ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Day 9-10, La Paz, Bolivia</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <span class="textbg">Day 9-10, La Paz, Bolivia (39 images)</span><br> <span class="textsm"></span> <p class="desc"><p><span class="textreg">Click a picture to see a larger view.</span><br> <span class="textreg"><br><br> <a href="../Day%2011-12,%20Titicaca%20and%20travelling%20to%20Cusco/index.html">Go to next index page: Day 11-12, Titicaca and travelling to Cusco</a> <br><br></span> <hr size="1"> <a href="target0.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0800.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="352. Oruro, outside the train station" border="0"></a> <a href="target1.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0796.jpg" width="154" height="92" title="350. Oruro. With bus from the train station towards La Paz." border="0"></a> <a href="target2.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0809.jpg" width="154" height="115" title="353. Oruro." border="0"></a> <a href="target3.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0818.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="354. Monument, celebrating miners. ther eused to be a great mining industry in this area, but unfortunately in later years it's been less prosperous." border="0"></a> <a href="target4.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0837.jpg" width="154" height="106" title="357. View from along the road." border="0"></a> <a href="target5.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_008.jpg" width="154" height="83" title="358. From the road," border="0"></a> <a href="target6.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0965.jpg" width="118" height="154" title="387. Hotel Rosario, La Paz." border="0"></a> <a href="target7.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0928.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="368. View over La Paz - its official name is Nuestra Senora de La Paz. It's situated at an altitude between around 3400-3700 m. The richest parts of the city is the lowest (because of the milder climate). Above the city lies El Alto, which is a new city, sprung up because of people moving there in the hope to better their means." border="0"></a> <a href="target8.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0932.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="369. Another Valle de la Luna. It's sand/clay sediment, where parts has been washed away by rain, causing the interesting formations." border="0"></a> <a href="target9.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0861.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="362. From the Witch's Market, La Paz. There you can buy herbs, medicines, amulets and offerings for Pachamama, and get advice from herb specialists and fortune tellers." border="0"></a> <a href="target10.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0868.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="363. Street from the area around." border="0"></a> <a href="target11.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0878.jpg" width="118" height="154" title="372. San Francisco cathedral at Plaza San Francisco." border="0"></a> <a href="target12.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0873.jpg" width="154" height="112" title="373. We visited during the Easter festival - and there were stalls outside selling sweets and chocolate eggs - and people dressed up in their finery like these to ladies." border="0"></a> <a href="target13.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0895.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="374. Plaza Murillo. With government buildings, a cathedral and the national bank (tall building at the back)." border="0"></a> <a href="target14.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0893.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="376. Middle point in Bolivia - and our guide explaining about it." border="0"></a> <a href="target15.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0902.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="378. Street with old, colonial style houses. They are looking dilapidated because no one is interested in keeping them up. We found them very pretty, of course, but in Bolivia, newness is a sign of prosperity and social standing, and people don't generally want to associate themselves too much with the colonial times." border="0"></a> <a href="target16.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0949.jpg" width="154" height="92" title="382. From a street market, La Paz." border="0"></a> <a href="target17.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0950.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="383. Street market, La Paz." border="0"></a> <a href="target18.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0960.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="386. City buses." border="0"></a> <a href="target19.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_031.jpg" width="154" height="125" title="390. Street stall." border="0"></a> <a href="target20.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0967.jpg" width="154" height="149" title="393. An Easter procession with a relic and saint statues coming back to its church - which was situated right beside my hotel (I was leaning out of my 3rd floor window to take these photos). I took as many as I could and this and the following are a selection. All the while, the orchestra was playing loudly and cheerfully with lots of oomph and banging of drums :)" border="0"></a> <a href="target21.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0973.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="396." border="0"></a> <a href="target22.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0974.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="397." border="0"></a> <a href="target23.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0976.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="398." border="0"></a> <a href="target24.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0985.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="399." border="0"></a> <a href="target25.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0987.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="400." border="0"></a> <a href="target26.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0989.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="402." border="0"></a> <a href="target27.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0991.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="403." border="0"></a> <a href="target28.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0993.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="404." border="0"></a> <a href="target29.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0996.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="405." border="0"></a> <a href="target30.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0998.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="406." border="0"></a> <a href="target31.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1001.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="408." border="0"></a> <a href="target32.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1005.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="409." border="0"></a> <a href="target33.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1006.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="410." border="0"></a> <a href="target34.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1007.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="411." border="0"></a> <a href="target35.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1008.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="412." border="0"></a> <a href="target36.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1012.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="413." border="0"></a> <a href="target37.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1015.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="414." border="0"></a> <a href="target38.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1021.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="imgp1021.jpg" border="0"></a> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="95,1,129,44" href="frameset.htm"> </map> </body> </html>