Bolivia
Women selling
[Bolivia] I’m sitting with women who come down each day to La Paz from El Alto, which is the fast-growing town 1500 feet up at the top of the canyon above La Paz. I talk to one and I understand her question: “Why would rich people want to come to Bolivia and take pictures of […]
Taking a break in La Paz
[Bolivia] La Paz is wild and an utterly striking place. The plane lands at 12,500 feet, and the bus from the airport descends 1,500 feet into a canyon, at the base of which sits La Paz. For 36 hours I lay in bed in my little hotel, sick as a dog from the altitude. The […]
Lake Titicaca family
[Bolivia] My ambivalence about myself as a wealthy traveler emerges. It was late afternoon, and I was walking a huge windy expanse of tundra sitting above the lake. To one side the oddly metallic and bright lake, to the other the drama and magnificence of the Andes. A place of supreme, open beauty. I came […]