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Hotel Don Quijote About 1km outside town on the road to Coripata 02 2136007, hotel-
donquijote.net . This long, stable-like bungalow hotel has dark but cool net-curtained rooms
with private bathrooms, as well as a restaurant, bar, spacious swimming pool, ping pong and
billiards tables, and uninterrupted views of the horizon. It is popular with Bolivian weeken-
ders and foreign tour groups alike. Bs200
Hotel El Viejo Molino 1km from town on the road to Caranavi 02 2895506, hotelvie-
jomolino.com . Isolated on the far northeastern fringe of town, the perfectly perched “Old
Mill” has an air of exclusivity about it. Although the rooms are slightly musty, they're very
comfortable and m oreover the hotel also has a lovely large pool, restaurant with wraparound
vistas and a sauna. Bs420 ($60)
Hotel Esmeralda 400m above town up Julio Zuazo Cuenca 02 2136017, hotelesmer-
alda.com . This large hotel has great views, an attractive garden and pool, and a reasonable
restaurant. There's a wide range of dorms and rooms; the best of the latter have private bath-
rooms and bamboo balconies with stunning vistas. There's also table football, internet access
and a book exchange, and breakfast is included. If their free transfer service isn't there to
pick y ou up from the plaza or bus terminal, they'll refund your taxi fare. Dorms Bs75 ; doubles
Bs180
Hotel Gloria Linares 02 2407070. A slightly dilapidated colonial-style building with an
edge-of-town location. The en-suite rooms are bright and pleasant, though a little small, and
come with TVs; make sure you get one facing the valley rather tha n the car p ark. There is
also a lounge with panoramic views, a modest pool and a restaurant. Bs300 ($43)
Villa Bonita 100m past Hotel Bella Vista on the road to Caranavi, 7191 8298,
Villa_Bonita05@yahoo.com . Amid the laidback, familial environs of their raspberry-col-
oured home and leafy garden - site of a great café also --friendly Bolivian-Swiss couple
Ninfa and Gianni have three lovely, wooden-shuttered rooms and a four-berth cabin. Ninfa
offers free yog a clas ses at 4pm on Mon; gifts of fruit or vegetables are appreciated. Cabin
Bs260 ; doubles Bs100
EATING AND DRINKING
There's a good variety of places to eat, including several European-owned places, as well as
a number of interchangeable restaurants around the plaza serving gringo fare. The best-value
places are in the Mercado Municipal , a block south of the plaza on Sagárnaga; there's also
a cheap Comedor Municipal and assorted nocturnal food stalls on Héroes Del Chaco, just
north of the plaza and at the convent of the Madres Clarisas, diagonally opposite Carla's
Garden Pub , the nuns sell home-made cakes, biscuits and wine; just ring the bell to be let
in. Nightlife can get quite lively at weekends in the high season, and many of the restaurants
double up as bars.
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