Send Flowers to La Paz, Bolivia

La Paz fills a steep canyon below the Altiplano, with the seat of Bolivia's government at around 3,600 metres and the snowcapped Illimani watching over everything. Addresses here follow the slope: the historic centre around Plaza Murillo and El Prado, bohemian Sopocachi with its cafés and embassies, Miraflores with the big hospitals and the stadium, and, lower and warmer, the Zona Sur districts of Obrajes, Calacoto, San Miguel and Achumani, where many diplomats, expatriates and professional families live.

People who send flowers to La Paz from abroad are often paceños living in the United States, Spain or Argentina, remembering a mother on 27 May, a birthday, or a graduation at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. A local florist prepares each bouquet by hand and carries it to houses, apartment towers, ministries, offices and clinics. Because streets climb and many buildings have a porter, add the zona, the building name, the floor and a nearby reference along with the recipient's phone number.

Orders placed before 11:00 am La Paz time are delivered the same day, Monday to Saturday; later orders go out the next day, and there are no Sunday deliveries. The cool, dry highland air is kind to roses, lilies and alstroemerias, which often last longer here than in the tropical lowlands.

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