Bolivia Guide
La Paz
Shopping
1 Los Amigos del Libro Mercado 1315 at Colón in the city centre By far the best bookshop in La Paz, with a good selection of books in English and Spanish, including many of the various travel guides to Bolivia and other South American countries, some trekking and tourist maps, plenty of glossy coffee-table books, and international magazines like Time and Newsweek. They have another branch in Zona Sur at Av Montenegro 1410, San Miguel, while the area near the university at the bottom end of the Prado is home to several other bookshops selling books (Spanish only) as well as stalls on the street selling bootleg copies of novels by Latin America's best-known authors.
2 Mercado Lanza At the end of Avenida Camacho This market sells a wide range of fresh fruit, vegetables, tinned and dried goods, as well as kinds of imported wines and spirits, often for less than they cost in their countries of origin.
3 Mercado Sopocachi Guachalla and Ecuador Mercado Sopocachi vends a good range of supermarket food and drink, with a wide selection of imported goods, though as you would expect of a wealthy suburb, things are a bit more expensive here.