La Paz city
You can see all the blue and green tents, local markets which seem to be open almost 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can buy buy pretty much anything you need from these tents, but there is no logic or order, so you need to be prepared to spend all day looking for what you need. The dug up land is where they plan to build a big plaza to house all these markets (thank god it is not an American chain supermarket). You can also see the church and how steep the city rises up behind it. The cioty is built in a valley of a canyon, and opposite to the general trend back home, the richest suburbs are at the bottom and the poorest are at the top.
Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more 
