ah...to be back in a teeming city! la paz is the defacto capital of bolivia, located in the north western part of the country. it is home to about 1.5 million people, who all live at 3,660 m. in a big canyon, surrounded by the gorgeous bolivian cordilla real mountain range. the city sprawls the base and walls of the canyon and offers a busy, lively, daily pulse of traffic, people, and markets. not a place for those in fear of over stimulation. you can find just about anything and everything on the streets, being sold by the "duenas" (bolivian women) dressed in traditional clothing that consists of colorful, robust skirts and sweaters, with big embroidered shawls and little top hats. typically, their hair will be braided in two long braids that stream down their backs
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