Archive for category: Bolivia

Across Bolivia I was always taken by the dress of the traditional-looking women, in their bowler hats and striped colored shawls, often with kids wrapped onto their backs; existing within the often cold, sometimes hot, Altiplano climate. Living strongly against the forces of nature.

Bolivia amid the grand colors of red, rust, yellow, purple mineral-rich mountains and the random sleepy, forgotten villages squeezed under a deep blue sky while shaked fiercely by the unrelenting, freezing, Altiplano winds. [ ... memories of travels across highland Bolivia 2002 & 2003 ]

My solitary Sunday was absorbed by a visit to La Paz’s San Pedro Prison. No, I wasn’t arrested for drugs or acts of public indecency, rather it was a straight forward tourist kinda thing.

A dread-locked youthful mural faces a traditional Bolivian street vendor in streets of La Paz, 2002.

It should have been a straight-forward overnight journey on a comfortable modern bus on a sealed asphalt highway but …