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If you're traveling by public transportation, your first destination will be
Ventilla
.
Micros
leave from La Paz (B$12, three hours) hourly from 7am until noon from the market area
above Calle Sagárnaga, at the corner of Calles Rodríguez and Luis Lara. Another option
for groups is to charter a taxi (around B$350 for up to four people) to the
Choquekhota
trailhead
. Most La Paz tour agencies can organize this for you or contact Fundación
Pueblo (
Click here
)
.
You can also take an urban
micro
or
trufi
(collective minibus that follows a set route)
from La Paz to Chasquipampa or Ovejuyo, then trek through the beautiful Palca Canyon
(and the Valle de las Ánimas) to Palca and then to Ventilla. This will add at least one extra
day to the trip, but will be a fitting prelude to the longer trek.
Transportation between Ventilla and the
San Francisco mine trailhead
is sparse. You
will probably have to pay for a taxi, or hike two or three hours uphill to the trailhead.
