La Paz

Atix Hotel

La Paz's most stylish boutique hotel in the Calacoto neighborhood with contemporary art and a world-class restaurant. The top choice for design-conscious visitors attending events in Bolivia's capital.

Casa Grande Hotel

Well-appointed hotel in the Zona Sur offering comfortable rooms and mountain views. A reliable base for international visitors attending matches at Estadio Hernando Siles in the city center.

Hotel Europa

Classic hotel on the Prado, La Paz's main boulevard, with easy access to Plaza Murillo and the stadium. A centrally located option for fans who want to be in the heart of the action.

Stannum Boutique Hotel & Spa

Luxury boutique hotel with a full spa — essential for acclimatizing to La Paz's extreme altitude. Pamper yourself before braving the thin air at the world's highest professional football stadium.

Where to Eat in La Paz

Ali Pacha

Pioneering vegan restaurant using Andean superfoods and indigenous techniques to create stunning plant-based Bolivian cuisine. A culinary gem at 3,600 meters that's reshaping perceptions of Bolivian food.

Gustu

World-renowned restaurant founded by Claus Meyer (Noma co-founder) showcasing Bolivia's incredible biodiversity through indigenous ingredients. A transformative dining experience in the world's highest capital city.

Gustu Restaurant

Founded with support from Claus Meyer, Gustu is Bolivia's most celebrated restaurant and the perfect victory-dinner destination after watching Bolívar lift a trophy at the Estadio Hernando Siles. The menu is a deep dive into Bolivian ingredients — llama, quinoa, chuño — presented with genuine craft. Fans who want to combine their sporting trip with the country's finest table come here.

Mercado Lanza

La Paz's bustling central market where locals eat salteñas, api, and fresh juices at unbeatable prices. An essential cultural experience for fans visiting Bolivia's capital for Bolívar or The Strongest matches.

Namas Te

A beloved vegetarian restaurant in the Sopocachi neighborhood serving creative Andean-inspired dishes at altitude-friendly prices. Fans fueling up before a Bolívar match at Estadio Hernando Siles appreciate the hearty quinoa bowls and fresh juices that help with La Paz's thin air.

Popular Cocina Boliviana

Modern Bolivian comfort food in the Sopocachi neighborhood, reinventing classics like pique macho and silpancho. Where La Paz's young professionals and sports fans gather for weekend lunches.

Best Bars in La Paz

Club The Strongest Peña Oficial

The official fan club bar of The Strongest, Bolivia's most historic football club, is a shrine to the yellow and black in central La Paz. Memorabilia dating back to the club's 1908 founding covers every surface, and match broadcasts draw passionate crowds of atigrados faithful. Visitors are warmly welcomed and can purchase official merchandise on site.

Diesel Nacional

Industrial-chic cocktail bar in Sopocachi crafting creative drinks with Bolivian spirits like singani. A stylish gathering spot for La Paz nightlife that buzzes after fútbol matches.

Diesel Nacional Bar

Diesel Nacional in La Paz's Zona Sur is Bolivia's most progressive sports bar — a craft beer and cocktail venue where The Strongest and Club Bolívar fans (rivals in the world's highest football league at 3,600m elevation) coexist remarkably well over Bolivian craft ales and salteñas. The bar's multiple screens cover Copa Libertadores and international football alongside the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano, and visiting international fans who stumble in invariably become fascinated by the passion and altitude-challenged athleticism of Bolivian football. A truly unique fan bar experience.

Hallwright's

La Paz's beloved English-style pub where expats and locals watch international sports together. Screens show Premier League, Champions League, and Bolivian fútbol in a cozy, high-altitude pub setting.

Peña Boliviañísima

A traditional Bolivian peña bar where folk music performances combine with football screenings on match nights, creating a uniquely Andean sports bar atmosphere. Chicha and singani cocktails fuel passionate debates about the Bolivian national team's prospects. The charango and zampoña music between matches is something no visiting fan forgets.

Peña Huari

Traditional peña (folklore bar) with live Andean music, dancing, and singani cocktails. An immersive cultural night out that captures the spirit of La Paz's passionate, celebration-loving sports culture.

Route 36

La Paz's most legendary late-night spot, Route 36 operates as a roving speakeasy that changes location but never loses its mystique. Ask any local football fan where to celebrate a Bolívar or The Strongest victory and this name will come up—finding it is half the adventure.

Fan Attractions in La Paz

Cholita Wrestling Spectacle

La Paz's famous cholita wrestling events combine Bolivian indigenous culture with lucha libre-style theatrical combat, staged on Sunday afternoons at venues in El Alto. Bolivian women in traditional pollera skirts and bowler hats perform acrobatic wrestling bouts for enthusiastic local and tourist audiences. An utterly unique sporting cultural experience that defines La Paz.

Estadio Hernando Siles

At 3,637 metres above sea level, the Estadio Hernando Siles is the highest major football stadium on earth and a genuine pilgrimage site for football fans. Visiting teams famously struggle in the thin air, giving Bolivia a home advantage that has produced shocking upsets against Argentina and Brazil. The roar of the crowd echoing off the Andean mountains is an experience no travelling fan ever forgets.

Estadio Municipal de El Alto

El Alto's municipal stadium sits even higher than the Hernando Siles at nearly 4,000 metres and hosts the passionate local football culture of Bolivia's second-largest city. The raw atmosphere of grassroots Bolivian football here feels worlds away from European professional sport. Weekend afternoon matches offer an authentic window into South American sporting passion.

La Paz Altitude Football Experience

Local sports tour operators offer fans the chance to experience altitude football first-hand, training with local club teams at La Paz's neighbourhood pitches 3,600 metres up. The tours explain how altitude has defined Bolivian football tactics and shaped their World Cup qualification campaigns. A truly unique athletic challenge that leaves a lasting impression.

Mercado de las Brujas (Witches Market)

La Paz's famous Witches Market, where Bolivian fans buy good luck charms and talismans before important matches, blending pre-Columbian spiritual practice with football superstition. Vendors sell amulets in team colors alongside dried llama fetuses and herbal remedies. A profoundly unique cultural experience for any sports fan.

Mi Teleférico Cable Car

La Paz's extraordinary urban cable car network connects the stadium neighborhoods and gives sports fans a bird's-eye view of the stadium and city at a height most cities' aircraft barely reach. The Red Line passes directly above the Hernando Siles Stadium. A journey on the cable car before a match is the only way to appreciate the city's extraordinary topography.

Plaza Murillo Fan Gathering

La Paz's historic government square becomes an unofficial fan zone during major Bolivian national team matches, with locals gathering around televisions visible through café windows and gathering in groups to watch on mobile devices. The energy of Bolivian football nationalism in this central square is genuinely moving. Street food vendors cater to the crowds at all hours.

Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley)

Valle de la Luna — a dramatic moonscape of clay and sandstone spires just 10km from La Paz city centre — is the extraordinary fan adventure that sports visitors to Bolivia's capital combine with football and cycling events at the world's highest sports venues. The otherworldly landscape of eroded towers and canyons is a genuinely alien environment unlike anywhere else on earth, giving visiting sports fans a context for the physical conditions that make Bolivian athletics so remarkable. The sunset from the valley's highest point over the La Paz valley is unforgettable.