Bolivia Guide
La Paz
Calle Sagárnaga
Calle Sagárnaga, La Paz's main tourist street, is crowded with hotels, tour agencies, restaurants, handicraft shops and stalls. It's sometimes referred to rather dismissively as "Gringo Alley", though to be fair, catering to travellers has always been Calle Sagárnaga's main function: in the colonial era, this was where wayfarers en route between Potosí and the Peruvian coast would be put up, and several of the buildings now occupied by hotels were actually built for that purpose in the eighteenth century.