Cable Car Exploration & Shaman Encounter: Discover El Alto and La Paz

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Embark on a cable car exploration and shaman encounter in El Alto and La Paz. Discover the vibrant city from the sky, visit a local shaman, and explore offbeat spots with an amazing guide.

Duration: 3 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Mi Teleferico - Ride the amazing Cable Cars!
Cementerio General - Learn about our local customs and culture and visit the open air street art musuem in this amazing cemetery
El Alto Market - Visit El Alto, on Thursdays and Sundays walk through the incredible market. Here we take in the view of the city below and visit a local shaman to have our fortunes read!

What's Included

Cable Car tickets
Tourist entrance to the cemetery
Amazing local bilingual guide

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Additional Information

One of the best ways to experience this vibrant and unique city is from above! Join us at 2pm for an adventure that reveals the true essence of La Paz, featuring its incredible cable cars, the intriguing cemetery district, local shamans, and the lively city of El Alto, all guided by an amazing guide. This is one of the most breathtaking city tours in…

Location

The Steakhouse

We meet at 2 PM inside The SteakHouse restaurant on Calle Murillo. Please note the guide will be wearing a Red Cap and the maximum time of wait is 7 minutes).

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Cami_kahlan

Aug 22, 2025

El Alto - Rem accompanied us on this tour, perhaps less touristy but definitely very interesting. Prepared and rich in information to begin to understand some aspects of Bolivian culture. Highly recommended!

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Elisabeth425

Jul 24, 2025

Must do experience - Amazing, interesting and informative introduction to burial culture and remaining indigenous beliefs. We took the minivan and then the cable car. Matt was an excellent guide!

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268chassitym

Jun 29, 2025

Highly recommend! - I highly recommend this tour. The sites were interesting and the guide was engaging and informative. My guide, Ramberto made sure I got to see and experience everything I wanted. Great tour!

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Louisetooms

Jun 4, 2025

Great walking tour with Denise! - We did the Extended La Paz Adventure and Cable Car City Tour with Denise. It was really fun taking the local bus and cable car, and interesting learning about the history of the cities. Denise was really knowledgeable and friendly!

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Samantha

May 21, 2025

Very interesting and fun experience - This was a great tour. Rem was an amazing guide, he had such interesting information and was very kind. He is very knowledgeable on a range of topics and I learnt a lot.

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Dimitris_g

Apr 22, 2025

Good experience - Nice tour of la paz, guide was flexible despite some dramas on the city so the tour was adjusted not to visit the cemetery, which in all honesty was potentially not worth it - I guess unless it's the day of the dead celebration.

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Clairedeluney

Apr 10, 2025

A great way to see life in La Paz - Daniel was a really knowledgeable and friendly guide who gave us some great insights into traditional and modern Bolivian culture and life. The views were fantastic both of the city and of the mountain. He kept it fun and showed us how to get about the city like a local. He really earns his tips which are extra to the fee that seemed high in comparison to other local experiences.

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Josia

Apr 2, 2025

Super Tour with Daniel - It was a great tour with Daniel. He explained everything to us great and answered our questions. I recommend this tour 100%.

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I289ntmatthewp

Jun 21, 2025

Sadly, a waste of time - After going on the Red Cap city walking tour, which was really good. I decided to go on the extended tour with the Cable Car included. Sadly it seemed a waste of time, it ended up involving going up on the Cable Car to El Alto, walk around for a little bit, get your fortune read (if you wanted to) and come back down again. I think it was unusual, but 10 people out of the 12 wanted their fortunes told and no-one could speak Spanish, so Matt (who was very good as tour guide) had to translate and every reading took about 20 minutes. So it was a long wait. The views over La Paz were nice, but definitely wasn't worth the 20 US Dollars of mainly sitting around, I did get a slight refund, as normally a visit to the Cemetery would be included, but due to the protests and road closures, the cemetery closed early.

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Vanessa

Apr 18, 2025

Disorganized and Disappointing – Not Worth the Price - I booked the extended walking tour including the cemetery, El Alto, and Cholitas match through my hostel. While our guide was friendly and it was great to see areas I wouldn’t visit alone, the tour felt disorganized. A lot of time was spent figuring out transport, and key experiences like the coca leaf reading didn’t happen. There were no planned bathroom or snack breaks, and not even a simple bottle of water was included despite the 280 BS ($40 USD) price. At the cholita’s match, there were no seats reserved, just leftover ones towards the back near the door so we had to stand in the aisle way to get a view of the show (which was half over when we arrived). After the show, my group members and I were confused how to get back via bus because our guide left. We had to ask a guide from another tour company how to get back. Overall, the experience didn’t meet expectations and I wouldn’t recommend given the price.

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up to 10 guests

1 - Adult