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El Choro Trail

From the mountains to the jungle

Description

The El Choro trail is a popular hiking route in Bolivia that connects the towns of La Cumbre and Chairo, crossing the Bolivian Andes. The route is approximately 60 kilometers long and can be covered in 2 to 3 days, depending on the hiker’s pace and stops.

The El Choro trail is known for its breathtaking scenery, which includes snow-capped mountains, canyons, rivers, waterfalls and forests. It is also possible to see a great variety of flora and fauna, such as condors, foxes, vicuñas, among others.

National Park Cotapata  – El Choro Trail

4,860m Max / 1,280m Min 

Basic / Moderate

3 Days / 2 Nights

Day 1. La Paz – Apacheta – Villa Loa

From your hotel in the city of La Paz we head towards “La Cumbre” (4.700 m.), and we will go a little further with the vehicle to Apacheta. There the porters and cooks organize the camping equipment to carry during the trip, we begin the trek to Villa Loa descending the well preserved Inca Trail in the valley of the same name, (7-8 hours of walking).

Day 2. Villa Loa – Sandillani

We will walk a few minutes until we reach the river where we will cross to the other side to continue to Buena Vista and continue to the next river of jukumarini, then an important point will be the slope of the devil that will be the steepest slope of the trek, finally we will arrive to saldnillani, this day we will walk about 7-8 hours.

Day 3. Sandillani – Chairo – La Paz

Today is the shortest day as we continue descending gently and continue on a zig zag road to Chairo (1,300 m), where our adventure will end and where our vehicle will be waiting for us to return to the city, our time walking is around 3 hrs.

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Bolivia’s El Choro Trek is an Experience You Don’t Want to Miss

Alpine peaks and lush rainforests come together on the El Choro Trek, and while I never know what this incredible hiking trail has in store for me, the discovery alone makes me follow its roads time and time again.

Bolivia is a world all its own. I’ve travelled the globe and cannot compare it to anywhere else I’ve ever been. While Patagonia’s world-renowned treks—such as the Torres del Paine W Trek —feel like you’ve stepped onto a peak somewhere in the Alps, trekking Bolivia is something else entirely — it’s almost untouched by time. People still live in the countryside, nurturing their cutlure and practicing traditions like they have for thousands of years. With barren alpine terrain dotted with glacial lakes on one side, and exotic rainforests bursting with life and color on the other, the El Choro Trek feels like a world tour of hiking packed in only four days.

Pros and Cons of Hiking the El Choro Trek

What i love about trekking in bolivia.

So, how come this isn’t on the list of the best hikes in the world ? I think it’s because Bolivia is a locals destination. I’m originally from Argentina, where I guide for Montañas de una Vida. Kids in Argentina and the neighbouring countries can’t wait for the day they get to go explore El Choro; it’s almost like a rite of passage. Even though I’m a native Spanish speaker, sometimes not even I can understand the locals because there are roughly three dozen officially recognized Indigenous languages. Bolivia lets you get lost in its authenticity. While it follows the lesser known parts of the 500-kilometer-long Inca Trail network, El Choro isn’t your typical tourist trek. Consider this an “off the beaten path” version of hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu . 

Bolivia has huge, 6,000-meter tall mountains, perhaps the tallest in all the Andes, save for the tallest peak which is actually in Argentina. The whole landscape looks like you’ve been transported to the Himalayas, with its mountains and valleys. This is where it gets interesting. Where you would normally find alpine forests, Bolivia boasts rainforests. You’ll find yourself in the driest place possible and the wettest the next day. It’s truly an ever-changing adventure!

Hiking the Iconic El Choro Trek

Tourists usually hike the El Choro Trek in three days, but if you ask me, it doesn’t do it justice. Four days is the way to go. (You can check out the El Choro Trek  route map on FATMAP ). If you do it in three days, you’ll have to hike for more than 10 hours a day and you’ll barely get to look around and soak in the ancient beauty of the place. Four days is a much more chill ordeal and a better opportunity to connect to this wild and unique place. This allows you to get to know the locals, as well. Bolivia’s nature is beautiful, but what will take your trip from pretty good to unforgettable is experiencing the local culture — there is nothing like it anywhere else on the planet. 

Day One: Trekking through the high alpine terrain 

As opposed to starting from La Cumbre, a small town south of the trek, I prefer my first day starts in the heart of the action. I always skip the not-so-scenic three-hour mining road route from town and start the trek in Huayna Potosí. All you have to do to get here is take a mini van from La Paz. Right off the bat, you get to see those mountain views you came here for. From there, I go on a short hike up to a pass. The 400-meter elevation gain hardly feels like a chore, since you get to see amazing glacial vistas along the way. 

The trek dives down into a deep valley where the first campsite awaits, Samaña Pampa. I set up camp in the shadow of big mountains, which are to thank for the beautiful alpine views. Even though it’s far above the treeline and alpine, the terrain is surprisingly easy to hike. The real challenge is the altitude, so make sure you keep track of your health!  

Day Two: Linking up with the Incan trails

On the second day of your El Choro Trek, you’ll finally see those Incan features the area is known for. From paved steps to ancient ruins, this is the day to walk among history and possibly my favorite day on the trek. Since we’re leaving the high alpine terrain, it’s only natural that this is where the trek turns downhill. We’ll be losing 2000 meters of elevation, to be precise. Local flora only amps up this experience. Yunga is a special type of Andean vegetation, and it’s in stark contrast to high alpine terrain hiked only the day before. It’s not quite like the vegetation you’d find in the Amazonian rainforest, but it is the perimeter of it. It gets wetter, it’s warmer and this is where I start shedding some of the layers off. 

The trek winds through a bunch of small, authentic Andean villages including Challapampa. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see how the locals live. They live in nature, but with nature as well. From the materials they’ve gathered to build their houses to the way they grow their own food, I promise it’s going to be unlike anything you’ve seen. It might make you want to live a simpler life, too. The second day marks traversing from one environment to the other.

Day Three: Hiking among clouds and with wildlife

The trek gets crowded on the third day, but not in the way you might think. While you might encounter a local here and there, you’ll actually see a lot of the native wildlife. From condors flying overhead to restless hummingbirds, this part of the trek is buzzing with life. As we make our way down the hill, we’re nearing Río Jucumarini. One of the forest’s inhabitants that calls that same river its home is the spectacled bear, also known as the Andean bear or the Jukumari bear. They’re the only bear species that lives in South America and they kind of look like reverse raccoons. The fur around their eyes is lighter and makes them look like they’re wearing glasses, which earned them their name. I haven’t seen them that many times, but there are lots of birds to make up for it. 

By now, we will have dove into the rainforest. It’s humid, it’s even hotter than the day before and there are clouds forming in the pit of the valley. They’ll be climbing up its walls, but we’ll hike through them and eventually surpass them and reach Sandillani. How often do you get to say you walked through clouds?! The trail dips down the Incan steps once again, taking us closer to the river.

Day Four: Back to civilization

The final day won’t ask too much from you. In comparison, it’s milder and allows you to cool down as your El Choro adventure comes to an end. All that’s standing between us and Chairo is an easy three-hour hike. We’ll see Incan tambos, cattle enclosures, which still stand to this day. The Yunga gets even more colorful than the day before and wildlife more active, giving us a gorgeous send-off.

My Insider Tips for Planning Your El Choro Trek

El Choro is a true moderate trek that any outdoor enthusiast can do. However, there are a couple of things to keep in mind before you dive into this wild place. I listed everything you’ll need to make this trip your favorite adventure yet. 

When to visit El Choro

You’ll want to plan your El Choro Trek anywhere from April to October, with April to August being the high season. Summers in Bolivia are monsoon season, so expect rain. Winters are colder, but they are also drier and there aren’t as many tourists. If you go too early, there might still be snow, which adds unnecessary difficulty.

Watch out for altitude sickness

If you can, fly in La Paz a couple of days prior to your trek, ideally three or four days. La Paz itself stands at 3,640 meters, which is very high above sea level. The altitude will hit you straight away. Don’t stay at La Paz on your first day. The Moon Valley is an area that sits 400 meters below La Paz and is a great place to sightsee and explore while you get acclimatized. I advise you to have a checkup prior to your trip. Your doctor can even prescribe medication to ease the whole acclimatizing process. 

Who can hike the El Choro Trek

If you don’t lead an active life, skip this trek. The terrain isn’t too challenging, but the trek does require you to be in good physical shape. You’ll be hiking long distances and doing it really high above the sea level. Elevation gain and loss can hit you harder than you might think. It’s very demanding for your legs, even if it’s mainly a downhill trek. You’ll actually be wanting to hike uphill. 

Can you hike this trip solo

El Choro Trek can be a solo adventure. However, hiking with a local guide might be that one thing that takes your experience from memorable to unforgettable. Part of the appeal of the El Choro Trek is its doability. However, if you don’t start your trek in La Cumbre, the route can get difficult to follow. Having a guide means taking any guesswork out of the game, from permits to where to get water. Most guiding services offer a chef, too. Food is arguably one of the best ways to get to know the culture. I can’t stress this enough, but the locals really do make this trip a one of a kind experience. Any chance you get to get to know them — use it!

Do you need a permit

You do need a permit to hike the El Choro Trek. You can obtain your permit in Samana Pampa. Once you’re in, you won’t have to worry about campsite reservations and such. As far as logistics go, this trip is a breeze.

What to pack for your El Choro Trek

While going from one extreme environment to the other is part of the appeal of the El Choro Trek, it does require some preparation on your end. Make sure you pack waterproof layers that are easy to take off in the more humid and warm parts of the trek. Since the trek is mostly downhill, you’ll want to wear sturdy hiking boots with lots of ankle support. Your regular 30L day pack is all you need, but make sure you pack an additional water bottle, as it’s better to have extra than find yourself without it.

And that’s it! I hope I’ve inspired you with my description of what I consider to be one of the best hiking trails in the world. The landscape, the culture, the history — it all comes together on this trail to provide the adventure of a lifetime. If you’re planning your next big trip, I highly recommend you add the El Choro Trek to your short list of ideas. I promise, you won’t be disappointed. 

Julián is a Patagonia local who has been hiking, climbing up and skiing down its mountains his whole life. He’s one of the expert guides in Montañas de una Vida , operating in Patagonia, Peru and Bolivia. Not only does he take his clients on adventures of a lifetime, he makes sure to pass on invaluable experience which can only be gained from years spent in the great outdoors.

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El Choro Inca Trail Trek

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The El choro is one of the most famous in Bolivia, initiated by a wide, paved path that was possibly built by Inca civilizations pre and served to connect the Bolivian Andes to the Amazon. Because of its incredible changing landscapes with snow-capped peaks, Inca walls, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and lush vegetation of the Yungas valley, has become a very popular route for hikers.

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EL CHORO INCA TRAIL TREK

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Itinerary of El Choro Inca Trail Trek

Day 1: la paz - apacheta - challapampa.

Begin at 7:00 am in La Paz in transport we will go to the summit and walk up the Apacheta located 5000msnm, where we will have spectacular views, it will soon be time to descend for approximately 6 hours by an Inca route up to Challapampa where we camp.

Day 2: Challapampa - El Choro - San Francisco

7:00 continue our walk, we pass the Choro population in a path full of vegetation, through coca plantations, waterfalls, rivers .. up to San Francisco, where we have dinner and camp.

Day 3: San Francisco - Sandillani - Chairo

We begin our walk early, pass through the village of Sandillani, will cross a suspension bridge and reach the slope of the devil, after approximately 6 hours of walking we will arrive at the Chairo community, where we have lunch and we will prepare to return to Peace in transport.

Our services include

•      Private transport La Paz - The Summit
•      Private transport Chairo - La Paz
•      Local guide
•      Chef
•      Shared camping equipment, tents, cooking equipment, mattresses
•      Full lunches, , 3 lunch, 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners

Not included

•     Breakfast the first day
•      Dinner on the third day,
•      Walking poles,
•      Water and extra drinks,
•      Ticket to the community Chucura

What to bring

•      Sunblocker
•      Walking sticks
•      Hiking shoes

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Day 1: depart la paz | chucura | buena vista.

• 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner

Day 2: Buena Vista | Sandillani

• 1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner

Day 3: Sandillani | Chairo 1.264m

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• Mules or porters that will help with most of the equipment, it is suggested to limit the weigh to maximum of 10 kilos per person.
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• Camping fees
• Specialized English speaking trekking guide
• Private transportation round trip
• Medium size duffel soft-sided bag
• Camping equipment in 3 season tents, two-person tents, Sleeping Mat (foam/air), Kitchen & tableware
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The tour starts at 08:00 with the pick up from your hotel (only down town hotels). Then we head off in a private car up to the Apacheta (1 hour by car) with a height of 4.880m it is the highest point on the way to the Yungas. Around 10:00 we start the hike descending for 2 and a half hours towards Samaña Pampa which is known to be a cold valley, where we have lunch at around 12:30. After a break we continue the hike going down on a pre-Inca cobblestone path, where we observe the vegetation of this place with snow-capped mountains in the distance. At a height of 3.600m, we pass the village of Chucura. Around 17:00 we arrive to Challapampa at 3200m, here we have a hot drink while the  guide takes care of putting up the tents and prepare dinner to take a rest.

This day starts at 06:30 with breakfast, our next destination is the community of Choro which lasts around 3 hours of hiking. Around midday we have lunch in Buena Vista. Then in the afternoon at 15:00, we have a break near to a simple bridge on the Ukumarini River (it is possible to swim in the river). After resting for an hour we continue on the hike descending, on the way we can appreciate the vegetation unique of the Yungas surrounded by mountains. At 17:00 we arrive to San Francisco Camp, in this place the tends are prepared, we take dinner and rest.

After the breakfast at 06:00, we hike approximately 3 hours up to Sandillani (2000m), along the way we can appreciate the beautiful landscapes that offer this place. Also here is located Puerto Japonés (the Japanese port) – but there is at most a tap with water for refreshment. At 12:30 we reach the small village of Chairo (1300 m) where we have lunch. Then, we take a private vehicle for one hour up to Coroico (1700 m) and finally, at 15:30 we catch a public bus to return to La Paz arriving at the hotel around 19:00.

The tour includes: Private and public transport, complete board on the tour, insulation mat, tent and Spanish guide. The tour does not include: Sleeping bag, entrance fees, 2 liters of water for the first day, personal porter, private transport Chairo – Coroico.

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Choro Trek in Bolivia

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El Choro Trek in Bolivia

Join this tour and follow the ancient old Choro Trail. This trekking goes all the way from the Andes Mountain Range into the Amazon basin!

The beautiful Choro Trek is probably the best known trekking of the Yungas area and maybe even the whole of Bolivia! The spectacular descend starts from the cold, rough surroundings of La Cumbre at an altitude of around 4700 m. From La Cumbre you will hike for 3 days along a scenic trail full contrasting landscapes. In total you will descent around 3210 m, until the trek finishes in Chairo at an altitude of 1490 m.

Short itinerary El Choro Trek in Bolivia:

Day 1 : La Paz – La Cumbre – Challapampa Day 2 : Challapampa – San Francisco Day 3 : San Francisco – Chairo – Coroico Day 4 : Coroico – La Paz

• You can already go straight after the trek (on day 3) back to La Paz (4 hour ride)
• You can do the trek in private service and/ or
• You can do the trek in 4 days if you want to take it easy/more time to take pictures

Extended itinerary El Choro Trek in Bolivia

Day 1: la paz – la cumbre – challapampa, day 2: challapampa - san francisco, day 3: san francisco – chairo – coroico, day 4: coroico – la paz.

Note : The itinerary of the tour above depends on local circumstances and weather conditions and might be slightly different as described.

Important note : This trail is not very difficult to hike without a guide. But it is still a hike at high altitude, through rough landscape that is mostly inaccessible by car. Going with a professional guide who knows the area increases your safety along the way and also provides you directly with help when something might go wrong…

Included in the El Choro Trek in Bolivia:

• Transport to Starting point Trek
• Professional Local Trekking guide (SPEAKS SPANISH)
• Use of tent , mattress
• Food (from lunch to lunch)
• Transport Chairo – Coroico
• One night + breakfast in Coroico

Not Included in Tour:

• Bus back to La Paz (20 Bolivianos)
• Entrance Fee Chucura (10 Bs)
• Sleeping bag
• Tips and personal spendings
• International banking fees

Recommended to Bring:

• A good backpack of min.55 liter
• Good hiking shoes
• Warm clothes for at the top and light clothes for in Coroico
• Protection against rain, humidity (also for your camera), sun and mosquitos
• Pocket money
• Water for the first day
• Customer carries own backpack, mattress, and personal belongings (no food, or tent)
• To hire a porter who can carry a backpack of max 70 liter, you will have to pay 80,- US$ extra

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El Choro Inca Trail

The El Choro trail dates back to pre-Inca times before it was integrated into the Inca Trail network, and along the route you'll be able to appreciate not only stunning landscapes but also witness remnants of Inca engineering.

La Paz - La Cumbre - Challapampa

The group will be meeting in the center of La Paz  at around 8:00 in the morning, and we'll depart by car en route to La Cumbre 15,420 feet above sea level, our trek's starting point an hour away in the frosty Andean highlands. We'll trek up 646ft to reach El Choro , an ancient pre-Inca trail which was incorporated into the famous and extensive Inca Trail network. Along the trail we'll descend through the splendid Andean mountain landscape, in certain areas the trail has even been paved with stones by the Incas. We'll arrive at our destination, the village of Challapampa , after a 6hr descent through this astounding landscape. Here we'll set up our camp for the night.

Challapampa - Sandillani

After a appetizing breakfast we'll embark along an 8hr up-and-down trek along a gradually shifting climate as we say goodbye to the cold Andes and enter a lushly vegetated tropical zone blessed with a great amount of hummingbirds. We'll take in breathtaking views of the inimitable Yungas Cloud Forest, a high-altitude rainforest surreally bathed in clouds, and the Inca trail itself. After entering the warm Yungas valleys, we'll set up our second night's camp in the little village of Sandillani .

Sandillani - Chairo - La Paz

On our final day this pre-Inca and Inca trail will take us along semi-tropical jungle paths whose wealth of surrounding vegetation will daze you. We'll walk for about 5-6 hours among the striking flowers and large ferns to the village of Chairo on the shores of the Huarinilla River, where our private transport will be waiting to transport us to La Paz .

Tour Includes:

• Hotel Pick-up & Drop-off
• Private Transport: La Paz - La Cumbre 
• Private Transport: Chairo - La Paz
• Professional Bilingual Guide  
• Cook & Cooking Equipment
• All Meals during Trek
• Tents & Mattresses
• Hand Sterilizer Gel

Not Included:

• Breakfast on Day 01
• Dinner on Day 03
• Sleeping Bag*

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Recommended for this tour:

• Travel Insurance
• Refillable Water Bottle
• Sunglasses & Sunscreen 
• Rainponcho* 
• Trekking pole*

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El Choro Trek

• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Landscape
• 1.3 Flora and fauna
• 1.4 Climate
• 3 Fees and permits
• 4 Get around
• 11 Stay safe

El Choro Trek is in the La Paz department of Bolivia .

Understand [ edit ]

History [ edit ]

The mainly well paved stone trail was constructed before or during the Inca Empire for the transport of food and goods from the lower subtropical area of the Yungas to the bigger cities in the mountains like today's La Paz .

Landscape [ edit ]

La Cumbre, the starting point of the trek, is a very high and cold place with a few small plants and a rocky landscape. Climbing up to the highest peak of the trail, you might experience snow and strong wind. From that point on the trail goes down into a valley, where you have a humid, softer climate. There are more and more plants, and after some hours you see several rivers, waterfalls, cattle and llamas.

It gets more humid and after one or two days you enter subtropical areas with high trees and a wide variety of plants. The area is very hilly and most of the time you follow a big river. Several times you pass waterfalls or rivers on hanging bridges or on stones.

Flora and fauna [ edit ]

The first hours, after passing the summit, you will find little vegetation. Beneath Lamas, which belongs to the locals, there are barely any animals. Later, the pasture is accompanied by ferns and bushes. More and more plants encircle the trail as well as some flowers. The wood of conifers and others begins more or less close to Chucura and is more and more mixed with banana palms and subtropical plants as it goes down. Close to the end of the trail there are also coffee plants.

The most impressive animals you see are the butterflies and other insects and birds. There are a few mosquitos. One very famous bird of the Yungas region is the cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus).

Climate [ edit ]

The first part is quite cold: Snow paves the way of the first hours all year round as it leads to the summit.

After the summit you will descend through cloudy and foggy air until you find the first green valleys crossed by little rivers and some flowers. The first bushes and smaller trees are behind Samañapampa. The nights are cold here as it is still around 4,000 meters high. In general, huge parts of the trails' pavement are slippery and wet. Later, as you enter the zone with more vegetation after passing Chucura, parts of the trail are closely surrounded by wet plants. From the campsite of Challapampa on, it gets way warmer and the nights are calm. Clouds tend to sit over this site of the mountains, so it is in general quite rainy.

Get in [ edit ]

• Take a bus from the bus terminal north of Villa Fatima to any town in Yungas. There should be plenty of buses leaving frequently. Expect to pay Bs. 10 per person for a bus, Bs. 15 or 20 for a micro (faster). From La Cumbre follow the path around the Registro (red building). Don't forget to write your informations on the registro inside the building (for safety reasons).
• Take a taxi from La Paz to La Cumbre or even to the start of the Choro Trek. Expect to pay Bs. 200-300 per group.
• Take a full inclusive tour from La Paz. Expect to pay at least Bs. 700 per person.
• -16.321026 -68.054849 1 El Choro Trek start . The GPS coordinates of the start are -16.3210262 and -68.0548494  

Fees and permits [ edit ]

You need to pay Bs. 20 at Chucura for maintenance of the path and bridges.

Get around [ edit ]

Hiking is the only option for getting around. OpenStreetMap has good coverage of the area . On average, it takes three days and two nights to do the trek, but the trek is more relaxed in 4 days.

On the first night, you will probably camp at Samañapampa, which will take you at least 4 hours from the starting point. The next place to stay at night is Challapampa. In between, there are no options, and the path from Samañapampa to Challapampa takes around 6 hours, depending on weather conditions.

From Challapampa to San Francisco it takes 7 hours, and from San Francisco to the end of the trail, 5 hours. In general, you need to rest in between, as it is steep from time to time.

See [ edit ]

From the high mountains to the subtropical woods of the Yungas, you will see many different plants, colourful butterflies and many parts are close to a river, which includes spots for dipping in the water and several smaller waterfalls.

Do [ edit ]

As you will walk most of the time, you can basically watch the surroundings and dip in the water, but there are no offerings of additional activities or services along the trail.

Buy [ edit ]

• -16.28708 -68.050129 1 Samañapampa . This small registration hut sells water, soft drinks, sandwiches and a schematic map of the trek with average hiking times, distances and altitudes (Bs. 1).  
• Challapampa – At this family based ground next to the river you can buy beer, food and a cooked meal. There is also space for camping here
• Sandillani – Camp site and lodges, and a little shop contains food and drinks and the owner offers to cook as well. (The store is well stocked.) It is convenient for extending the trek to 4 days and stay here with amazing views of the route. It was closed in the past, maybe only seasonal—check ahead.

Eat [ edit ]

You should carry all your food with you. There are some restaurants and little shops on the way, but they can be closed as owners travel to buy goods from time to time.

Bring coca leaves and offer them to all the locals, that is the easiest and fastest way to make friends. Consider bringing dry fruits, biscuits and the like to offer to the kids that ask you for sweets. But consider that they have no access to dental care, so better not to hand too much sugar.

Drink [ edit ]

Being able to sterilize water is an advantage, but not necessary. Most camp sites sell 2 L bottled water for Bs. 20. You can as well drink the water of the rivers. Locals avoid drinking from the main river and use the small streams instead.

Sleep [ edit ]

You have to camp (with your own gear, you can rent it in La Paz). You should be able to camp under a roofed camp site though. The lodges on the way in Sandillani had been closed as the income was too low for the owners. There are more roofed camping opportunities, but you will probably use two of these three (in a 3 day trek):

• -16.249973 -67.982067 1 Challapampa . Camp site in the valley next to the bridge. It has electric light during the evening, pipes with flowing water, a covered table with benches, a covered place for tents, but only a squat toilet. The little shop provides food and beer. Also cooked food can be bought by the family running the place. Bs. 10 per person .  
• -16.215169 -67.938695 2 Buena Vista . Campsite with a wonderful view and fresh water, even has a shower! There is cooked food available as well. Bs. 10 or 15 per person .  
• -16.221053 -67.911513 3 San Francisco . Nice campsite with fresh water, covered table with benches and covered place for tents. The toilet may be a bit inconvenient for some people to access. The owner runs a little shop with few goods to eat and drink and if you ask him, you can also use his little kitchen. Consider leaving behind anything you might not need any more for the trek, as that is probably your last night and hot meal. She would specially benefit from a cheap batteryless light that gets recharged by winding it (€5 in Decathlon), as they have no electricity. Bs. 10/15 per person .  

Stay safe [ edit ]

Take waterproof clothes and shoes with you. There are no alternative ways to walk than via the trail and no transport options. Parts of the trail might have eroded in heavy rains or parts of bridges might have collapsed, so you might have to improvise as well. On hanging bridges, you should pass one person at a time (and mind your step when some planks go missing). The people living on the trail are friendly and helpful, but some among the older ones do not speak Spanish, only the local language.

Bring plenty of medicines. Not only there is no medical help in case you need it, there is no medical facilities for the locals neither, so they rely on tourists when they are ill. Don't be surprised if you run out of ibuprofen and plasters.

Go next [ edit ]

A taxi from Chairo to Coroico may be overpriced (Bs. 180 per group). There is no public transport. From Coroico there is frequent public transportation to La Paz for Bs. 20 per person.

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From the high Andes mountains to the low Yungas! El Choro Inca trail

Trekking: 3 Days, 2 nights

The El Choro trek is the most popular trek with tourists due to its easy accessibility from La Paz, stunning views and varied scenery. Ranging from chilly Andean mountains, down through cloud forest to semi tropical rainforest it offers a range of conditions to deal with but is also a fantastic introduction to the varied environments of Bolivia and the different conditions you can encounter trekking here.

DAY 1 – La Paz to  Challapampa – Mountains and Inca Paving

You will be picked up from the hotel at around 08:00 am.  in private transport for the 45 min to 1 hour drive to  La Cumbre (4.700 m.a.s.l.) which is the starting point for the trek. Here it can be very cold in the mornings and it is not uncommon to find snow and ice on the ground so you will need warm clothing for this section where you will start the trek which is going to lead us to the warm valleys of Los Yungas.  We will walk up to 4.900 m. and here we will find the pre inca trail and then we start to descend.  After around a  6 hour walk, we will arrive to the village of Challapampa where we will set up camp.

DAY 2 –  Challapampa to Sandillani – Cloud Forest Views    

Today is a longer walking day and involves several up and down sections . As the day goes on the vegetation becomes denser and the climate more tropical. The views are stunning and very typical of the “Yungas” cloud forest area. After around 8 hours walk we will arrive at the small population of Sandillani where we eat and spend the night camping

DAY 3 –  Sandillani to Coroico – Semi Tropical Jungle Trails

The last day involves around 5 or 6 hours walking and is mostly very hot so you will need plenty of water and it is advisable to use insect repellent. The trek ends at the village of Chairo where we will return in private transport to La Paz.  

EMERGENCIES AND SAFETY  – Our guides carry a first aid kit, cel phone and long range radios. Also for your convenience the guide will have available “gaffa” tape for repairs or patching skin hotspots (pre blister areas on your feet), shoe laces, disinfectant hand wash.

INCLUDED IN TOUR:

• Transport to the trail head (Cumbre)
• Local Spanish speaking guide
• Camping fee
• Stays overnight in tent
• Sleeping mattress
• All meals from lunch on the 1st day up to lunch on the last day
• Cooking gear
• Transport of tent, food, cooking gear

Also Available for Use Upon Request (RENT)

• Quality branded sleeping bags
• Waterproof  poncho
• Trekking pole

NOT INCLUDED

• Entrance fee
• Transport from Coroico back to La Paz by bus Bs. 25 to 30 p.p.
• Entrance fee, about Bs. 20 p.p.
• Shoes, water, snacks
• Sleeping bag: Bring your own sleeping bag or rent one
• Self-inflating mattress/iso-mattress
• Transport/porter for your own personal items
• All other costs that are not specifically mentioned
• Basic English speaking guide

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Trekking Choro (3 days)

El Choro is the most popular trek among tourists due to its easy access from La Paz, impressive views and varied landscapes. From the high Andean mountains to the semi-tropical jungle, it offers a variety of conditions to enjoy but it is also a fantastic introduction to the varied surroundings of Bolivia.

Día 1.- LA PAZ – CHALLAPAMPA – VILLA LOA.

We depart by vehicle from La Paz towards a very high place called La Cumbre (4,700 m). The journey lasts approximately an hour and a half. From there, we begin the descent hike to the communities of Samañapampa, Chucura, and Challapampa, continuing along the well-preserved Inca trail. In the afternoon, we arrive at the community of Villa Loa where we will establish our first campsite (6/7 hours of hiking).

Day 2.- VILLA LOA – BUENA VISTA – SADILLANI.

After breakfast, we started with a short hike to reach a suspension bridge that crosses the Chucura River. Along the way, we can enjoy the subtropical vegetation with a spectacular view all around. Then we walk along the hillside that leads to the Jucumarini River, pass by Buena Vista, and finally reach the Sandillani community to camp in the area. 

This hike lasts more than 5 hours until reaching Sandillani.

Day 3.- SANDILLANI – CHAIRO – LA PAZ.

We walk on a gentle slope and continue on a zigzag trail until Chairo (1,300 m), a small town that produces tropical fruits, on the banks of the Huarinilla River. The hike lasts 4 hours. This is where the vehicle awaits us to take us back to the city of La Paz.

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EL CHORO TRAIL 4D

We are going to leave our hotel in the morning on the road to Coroico and head to La Cumbre pass. It is marked by a statue of Christ and a small laguna. From La Cumbre at 4750m. to the summit of the Apacheta Chukura pass, 4860m to the highest point. We are going to get off the support vehicle and get ready for our trek. The descent now follows a clear stone patch high on the left of the valley and loosing height rapidly. Its 4 hours to walk to the village of Chukura (Achura) where we are going to have our camp at 3600m. 

Hiking time: 4 – 5 hours Camping altitude: 3600m Meals included: lunch, dinner 

Today we will start our walk in the real cloud forest in Bolivia (Cotapata National Park). We will find a magnificent paved Inca Trail towards and later arriving to the village of Challapampa Camp at 2.800m. We will arrive to Choro village, we will see more trees, colorful birds, butterflies, and flowers as orchids, bromeliads, begonias. overnight at Choro village. 

Hiking time: 5 – 6 hours Camping altitude: 2800m Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner

The area becomes wet and the vegetation more abundant. We cross the Coscapa river and start uphill through the «Devil’s hill» in order to reach the village of San Francisco at (2630m). Overnight at Sandillani (Japanese house)

Hiking time: 5 – 6 hours Camping altitude: 2600m Meals included: brekfast, lunch, dinner

On the last day, we will decent for about 3 hours in a zig-zag pathway. We finnish this fantastic trail at El Chairo at 1300m Our vehicle will pick you up and collect back to La Paz. 

Hiking time: 3 hours Meals included: breakfast, lunch

PRICE Our prices are per person based in American Dollars. We do not have fixed-departure dates per group however you can take a look at our Searching trekkers for a list of open departures. 

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• Private transport, we pick you up from your hotel and bring you back • English guide • Cook • Porter (if necessary) • Meals according to the program  • Quality tent and mattress  • Entrance fees • Pre-trekking briefing

• Sleeping bag (We can rent a quality one) • 1st breakfast, dinner on the last day • Sticks (We can rent them if you request) • Tips and other personal supplies • Additional horses for your personal luggage or to ride • Travel insurance 

• Light-warm-rain clothes • A warm sleeping bag rated from -15c 5f, if you prefer we can rent one for you • Swimsuits • Towel • Sunglasses • A high factor sunscreen • Repellent • A headlamp or torch • Hat (better to have a round hat) • Strong footwear  • Sandals or plastic flip-flops • Extra socks • Extra batteries • Passport photocopy • Medical kit and/or medicine (if applicable)

• Travelers should consider talking with a doctor before traveling to high-altitude places. You must have at least two days for your body to go through the acclimatization process. For best results, we always recommend to prepare yourself by walking more before visiting us. 

• Due this trail is quite hard you must have good condition health and fit. 

• All our guides are proffesional and a good knowledment of the trail. 

Due sometimes we get request from some solo trekkers, who wish to join a group. We have included a Searching trekkers wanted system to match trekkers who are interested in hiking the same trail.  It will allow to bring costs down and make the experience more enjoyable.  

• You have to consider to rent if necessary for the whole trip, not just the number of hiking days.  • Please, be careful to keep the renting items in a good condition, if for any reason they suffer some damage, you are responsible to pay to replace them.  • The time cited in this itinerary are approximately, all depends on the group progress.  • You have to carry your personal supplies, including sleeping bag. We recommend not to carry more than 10 kilograms. We are responsible to carry food, tents, mattresses.  • We will provide you boiled water during the whole trek, it’s important to carry purifying pills just in case. 

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El Choro trek - the most popular Bolivian hiking trail going bad

El Choro, one of the most popular hiking trails in Bolivia

El Choro trek belongs to most popular La Paz hiking areas thanks to its easy accessibility, stunning views, and varied scenery. Part of this trek is also an ancient Inca trail, but unlike in Peru, you don't have to book an agency or buy an expensive ticket to walk here. It starts in La Cumbre Pass at the altitude of 4650 m and only the first part requires walking uphill to the highest point of 4885 m, then it slowly drops through the Bolivian forest into a lovely city of Coroico at 1750 m.

How to prepare for hiking El Choro trek in La Paz

This trek requires 2-3 days, depending on your condition, so having camping equipment as well as enough food is essential. Many agencies offer an organized trek for the price a bit more than 100$, where mules are carrying all your heavy equipment, but supposedly it is quite easy to do on your own as well. We have decided for this option and on Friday morning took a bus to La Cumbre pass, where this hike starts. Right at the starting point with a map of the hike, we met two fellow travelers – a Czech guy and an Iranian girl and logically joined forces for this beautiful trekking.

Already in La Paz, in one of the agencies, they told us we are quite lucky because the bridges were destroyed by the rivers, but since yesterday it is possible to cross them again. With this in mind, we fearlessly started the trek. After 1h of climbing up, at the highest point with wonderful views, there were 6 men waiting for us. Very kindly they ask us not to continue in this trek, because it's very dangerous to cross the bridges, that they are working on fixing them and have instructions from the government not to let through any tourists.

They also recommended us another trek, which Jakub had on his little tourist map and told us it's also very nice. We thought it through a lot and eventually decided to hike the El Choro anyway – if we see we cannot cross the bridges, we will just turn around and go back... Well, it just wasn’t meant to be, a bit lower we met the men again, and they got really angry to see us again. Not wanting to risk a fight with 6 Bolivians, we rather decided to turn around...

Lucky enough to find an alternative Inca trail - Sillutinkara

After 3 hours of hiking, we were exactly at the same spot as before, at La Cumbre pass. Lucky enough to stop a bus in next 10 minutes, we asked the driver to take as to the start point of the other trek. On the way, we got a chance to see the death road, twisting like us snake on the hills below us. Not more than 30 minutes we were already at the beginning of the so-called Sillutinkara trek - one of the myriad trails that the Incas in Bolivia used to access the much larger Choro Trail. Excited we gonna hike the Inca trail, after all, we merely started trekking, keeping in mind then we don’t have much more than few hours of light left.

The first part of the path was nice, leading up on a grassy hill. It got a bit cloudy, but we didn’t mind, because together with the altitude, also the temperature dropped (we went down by bus to 3300 m). It didn't take us more than 1h to get to the top, to a small camping area where we cooked lunch and rested a bit. The ground here was very wet and I was just hoping, the other camping areas marked on the map will look better. We started to decent into to the jungle, we couldn't see anything because of the clouds but it didn't matter, soon we were deep in the Bolivian forest, surrounded but tall green trees and different kind of vegetation.

How does trekking in Bolivian jungle look?

The path down was terrible – steep and slippery and quite overgrown with small bushes and grass. Looks like this Inca trail is not frequently visited. All the greenery was wet and so were we very soon. We walked slowly, it wasn't possible otherwise, we were checking every step otherwise ended up in an ankle deep mud. It looked like the jungle would never end, after 2h of hiking, we knew we have to find a camping spot, and we knew it’s gonna be in the jungle.

Our hope was one of the camping marked on the map, but when we got there, there was just a pool of mud. What were the options we had? Go back to the higher parts, where we saw some suitable spots, or continue and hope we will find something better. In no way I was gonna go back and then down again the next day, I was determined to walk the whole night if necessary, but luckily enough after another 20 minutes, we found quite dry and flat surface, where we could make our tents – looked like somebody was camping them sometime before us. We made a quick dinner and rushed to hide from mosquitos into our tents.

Our first hiking day on the map:

Rainy night and rainy day

It was raining a little bit the night. Our tent was so bad, the rain soon started dripping on my face and I felt that everything around me is wet. We got up quite early the next day, had a breakfast and managed to pack all our wet equipment just before it started raining again. This time we didn’t even have our rain ponchos as we were expecting beautiful sunny weather just like in La Paz. Ahead of us were at least 3 hours of hiking in the jungle, in the rain, on a slippery and muddy surface. Soon we stopped watching out for where we step, we were all wet anyway.

After 3 hours of suffering, the sun finally started to appear slowly, and we have reached the spot, where Sillutinkara joins the El Choro trek. A perfect sunny spot, ideal for cooking some lunch and trying to dry all our wet clothes. It only took us another 2h of a nice sunny hike to get to our final destination, a village Choro, where we have spent a night in a local house and took a taxi to Coroico the next morning.

Our second hiking day on the map:

I guess this trail could be nice when you are lucky enough not to have rain. But as we were returning from sunny Coroico exactly in the area of Sillutinkara trail was raining again. Maybe, it’s just raining here all the time?

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• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
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• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

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Belorusskaya

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Novokuznetskaya

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Sparrow Hills

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• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

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• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
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Will it be easy to find my way in the Moscow Metro? It is a question many visitors ask themselves before hitting the streets of the Russian capital. As metro is the main means of transport in Moscow – fast, reliable and safe – having some skills in using it will help make your visit more successful and smooth. On top of this, it is the most beautiful metro in the world !

. There are over 220 stations and 15 lines in the Moscow Metro. It is open from 6 am to 1 am. Trains come very frequently: during the rush hour you won't wait for more than 90 seconds! Distances between stations are quite long – 1,5 to 2 or even 3 kilometers. Metro runs inside the city borders only. To get to the airport you will need to take an onground train - Aeroexpress.

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Paper ticket A fee is fixed and does not depend on how far you go. There are tickets for a number of trips: 1, 2 or 60 trips; or for a number of days: 1, 3 days or a month. Your trips are recorded on a paper ticket. Ifyou buy a ticket for several trips you can share it with your traveling partner passing it from one to the other at the turnstile.

On every station there is cashier and machines (you can switch it to English). Cards and cash are accepted. 1 trip - 55 RUB 2 trips - 110 RUB

Tickets for 60 trips and day passes are available only at the cashier's.

60 rides - 1900 RUB

1 day - 230 RUB 3 days - 438 RUB 30 days - 2170 RUB.

The cheapest way to travel is buying Troyka card . It is a plastic card you can top up for any amount at the machine or at the ticket office. With it every trip costs 38 RUB in the metro and 21 RUB in a bus. You can get the card in any ticket office. Be prepared to leave a deposit of 50 RUB. You can get it back returning the card to the cashier.

SamsungPay, ApplePay and PayPass cards.

One turnstile at every station accept PayPass and payments with phones. It has a sticker with the logos and located next to the security's cabin.

GETTING ORIENTED

At the platfrom you will see one of these signs.

It indicates the line you are at now (line 6), shows the direction train run and the final stations. Numbers below there are of those lines you can change from this line.

In trains, stations are announced in Russian and English. In newer trains there are also visual indication of there you are on the line.

To change lines look for these signs. This one shows the way to line 2.

There are also signs on the platfrom. They will help you to havigate yourself. (To the lines 3 and 5 in this case). 

Alex Kurtzman says there's no "shortage of Star Trek coming."

T here have been many questions about the state of Star Trek, especially with the shape Paramount+ is currently in. If it does eventually sell or is absorbed by another company, that could have a big effect on Trek, but during Star Trek: Discovery's season five publicity tour, Alex Kurtzman told CinemaBlend [ via Trekmovie ] that there was "no shortage of Star Trek incoming."

We know Section 31 with Michelle Yeoh will debut soon, Starfleet Academy is on the way, along with Star Trek 4, if that actually happens, and a Star Trek origins movie is coming down the pike as well. But with Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks ending, that will leave only Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy as ongoing series projects of the franchise until Starfleet Academy makes its debut.

We know that Paramount+ is interested in a Star Trek streaming movie every two years, but we have no way of knowing if that will actually happen once a sale takes place. In fact, we don't know what's going to happen once Paramount + is leading the streaming channel. A new executive could decide to focus less on Star Trek or to license it out to other channels for the income before greenlighting any future Trek stories.

However, Kurtzman seemed definitive about his statement, especially when he added there are a "couple of surprises coming up."

“The good news is that the health of the franchise is vibrant now. We’re shooting Section 31, we’re about to start Starfleet Academy, and there’s a couple of surprises coming up after that. So there’s definitely no shortage of Star Trek incoming.”Alex Kurtzman

So while Kurtman's declaration could be good news for Star Trek, it could also be that those surprises won't be as welcome as he thinks they'll be. As we all know, not everyone loves surprises. But, keeping a positive outlook, I'm hoping for the best as we don't know what's going on behind the scenes. But with "no shortage of Trek," hopefully, that means we'll at least have something new every year. Waiting two or three years in between new Star Trek adventures won't be a surprise anyone welcomes.

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as Alex Kurtzman says there's no "shortage of Star Trek coming." .

I got a rare look behind the scenes at Ananda’s e-bike systems factory in China

I recently took a trip to China in order to see for myself how many of the e-bike drive systems and components we use daily in the West were originally designed and produced. And no journey to view the origins of the most popular e-bike components would be complete without a visit to Ananda, one of the largest and most advanced OEMs in the industry.

I was able to visit the company’s R&D headquarters in Shanghai as well as one of their factory locations in Wuxi, giving me a close look at the design process and how those designs get manufactured into real e-bike systems.

After starting operations in 2001, Ananda has focused purely on micromobility systems since 2011. They’ve long built many types of hub motors for e-bikes and scooters, but expanded into their own mid-drive electric bike motors in 2017. And the company’s scale has grown massively ever since.

You might not have heard of the company yet, largely because they rarely advertise which major e-bike brands use their motors, controllers, and other components. But to put things in perspective, they produced around 6.5 million electric motors last year. Most of their products are built for the massive domestic market, but around 600,000 were exported to Europe and North America, where they made their way onto e-bikes we know and love. Many of the biggest brands use their systems. There’s a good chance you’ve got an Ananda motor, controller, or other hardware in your garage right now and just don’t realize it.

The company is constantly growing and a new Vietnamese factory is currently in the works, but because the North American and European markets are booming for Ananda, the company is currently working on setting up a new European factory. Ananda also recently opened up its first North American service center in Los Angeles and is expanding its local US-based team.

Ananda is responsible for designing and producing just about every component used in an electric bicycle other than the batteries and BMS. However, they work with several battery manufacturers and provide testing to certify compatibility with their extensive drive system lineup.

Their core competency is in research and development, followed by production implementation. While some companies merely design components produced elsewhere and others operate factories to manufacture third-party designs, Ananda does it all in-house, focusing on a wide range of systems ranging from entry-level to premium components.

And while Ananda started as mainly a component maker, offering their own motors and controllers, they’ve since evolved into an entire system integrator. Now they supply many e-bike brands with an entire e-bike system, minus the battery.

That all-encompassing approach has necessitated a huge footprint, with the company touting over 1,000 employees and over 200 automated machines, 70 of which are just for automated coil winding.

Ananda is also one of the most mature mid-drive motor makers in the Chinese market, now developing several higher-power models for the North American market. And with an obvious understanding of what Americans want, they explained to me that all North American motors they develop are compatible with throttles. Talk about knowing your audience!

Touring Ananda’s R&D facility in Shanghai

My tour at Ananda started in the R&D center. There, the company has a team of engineers and designers working on every component of e-bike drive systems.

A major piece of that design and development process is ensuring that each component can withstand the rigors of daily use in the harsh environments that e-bikes and e-scooters experience everyday.

I walked through rows of machines operating every type of torture test you can imagine. I saw motors being heat-shocked with high and low temperatures. I saw tanks with motors undergoing humidity testing, alternating between humid and arid conditions. Rain machines were running to keep a constant spray of water on the components. Each machine looked like a progressively worse type of condition that I’d definitely avoid putting my own e-bike through.

There were robotic button pushers who simply pushed buttons on handlebar displays tens of thousands of times. Motors were shock-loaded to simulate sudden stops and hard braking during operation; Imagine a broomstick in the spokes situation that instantly grinds the motor to a halt.

Dozens of dynamometers were set up for long-term testing, performing months of testing on constantly running motors.

Entire e-bikes were installed in full-scale testing machines to simulate long-term testing of complete systems over tens of thousands of miles.

In other parts of the R&D center, banks of 3D printers whirred away, producing prototypes that may become entirely new drive systems. One such system currently in the works is an e-bike hub motor that includes a three-speed transmission inside the hub. It will essentially become the marriage of a hub motor and an internally geared hub, offering the best of both technologies.

Across the hall, old-school technology in the machine shop contrasts with the high-tech machines, offering no-less-critical machining capabilities for fabricating and modifying new designs.

Teams of bike mechanics install test systems on mule bikes while test riders put them through miles and miles of real-world riding verification.

I even got to have a go myself, donning a company helmet and testing out several of the new motors and drive systems that Ananda has produced. I tried an M100 mid-drive motor that felt like a perfect balance of power and comfort, as well as a more powerful 750W M6100 mid-drive motor that was a lot of fun but, frankly, probably more power than I truly needed most of the time. That model is destined for the US market and is likely to be popular among riders seeking powerful performance.

I even tested a moped-style hub motor system complete with cast wheels that I was sure included a torque sensor in the drive system due to how responsive the pedal assist was. Only afterward did I learn it was actually just a really nicely designed cadence sensor that they had managed to remove almost all the pedal lag from.

After testing the e-bikes, they showed me their new diagnostic tools, which include software designed to easily diagnose issues that could arise over a lifetime of use. Instead of having an unclear error, shops or companies can simply use the software to run checks on the bikes and find out exactly what could be causing a specific issue.

Ananda’s manufacturing facility in Wuxi

The second half of the day was spent at one of Ananda’s factories, where I saw their manufacturing firsthand.

The first step is the inspection and analysis of components from Ananda’s suppliers. Workers inspect these components down to the micron level, ensuring everything is manufactured to spec. Even a small deviation in a motor shell, for example, could result in extra motor noise and increased wear.

That level of precision inspection is what separates the truly high-quality manufacturers who understand the level of accuracy necessary for consistently performing and reliable products.

From there, we moved to the factory floor, where motors are manufactured. The first step is the winding of the motor cores, which involves spools of copper wire being intricately wound around the motor’s stators.

If you’ve ever seen the way electric motors were built in years past, and honestly still in some places, you’ve probably seen videos of women hunched over tables using their delicate fingers for hand-winding motors. But Ananda’s over 70 automated motor winding machines make that a thing of the past.

Now, motor cores are not only wound without human labor, but they’re also done so much more accurately and uniformly. The beauty of robots is that they never make mistakes or get tired and sloppy; they just wind up every single motor the exact same way each time.

Those wound motor cores are then inspected before heading on to the next step of assembly into motor casings. The assembly process is a combination of manual and automated tasks. High-precision jobs, such as placing the gears and building the internal transmissions, are done using robotic assembly machines.

These sub-assemblies are then passed onto the rest of the assembly line, where they are joined by hand with the motor cases. A laser engraver serializes each motor shell along the way, and then it heads to sound testing to ensure it powers up and operates as quietly as it should.

Some motors are assembled using automated machinery, ensuring precision placement of the motor gears and components.

Each finished motor is scanned into the database and then packaged up for shipment to an OEM that will build it into an e-bike, e-scooter, or e-moped. Years ago, e-bike motors were always shipped in foam packaging for protection. But Ananda has switched to much more environmentally responsible paperboard packaging, offering equal protection without using such harmful materials that are not able to biodegrade.

Interestingly, in another part of the factory, I saw many of the same torture testing machines that I had first seen in the R&D center back in Shanghai. As I quickly understood though, this was all part of the quality control process. The same way new designs get torture tested during development in Shanghai, the factory does the same extensive testing as part of spot inspections for each batch of components produced. The motors undergo similar loading and accelerated lifespan testing to ensure they are all performing as intended, and that there aren’t any deviations from one production batch to another.

The next stop was to see how controllers were made, and that involved getting suited up and heading into the company’s clean room facility. There, automated pick and place machines built up circuit boards that then passed through various soldering machines to produce the circuit boards. The process and outputs are all monitored using high-precision 3D optical imaging, allowing the workers to inspect each solder joint from many angles and ensure all the components are properly soldered to the board. Many of these components are too small to inspect with the naked eye, and so this type of imaging and analysis allows the company to ensure every tiny little leg and every minuscule drop of solder is not only correctly placed, but also properly soldered so it doesn’t shake loose 10,000 miles from now.

Next, conformal coating is applied to electronics, creating a waterproof barrier that prevents water vapor from corroding the metals and circuits.

Each of these steps is a small but critical part of the manufacturing process, ensuring that the components produced in Ananda’s factories perform their required functions not just at the start of a product’s life, but also for many years to come.

Rooftop solar array

The last stop of the tour was something I was surprised to see. Before I left the factory, I was led up to the roof where a large solar array gathered much of the energy used by the factory.

While it doesn’t cover 100% of the company’s energy usage, it does offset a large portion and helps to further promote the same message that the electric vehicles using Ananda’s components share: that how we generate and use energy has a major impact on our environment.

These types of steps go a long way to reducing our own harmful effects on the planet. Humans will always need to travel around their cities, and using two-wheeled electric vehicles is one of the most energy-efficient ways to do it . If companies can offset as much of the emissions generated from producing those vehicles, then all the better.

The takeaway

I’ve known of Ananda’s electric motors for years, and in fact built some of my first e-bikes with their motors over a decade ago. But I had no idea how large Ananda had grown and just how much of the entire e-bike system they now produce.

Far from just another e-bike motor manufacturer, Ananda is truly an entire system integrator. Producing everything from displays to controllers and every type of motor you can think of, Ananda has positioned itself as a leader in the micromobility space.

You don’t make 10 million motors a year and several million more controllers and other components without learning a thing or two about how important the quality and precision of those manufacturing processes truly are.

The company has obviously taken all of that learning to heart, developing a high-tech and highly automated design and manufacturing system that has grown into a massive operation.

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Micah Toll is a personal electric vehicle enthusiast, battery nerd, and author of the Amazon #1 bestselling books DIY Lithium Batteries , DIY Solar Power,   The Ultimate DIY Ebike Guide  and The Electric Bike Manifesto .

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Martin Lawrence bringing first comedy tour in 8 years to OKC: Here's when to get tickets

Comedic actor Martin Lawrence will follow up the theatrical debut of his new movie "Bad Boys: Ride or Die" with his first standup tour since 2016.

Lawrence's “Y’all Know What It Is!” arena tour will launch July 20 at Gila River Casino in Chandler, Arizona, and travel across the country through April 5, 2025, at Simmons Bank Arena in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The 40-city comedy tour will make an Oklahoma City stop Nov. 16 at Paycom Center.

When is the new Martin Lawrence and Will Smith 'Bad Boys' movie coming to theaters?

Lawrence's first headlining arena tour in eight years will follow closely on the June 7 theatrical bow of "Bad Boys: Ride or Die," the fourth installment of his blockbuster buddy-cop film franchise co-starring Will Smith.

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“Y’all Know What It Is!” is billed as a fresh one-hour set where the longtime comedian "brings the real talk and finds the funny in everything from family to culture as only he can."

Special guests for the trek have been personally hand-picked by Lawrence, according to a news release. Deon Cole and Benji Brown are the on bill for the OKC show.

“Comedy gives me that instant gratification,” Lawrence said in a statement. “Seeing the fans up close and in person, making people laugh, doing what I love most, this is what it’s all about for me. But hey … y’all know what it is!”

Lawrence launched his comedy career in New York City at the Improv Comedy Club. His breakthrough film role came courtesy of Spike Lee in the cinematic classic "Do The Right Thing!" Other film roles followed, including "House Party" and "Boomerang." He soon captured the attention of mega producer Russell Simmons who tapped Lawrence to host the groundbreaking HBO series Def Comedy Jam.

In 1992, Lawrence landed his own hit television series "Martin," co-starring Oklahoma City native Tisha Campbell . A ratings juggernaut, it elevated Fox to a major contender against network television stations.

Following the finale of his self-titled comedy series, Lawrence went on to star in a string of top-grossing films, including "Life," "Big Momma’s House" and the "Bad Boys" franchise.

When do tickets go on sale for Martin Lawrence's OKC show?

Tickets for Lawrence's OKC show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, May 17 through AXS .

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Madonna Brings Massive Free Concert to Rio, Capping Celebration Tour

The pop superstar performed a final date on her global trek marking four decades of hits: a set on Copacabana Beach before the largest live crowd of her career.

By Flávia Milhorance and Julia Jacobs

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro and New York

When Madonna stepped out onto the mammoth stage constructed on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday night in a gleaming halo headpiece and black kimono, she was greeted by the largest live crowd of her four-decade career.

The free show, announced in late March, was a grand finale to the pop superstar’s latest world tour, which has delivered 80 performances since last October . Without ticket data, concert crowd sizes can be difficult to gauge; Riotur, the municipality’s tourism department, estimated that 1.6 million people flooded onto the 2.4-mile stretch of sand on Saturday that had been turned into a roughly $12 million playground surrounding the 8,700-square-foot stage.

It was the culmination of days of Madonna-mania in the city, where talk of the singer, 65, was inescapable. Her songs spilled out of stores and car stereos. Fans assembled outside her hotel and shouted her name. Updates about the concert, which was broadcast on the network Globo TV, dominated local media reports.

The spectacle in Rio was a milestone in Madonna’s career: the victory lap for her first stage retrospective, called the Celebration Tour , in which she chronicled her rise to stardom, performing hits like “Into the Groove,” “Like a Prayer” and “Ray of Light” with a cadre of dancers, four of her six children, and a wardrobe of elaborate costuming that recalled some of her most memorable looks.

“Here we are, the most beautiful place in the world,” Madonna announced early in the concert, indicating the ocean and the mountains around her. “This is magic.” Later, she expounded on her gratitude for her Brazilian fans. “You have always been there for me,” she said. “That flag: that green-and-yellow flag, I see it everywhere. I feel it in my heart.”

The two-plus-hour Rio show hewed closely to the Celebration show, with a few exceptions: Madonna added her 2000 track “Music” to the set list, rearranged as a samba with live drummers and a special guest, the Brazilian drag star Pabllo Vittar. “Live to Tell,” staged as a tribute to victims of AIDS , included photographs of the Brazilian musicians Cazuza and Renato Russo, and the actress Sandra Bréa. For “Vogue,” Madonna appeared in a sparkly dress in the colors of the Brazilian flag and was joined by the pop sensation Anitta , who helped “judge” the competitors strutting down the runway.

The show had lifelong Madonna fans — many of whom came dressed in homage to their heroine in cone bras and lace gloves — screaming and dancing along. Ernesto Magalhães, 42, adorned in the style of Madonna’s “Material Girl” era in a gown and boa while balancing on stilts, epitomized the exuberant spirit of the occasion: “I’ve been a Madonna fan since I was 8; I couldn’t miss this.” Surya Rossi, a 31-year-old illustrator, decided on a last-minute trip from Rio Claro, São Paulo, after coordinating with her cousin, and stayed with friends. “Madonna has been a tremendous influence on me, both as a feminist and an artist,” she said. “Her empowering history and approach inspire me.”

It was also something of a landmark moment for live concerts globally. At a time of astronomical ticket prices and rising production costs for major shows, a free concert attracting a crowd of this scale is exceedingly rare, especially in the United States. California’s Coachella festival, where a three-day general admission pass starts at about $500, draws up to 125,000 attendees a day. Musikfest, a mostly free music festival in Pennsylvania, welcomed about 1.3 million visitors over 11 days last year.

“To have a free show like that in recent years is relatively unheard-of,” Katelyn Yount, the director of festivals at AEG Presents, said of Madonna’s closing show. Hangout, an upcoming music festival on Alabama’s Gulf Coast that is among the annual events AEG produces, is capped each day at about 40,000 attendees, who pay more than $300 for a three-day pass.

If a performance of this magnitude was going to be held anywhere in 2024, it would probably be in Rio, where officials have experience with enormous crowds. In 2006, about 1.5 million people attended a free Rolling Stones concert at Copacabana Beach, Brazilian police and other authorities said at the time. An even larger crowd was said to have gathered for a Rod Stewart show there on New Year’s Eve in 1994.

The idea for the sprawling event was first planted two years ago, when Luiz Oscar Niemeyer, an executive with Bonus Track, a live entertainment company based in Rio de Janeiro, approached Madonna’s managers after hearing about plans for the tour. The Rolling Stones concert in 2006 helped convince him that something like this was possible, he said.

Negotiations stalled until last year, when a Madonna show in Mexico City was announced — ticketed dates for the Celebration Tour ended up wrapping with five nights there at the Palacio de los Deportes — and Niemeyer resumed his efforts to convince the pop star’s representatives and secure funding.

“It was an ambitious project for everyone, aiming to attract the largest audience of her career, and I thought this would help me persuade her,” Niemeyer said in an interview last week.

The concert’s corporate backers include the Brazilian bank Itaú and Heineken, and the government has made a significant investment as well.

Preparation for Madonna-palooza had consumed a segment of the city in recent days. A week ago, cargo planes carried about 270 tons of concert material to the city, including costumes and gym equipment. Eighteen sound and video towers were built across the beach, and last Wednesday, 4,000 workers prepared the stage in scorching heat.

Because this was the only Celebration concert in South America — Madonna last toured there in 2012 — fans congregated from all over the continent. In the days leading up to the event, a Madonna impersonator, Izelene Cristina, danced to “La Isla Bonita” at a bus station as she welcomed travelers. She would not be attending the concert because excitement over the superstar’s performance had led to a flood of bookings.

“Such is the life of an artist,” she said. “You work to move and entertain people.”

On Monday, Madonna and her touring team of about 200 arrived in Rio, heading directly to the French Riviera-inspired Copacabana Palace, the luxury hotel near where the stage was built. Later in the week, crowds gathered as close to the stage as possible, as the pop star crossed a specially built footbridge from the hotel to the stage to rehearse with some of her dancers.

Social media was flooded with clips of Madonna running through songs including the opener, “Nothing Really Matters.” “Are you happy? Are you ready?” she asked the assembled crowd at one point . The response: wild cheering. “OK, just checking,” she replied.

At a press briefing ahead of the concert, officials discussed the safety concerns that can accompany an audience of that size and unpredictable weather on the shore. Last year, the Brazilian D.J. Alok scheduled what had been billed as the “concert of the century” on Copacabana Beach, but a storm led part of the crowd to scatter, and concertgoers were faced with rampant pickpocketing , a problem at least some faced on Saturday night as well.

Marco Andrade, a spokesman for the Rio police, told reporters that the department planned to deploy 3,200 officers at the Madonna concert, compared with about 900 for Alok’s event. He said that facial recognition technology would be used at inspection areas, in addition to drones to monitor the crowd. In the end, the audience stretched into the ocean as well — a collection of boats anchored in the waters near the venue.

The atmosphere on the ground Saturday night was like a World Cup event, street carnival and New Year’s Eve celebration combined. Street vendors offered shirts, hats, cups and fans adorned with Madonna’s face and rainbow colors, and a plethora of barbecue, grilled cheese, empanadas and the Brazilian cocktail caipirinhas were available. To fight the heat, a firefighter atop a fire truck sprayed a jet of water on the crowd.

As the show ended with a remix of her 2009 track “Celebration,” Madonna addressed the audience for a final time: “Thank you, Rio,” adding “obrigada,” the equivalent in Portuguese. She smiled and let go of a Brazilian flag, flipped a white veil over her head and descended beneath the stage.

An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the Bonus Track executive who approached Madonna’s team about the Brazil show. He is Luiz Oscar Niemeyer, not Luiz Guilherme Niemeyer.

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