In depth recounting of my global wandering
The Coca Museum. I’d first read about the Coca Museum at Atlasobscura which it describes as follows: “In some ways, the Museo de la Coca is an anti-defamation organization, although definitely the most bizarre of any similar group.” (I’m uncertain …
Mi Teleférico. After our visit to the witches market, we spent much of the rest of the day soaring over La Paz and into and out of El Alto on the wings of the area’s mass transit system Mi Teleférico. …
Bolivia’s first indigenous president. As for Evo Morales, he was elected to his first five-year term in 2006 and, among his early acts as president, was convening a constitutional convention. That convention drafted a new constitution that was ratified in …
De facto or de jure. This description of La Paz requires you to make a judgment. If you search the internet for the term “highest capital in the world”, you will almost certainly see La Paz heading the list. The …
Bolivia, Bolivia, have you met Bolivia. As I noted at the end of the previous post, for us, Paraguay was little more than a way stop between our days at Iguazú and our time in La Paz – the capital …