Visit a Doctor to Backpack to Bolivia???

When you decide to go Backpacking to Bolivia or to any other under developed country, or better said to third word countries there are some recommendations and advices to take into a count for a safe trip.

In the case of Bolivia I personally visited a Doctor in a travel health clinic so as to see which were the things that I needed to do to have a Safe Backpacking experience.

This is a small Summary (Please if you are planning your own Backpacking trip- YOU MUST see a doctor by your own this list is not enough)

1. Hepatitis A Vaccine - It always recommendable to have this Vaccine Applied, even more if you are Backpacking.
2. Typhoid Vaccine - You must take this dose as well if you are willing to have a REAL backpacking experience. If you plan to eat and sleep outside 4 or 5 stars hotels it's a must.
3. Yellow Fever, it's recommendable to all travelers older than 1 year of age.
4. Rabies, It's always good to have this one, just in case any lost animal bites you in the middle of nowhere. I didn't have this one, because you need some time to get the whole protection working, and I remembered to late.
5. Tetanus, This one lasts for ten years, after this time you should re vaccinate.
6. Malaria, depending on the doctor and country you might be advised to take this one as well, and it comes as pills, that you have to take one week before you reach the area of danger, then once a week and on more one week after you left the danger zone. We decided we wanted to visit Coroico, 70 Km of La Paz (Bolivia), and we were advised to take this on.
   

All this tips are Important but more important is that you visit a doctor as I said before If you are planning to go Backpacking to Bolivia or a similar place.

I have friend that already Backpacked in Bolivia

Ok let's call her, we arranged everything and one week later we were having dinner with Damian's friend Sabrina. We were all talking about the excitement of going Backpacker, in my case after 4 years of my last Backpacking experience.... and she started to enumerate all the things she did on her trip while backpacking around Bolivia.

Then she told us about the need to visit a doctor to get some advices, medicines and Vaccines applied because of the dangers for travelers, specially to backpackers for the type of hostels and transportations that they use.

We finished dinner I went back home, only thinking about this new backpacking trip that seemed to be so different to my backpacking trip around Europe, where everything was clean and tidy... and now I had to visit a doctor and get prepared to face this new place right there, in the north of the country where I lived almost all my life.