Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ACCOMMODATION AND EATING
Meals and food
Basic meals and food supplies are available in the main villages, though it's
advisable to carry at least some of your own supplies.
Camping
In Chojila, enterprising locals have terraced some ground to create a campsite with
gorgeous views over the lush subtropical valleys below. Yanacachi has several basic
alojami-
entos
and places to eat.
Chulumani
From Unduavi on the road from La Paz to the Yungas, a side road heads east towards the
provincial capital of
CHULUMANI
, providing a dramatic ride as it plunges down from the
high Andes into the lush vegetation of the Yungas. Chulumani is far less touristy than Coro-
ico, though its setting - at an elevation of 1640m, on a steep hillside overlooking a broad
river valley - is equally scenic. With its palm-shaded plaza and steep, dusty, narrow cobbled
streets, lined with scruffy houses with red-tiled roofs, Chulumani is a typical Yungas town,
and makes a perfect base for exploring the surrounding countryside. In the 1950s, however,
it was notorious as a hideout for fugitive Nazi war criminals, including Klaus Barbie, the
“Butcher of Lyon”, who reputedly once sold fruit juices on the plaza.
