A Big Bowl of La Paz
April 9th 2010 La Paz is an astonishing city on first sight. I caught my first glimpse early in the morning on the night bus from Sucre and it will be forever seared into my memory. The city is encased in a steep bowl-shaped canyon and surrounded by enormous mountains that cast their dominant shadows over the city. Houses fall in from each canyon side, gripping to the steep walls and flowing down to the bottom a
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