Travel Reference
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some miss them out altogether; and many mark roads quite clearly in areas where they have
never existed except in the dreams of planners.
It's worth buying a good map of Bolivia from a
specialist map outlet
in your home country
before you go, as they can be difficult to find in Bolivia itself. That said, you can usually
pick up a reasonably good national
road map
, entitled
Bolivia Highlights
, from the municip-
al
tourist office
in La Paz, and from bookshops and tour agencies in La Paz and other major
cities. The best
general map
of Bolivia is the
Travel Map of Bolivia
(1:2,200,000), produced
by the US company O'Brien Cartographics, which you should be able to find at any good
map outlet in your home country. Most good map outlets also sell sectional maps of South
America that cover Bolivia reasonably well.
If you're planning to do any
trekking
or
climbing
in the Cordillera Real, O'Brien Carto-
graphics produce an excellent map of that range which you should try to get hold of before
you travel. In addition, the Bolivian Instituto Geográfico Militar, or IGM produces maps at
a scale of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 that cover about three-quarters of the country. These are
very useful for trekkers or anyone planning to explore more remote areas and can be bought
from the
Instituto Geográfico Militar
in La Paz. They also sell some good smaller-scale maps
covering the whole country.
The media
Newspapers and magazines
Newspapers are sold in the street and from shops and kiosks in all major towns and cities.
In La Paz, the main quality
dailies
are
La Prensa
, which has good foreign coverage, the
