Enjoy the view of the mountain Range of the Andes. Back to Copacabana and enjoy dinner at the Kota Kahuaña restaurant.

Lake Titicaca and the Island of the Sun, home of the Aymaras

The legendary Lake Titicaca is the best known attraction of Bolivia for it’s pristine Andean beauty, the magnificent landscape surrounding it, its trails and Inca ruins, and its small bays with Totora boats.
Lake Titicaca is still home to the Aymaras who have maintained their language and culture for centuries with a spirituality that will touch all those who enter their world. Learn about the grandeur of this culture and be sure that your life will be enriched.

Suriki. Arrive in Huatajata, a small town on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Continue by motor boat to Kalahuta and the Island of Suriki, home of fishermen and skilled makers of Totora reed rafts, such as those used by Thor Heyerdahl on the famous "Kon Tiki" and "Ra I & II" voyages.

Ruta Manco Kapac. Day 1. Bus trip over the altiplano with vistas of snow-capped peaks, to Copacabana. Lunch and overnight accommodation in Hotel Rosario del Lago. Tour to the Island of the Sun, cradle of the Andean civilization. Visit Pilkokaina, the Sacred Staircase and Yumani, a place with magnificent landscapes and people who have kept their culture alive.

Day 2. Visit Copacabana, its beautiful Moorish style cathedral, the Stations of the Cross at the Calvary and Horca del Inca. In the afternoon return to La Paz, or continue to Puno.

Copacabana- Island of the Sun (3 days) Similar to the previous program, except that the second day is spent exploring the Island of the Sun from the North end to the South. Two nights in the Hotel Rosario del Lago.

The mysterious Island of the Sun. Bus trip La Paz - Copacabana. Tour to the Island of the Sun by motor boat, visit to Pilkokaina, Sacred Staircase and Yumani. Continue trip to Puno or return to La Paz.

Tiwanaku and the Island of the Sun.
Day 1. Tour to Tiwanaku. In the afternoon, travel to Copacabana with private transportation. Accommodation in Hotel Rosario del Lago.

Day 2. Visit to the south part of the Island of the Sun. In the afternoon, return to La Paz or continue to Puno.

La Paz-Puno or vc. Daily tourist bus' departures, arriving in Copacabana at noon . In the afternoon, continue to Puno or return to La Paz .

Puno-Cusco or vc. Daily tourist bus' departures with bilingual guide. Visit Andahuaylillas, the Inka temple of Raqchi and Pukara. Lunch in Sicuani.

Takesi
The  Takesi is a pre-Columbian way, located to about 45 minutes from La Paz city, that has a present altitude of 3200 msnm to raise to the 2200 summit of 4640 msnm and soon to lower msnm.  From his I begin his culmination we will be surprised by landscapes unpublished of this region, since it is a true work of art and technology of communication, that it invites to the lovers of trekking, the nature and the ecoturismo to the accomplishment of a beautiful dream in this part of mesodermal valleys and yungas of La Paz. To others of being trekking classic and short we propose it for which they only count on one estadía cuts in La Paz, and which they do not need much experience.

Choro (Chucura)
Choro (Chucura) From high summits of the Real Mountain range is born one of more beautiful the pre-Columbian ways, in good state of conservation. This way comprised of the road system, that from Tamanaca communicated the Plateau with the Yungas, which allowed the product interchange him. Soon it was improved by the incaico empire, used at the time of the Colony and soon in the Republic.  Its peak altitude is in opens of Chucura to 4800 msnm and its minimum altitude to it in the population of the Chairo. During its passage it is possible to find Hispanic ruins in its majority launching slips, suspension bridges, stone railings, ruins of inns, in summary it is a trip through time and of the space.

Map of the ways of the Inka