Bolivia Discovery

Customer Reviews

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  Stelios

  · August 29th, 2023
  Well organized, a lot of opportunities for extra trips or activities, excellent tour leader helpful and enthusiastic with full knowledge of the subject. Average to good accomodation, but still excellent value for money. Well planned 3 days Salar de Uyuni trip. I would recommend to GA to add more days to the program of the tour for visiting other interesting places of this beautiful country
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  Hi Στέλιος, Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback! Our world deserves more you.
  Trip date: August 2023
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  amy

  · March 11th, 2023
  Our CEO Romel is such a great guy with a lots of experiences and knowledge. He is not only take us to all the sites as designed but he is goes further, always help everyone in the group and give good suggestions. I am sure everyone in the group not only had fun yet also recieved warm welcome and especially knowing Bolivia much better. greatfull to have Romel as our CEO.
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  G Adventures commented on this review

  Hi Amy, Thank you for the kind words about Romel! Our world deserves more you.
  
  Trip date: February 2023
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  Hannah

  · February 15th, 2020
  Our tour didn’t get off to a great start due to a mix up which meant we didn’t meet our CEO until the evening of Day 3. At our welcome meeting we found out that we’d be leaving La Paz early the next morning, despite our itinerary stating it would be an afternoon flight. This meant we didn’t have time to do any of the optional activities. Our local guide Kevin was great however, and it was helpful to have him at the airport. The flight from La Paz to Sucre was listed in our itinerary as 1 hour, but the journey took 3.5 hours (not including transfers either end). Aware that things can change from our original itinerary, but we wondered why a direct flight wasn’t booked. On both planes, we were sat in the emergency seats and then made to move as we didn’t speak good enough Spanish. Extra hassle that could have been avoided. We enjoyed our stay in Sucre and it was nice to have a few days there to explore. We might our next guide Mercedes at the airport. She was also good except didn’t have the best local tips as she wasn’t from Bolivia. At our next welcome meeting we were given more information about the optional extras for Sucre. These came across quite ‘sales pitchy’ and we felt as though the more expensive options were what we should choose. We also felt that our guide should have been able to give city tours rather than us always having to pay extra for them. Prior to our Bolivia Discovery tour, we did a tour in Peru with Intrepid. They provided us with an altitude sickness log so that they could keep track of our health throughout the days at high altitude. We went even higher in Bolivia so this would have been great to have. In Potosí, we decided not to join the mine tour, both from an ethical point of view and fear of claustrophobia. Instead we had planned to visit San Francisco Monastery. Despite chatting to Ilsen about it over breakfast, we weren’t aware that we had to be there at 11:30 exactly in order to go inside. We were turned away on arrival and we were quite upset as it was the main attraction in Potosí for us. This information was also not included in the G Adventures document provided. The next tour was at 14:30, but we had our transfer to Uyuni at this time Our trip through the salt flats was set to be the highlight of the tour, and it was, but there were a few issues that made it less enjoyable. We had two vehicles for 10 passengers which was very cramped - particularly for the person who had to sit next to the luggage in the back. If we’d had three 4x4s, there would have been much more breathing space. On both days of the drive, we were in the car roughly 10 hours. This was no fun at all, and we wished we had had more time at both of the homestays. There was also some miscommunication around driving times, the actual time wild sometimes be a lot longer than Ilsen told us which felt frustrating. I would personally have liked to mix up the passengers in the cars each day - it would have given us more time to bond with different members of the group and may have helped prevent some arguments after having been with the same people for too long. Ilsen was in the other car and this meant we didn’t always know what was going on as our driver didn’t speak English. In the morning of Day 2 of the drive, a member of our group realised she had left her expensive sunglasses at the homestay. Despite being just 5 minutes away, Ilsen did not allow her to go back and get them. Everyone in the group felt this was unfair and it definitely put a downer on that day. Ilsen was very helpful in organising a sunset tour of the salt flats before our night bus to La Paz. This wasn’t included in the tour but she made sure that it was possible because lots of people really wanted to do it.
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  Trip date: January 2020
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  Carolyn G

  · August 7th, 2018
  I like the mix of nationalities and ages. Have time to yourself and as a group.
  Trip date: July 2018
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  Lillian R

  · August 7th, 2018
  Great service by the CEO Karina. Price was affordable.
  Trip date: July 2018
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  Rebecca T

  · August 8th, 2018
  Caring CEO, fun adventure, great activities. Flexibility. Karina is the best CEO for the Bolivian discovery. Super knowledgeable about the regions and cultures.
  Trip date: July 2018
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  Antonio G

  · August 8th, 2018
  It was a great, new experience.
  Trip date: July 2018
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  Angeliki E

  · September 3rd, 2018
  Loved the traveling style
  Trip date: August 2018
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  Helena D

  · September 8th, 2018
  Amazing way of seeing the highlights of a country in a relatively short space of time.
  Trip date: August 2018
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  Mark S

  · September 20th, 2018
  Good trips to meet new people and see amazing destinations
  Trip date: August 2018