Thursday, March 13, 2008

New and old photos...













View of La Paz from El Alto












Exploring a back street of El Alto
Fortune tellers read coca leaves in these small sidwalk rooms. My fortune was disconcertingly accurate.







Swimming in Lake Titicaca

Three girls I befriended on La Isla del Sol. If you squeezed their bear's paw, it sang twinkle twinkle little star. I tried teaching them the words, but instead of singing, they jumped up and down yelling, "canta mas! canta mas!"








Suma looking skeptical as we cross Lake Titicaca. Sea sickness came fast.





Lake Titicaca










Ruins at Tiwanaku





Suma and Val on a free afternoon, hiking in Yotala, twenty minutes outside of Sucre.








Yotala










Visit to a traveling Bolivian music troop.













Exploring the heights of Sucre.












Woman in Sucre, taking a break from selling her textiles to tourists.
















La vista del bus on my way to the hot springs.












Young miners on Cerro Rico.













Miners children selling stones from the mine, found us the second we emerged.



















Miners on lunch break.















Me looking ridiculous.



















An ex miner demonstrating his dynamite. We bought coca and 90% alcohol from the market to bring to the miners and offer to El Tio, the devil of the mountain.




Cerro Rico



Kids playing with our cameras in Potosi.












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