Photo Galleries: Bolivian Highlands 2005 Steve Hilty

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Bolivian Highlands

Steve-hilty

I sit looking out the sixth-floor window of our hotel in La Paz, and I am surrounded by a sight like no other: a 360-degree panorama of red and tan brick buildings that line the near circular cauldron in which this city lies. It is as if I am looking at a modern-day counterpart of the ancient cliff-dwelling Anasazi of Arizona and New Mexico, buildings marching up to the cauldron rim one almost on top of another. It is a remarkable city—congested, busy, noisy, and the highest elevation c... Read More