Heads up, it’s La Paz street art
On first inspection, La Paz is a hard city to love. It may be one of the most dramatically located cities in the world, tumbling, as it does, down the near vertical sides of an enormous crater, with...
View ArticleLa Paz street art II
Heads or tails? After the previous head-fest, here is a quick run through some non-head related street art from the city of La Paz, Bolivia. Next up two lovely pieces from the Sopocachi area, just off...
View ArticleThe hanging effigies of Bolivia
Glimpsed for the first time from the window of a speeding taxi, the mind and body have a visceral reaction to seeing someone hoisted on a lamppost, swinging in the wind, a rope around their neck. It...
View ArticleBolivian Sunset
It might be my love of the sundowner that makes me an aficionado of the sunset, but the stunning extremes of colour that sunsets provide is something I’ll never tire of watching – especially if it...
View ArticleThe many faces of fiesta
Fiesta is a serious business in Bolivia and in the six months we’ve been living here we’ve been lucky enough to take part in several. Some, like the Fiesta de San Ignacio de Moxos in the Bolivian...
View ArticleCholita keepy-uppy
This is my favourite piece of street art…from the streets of La Paz.
View ArticleStreet Life
One of the defining characteristics of life in Bolivia is the way it is lived to a large degree outside. I guess this is a trait of a hot climate and a legacy of Spanish cultural influence that has...
View ArticleViva La Paz, countdown to departure
La Paz is a city like no other. Snow-capped mountains form a surreal backdrop to the city, while gravity-defying houses tumble down the side of the crater in a way that is both beautiful and...
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