Archive for January 2008
Bless Your Car at Copacabana Cathedral
Copacabana, on the shores of glittering Lake Titicaca, is the gracious entry point for most travelers entering Bolivia from adventures in Peru. It’s a beautiful town, not for its architecture or form as much for the astounding grace and variety of the ...
What’s cookin’ in La Paz
La Paz, at 3,360 meters above sea level (that’s 2 and half times as high as Denver, Colorado), is not an easy place to cook. Altitute affects how long it takes to cook quinoa–and believe me, after a stomach-rumbling hour ...
Fiesta de las Alasitas, La Paz
Today in La Paz marked the beginning of the Fiesta de las Alasitas. A religious festival, precided over by a jolly-looking Ekeko (“Dwarf” in Aymara, the local indigenous language), January 24th is your chance to have all your wishes come true for the New Year. Originally a festival celebrating an ...
The rotton roads to Chulimani, Bolivia
Taking a bus to Chulimani should not be the death-defying experience it is. Four hours from La Paz, the ride leaves the cold, high altoplano to ramble deeper into the Yungas cloud forest, an unpaved road threading the edge of mountain ...
Christmas Eve in Cusco, Peru
On Christmas Eve, my sister and I wandered through the Christmas Market in the center of Cusco. The entire town fills up with campesinos looking to sell everything from bread to firecrackers, ...
From the Heights of Machu Picchu…
I have nothing against the other wonders of the world, but if they don’t involve an exhausting, stunning, rainy, and breathtaking (watch that altitute!) hike to reach ‘em, then forget it: I prefer Machu Picchu. Nothing felt so deserved as the glorious, sunshine day my sister and I walked onto ...
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