Advantages: A beautiful, remote location for someone who likes to get off the beaten track Disadvantages: Not for luxury seekers!
Sorata is often described as Bolivia's "hidden gem", a kind of "beach" for South America. It's certainly hidden and it's certainly beautiful, but those seeking idyll may be disappointed.
To get to Sorata from La Paz you have to negotiate a perilous mountain road. I have heard that it is a road with one of the world's worst safety records, and it is not difficult to see why. For 3 hours you toil along a remote road with a steep drop to one side. ... ...as with much of Bolivia, Sorata is at altitude, and winter nighttime temperatures can be low - so make sure you have a lot of blankets.
Food - we ate in a pizza restaurant where service was, quite frankly, appalling. We ordered drinks and food together in a group of 5, and although we were the only group in the restaurant drinks came after food, which took about an hour to materialise (though were fine when they did). A lunchtime meal was even more ...
beatlemanic 17.05.2003 (18.05.2003)
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Advantages: Idillic location; very relaxing; plenty of trekking Disadvantages: Hard to get to; very few creature comforts
...as a village square. Sorata is centered around this square with a couple of shops several café/resatuarants and a few hotels dotted around it and (along with one internet café, which costs around 15p for an hour - a slight contrast from the $4 for 15mins in miami airport on the way over).
Trekking:
The primary activity in Sorata is definately the trekking and there is cerntianly plentiy of opportunity in the surrounding area. We were embarking ... ...through the valleys. In sorata itself, there are most things that any trekker would need, and if you look around then you can find shops selling fresh fruit, cheese and eggs, as well as plenty of centres to hire guides and mules for the more arduous portions of some of the treks.
Trekking up to just over 6000m was truly breathtaking and if you have the time it is well worth doing. It is also worth climbing half way up, as there is space to camp ...
Garth87 08.02.2006
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