Tiwanaku Full-Day Trip from La Paz
La Paz, Bolivia
- 8 hours (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Get a glimpse of Bolivia’s Pre-Columbian past with a visit to Tiwanaku. Just two hours from La Paz, this site features structures dating back 15,000 years. On this comprehensive tour you’ll visit museums of ancient treasures, the Temple of Kalasasaya, the Gateway of the Sun, the Akapana Pyramids, and the Pumapunku Stone complex. Your tour ends with convenient transport back to your hotel.
- Visit Tiwanaku and learn the history of this ancient civilization
- Full-day guided tour from La Paz
- Entrance fees and lunch included
- Convenient roundtrip transport from your hotel in La Paz
What's Included
- Local taxes
- Lunch
- Local guide
- Pick up (Select Hotels only)
- Drinks
- Gratuities
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
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Pickup details
Drop off point: City center at 4pm approx. (San Francisco Church)
Operating hours.8:00 am
Itinerary
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
3.2
based on 12 reviews
Karina_H, Nov 2023
The transportation was in an old , to small car. ( local taxis are even better) . The museum was run through in minutes without time for looking at things yourself. Although pickup at your hotel, you where dropped off in middle of la paz. It was all a rushed experience
Rob_W, Nov 2022
It was a great site to visit, obviously not as impressive as some of the others found elsewhere but a nice location to visit. Lunch was as expected- soup and meat/fish with rice etc. I felt the guide kind of ticked the boxes with his delivery of information and didn’t always understand my English but he did enough of a job to help us understand the site. Worth visiting for the archaeology and landscape.
Response from Host, Feb 2023
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We´ll work on that.
Glad to see this, we´ll improve...
Marina_C, Mar 2018
We came to Bolivia because of THIS tour. It was OK the guide was obviously a knowledgeable person but didn't put the effort we expected. He treated us fine, but like we came here to take pictures and put them on facebook not at all in our case. He would professionally complete what he intended to say at each visited site, and then quickly returned to his cell phone. It is the best combination if you have a guide who is really passionate and knowledgeable at the same time.
Ruoyun L, Mar 2018
The tour guide is not counting people. We missed a couple and bus left before the tourists in the same group realized it...
Arnar S, Feb 2018
The guide showd up on time. She was very interested in the subject matter and posessed a lot of knowlegde on the topic. Educating. The site itself was badly taken care of and the organization of it is unsatisfactory. The bus was really uncomfortable, no seatbelts for passangers. That is totally irresponsible. The traffic in Bolivia is extremely dangerous. The participants were contrary to the agreement dropped off close to the centre of the chaotic city, La Paz.
Julianne E, May 2017
Very interesting tour from the narrative to the scenery to the felliw passengers. Made me eager to find out more
NICHOLAS B, Feb 2017
The trip was excellent, the tour guide however lost people including myself because she didn't do a head count before leaving each site, other than the trip was great!
Joseph M, Feb 2017
Once everyone's been picked up took 90 mins, the drive to Tiwanaku takes about 90 mins, the first half of which is very slow as it's through the city and in places doesn't seem to be on official roads. There's very little to see at the sight - the two museums aren't particularly interesting and the site is sparse and flat the pyramid is more of a mound and the other sites contain minimal interesting content. Lunch is provided in the nearby town and was reasonable. After lunch there was a quick visit to a small site at the other side of town, then we were driven back to the main Cathedral in La Paz and left to make our own ways back to our hotels two blocks for me, several miles for others. The guide spoke in Spanish and then English and ensured that everyone was engaged. Effectively the tour was a leisurely stroll in the sun, but this sight is a poor relation compared to other pyramid sights in South America, Africa or Asia.
Britta_K, Apr 2025
Det var en kold og ubehagelig bustur ud og et vindue var knust. Glasset begyndte at falde ud i forbindelse med kørslen. Et rent held, at der ikke sad nogle på de sæder, hvor glasset faldt ud. Herefter med det samme på museum, men nogle utrolige objekter. Hvad jeg ikke kunne lide. Var at guiden havde modvilje mod at vi stillede spørgsmål. Det giver mig tankemylder. Frokosten var god nok, men vi skulle vente 20 min, på guiden og ey par. Turen hjem med bilen, gik mere behageligt, men så skulle vi skifte til en andet transportmiddel. Et offentligt, svævebanen og tage en taxa fra endestationen. Chaufføren var god nok, men jeg fik ikke lov at give ham drikkepenge.
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