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Excursions


The Escuela Runawasi organizes a number of optional excursions to areas throughout Bolivia. You might want to take advantage of organized trips to the following locations, or go exploring on your own!

Tunari | Photos
One-day excursion to Tunari mountain, with 5' 200 m the highest mountain of the Tunari Cordillera, which limits the city of Cochabamba at the north. It is the habitat of condors, vicuñas, lamas, vizcachas, Andean wild geese and many others.

Tropical rainforest of Cochabamba | Photos
Three days in the tropical rainforest of Cochabamba. Bathing in the rivers, walks through the jungle.

Catavi | Photos
Three days in the mining center Catavi-Siglo XX, that at a time was one of the biggest tin producer of the occidental world. Practical classes with emphasis on Bolivian history and actuality.

La Paz | Photos
La Paz is the highest de facto capital of the world, situated between 3' 200 and 4' 000 m above sea level, between immense plains and majestic mountains. The Illimani, symbol of La Paz, rises protecting this impressing city, center of commerce, finance and government. It is a city full of contradictions, with a majoritarian Aymara population and a vast cultural diversity.

Tiwanaku | Photos
Tiwanaku is considered the most important culture of the precolumbian period in Bolivian territory and in South America. In the course of two millenaries it achieved important advances in science and art. Proofs are the cultivation and irrigation techniques in beds on flat land, and terraces on the hill sides. Also surprises their architecture where they put on record astronomical knowledge molded delicately into different types of lithic materials. Its capital, also called Tiwanaku, is situated at 70 km west of La Paz at an altitude of 3' 845 m above sea level. (Archeol.. Guide Bolivia, Archeol. Javier Escalante M.)

Incallajta | Photos
Is the biggest complex of inca ruins found until now in Bolivia (ca. 25 ha). The main building is a hall of 81 to 27 m. The construction method of Incallajta follows the classical Inca model: a strategically situated peninsula surrounded by three rivers and dominated by a fortified mountain. (Archeology in Cochabamba - UMSS)

Torotoro | Photos
Is a national park with an enchanted landscape. It has caverns with stalactites and stalagmites, dinosaur footprints, giant turtle fossils , cave drawings, precolumbian fortresses. It is 5 hrs by car and 20 min. by plane from Cochabamba.

Sucre | Photos
Known as the "White City of the Americas", it is the historic and legal capital of Bolivia, which has maintained its colonial character. Its university attracts students from all over Bolivia and the neighbor countries. Its museums, culture and handicrafts make a visit memorable. A mute witness, protagonist of the region's history, a deity for the native, a 1' 400 year old cedar tree can be visited in the garden of the Recoleta Museum. On Sundays, Tarabuco becomes a market and meeting place for the magnificently dressed Tarabuqueños, descendents of the Yamparaez warriors, who defeated the Spanish conquerors in several occasions.

Potosi | Photos
Founded in 1545, during the colony Potosí was the most important town of the continent, bigger than London or Paris at that time. The town is dominated by the Cerro Rico - the Rich Mountain, where hundreds of thousand men, the native mitayos and the black slaves, imported from Africa, disappeared. The visitor of this town-museum will feel moved to the Middle Age. Nearby are the hot springs of Tarapaya, a volcano lagoon, which distributes its water to several thermal resorts.

PLEASE NOTE For excursions to the rainforest, and trips to the tropical lowlands, or to Brazil, a yellow fever vaccination is necessary.

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