Day 14. Flight to La Paz. This entire vacation is just go go go. La Paz is basically a city on a mountain, with red unfinished houses built in whatever space they could find, on hills rising up and up. I’d find it impossible to live in a city where you have to go onContinue reading “Peru and Bolivia: Part II”
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Peru and Bolivia: Part I
Day 1. Arrival in Cuzco. Hostal Qorichaska, located on a small uphill street off the main square, the Plaza de Armas. Streets full of woven colors, children and elderly women with papooses. At an altitud of about nearly 3,000 meters, I was finding it so hard to breathe; the heart just can´t keep up withContinue reading “Peru and Bolivia: Part I”
An assignment, translated
¨What should I write my first blog entry about?¨ I ask my sister. It´s Thursday night and I´m talking to her on chat like always. I´m already in bed with my pajamas on, and she´s in an office in Chicago with her cup of afternoon coffee. ¨Write about your soup,¨ she says without having toContinue reading “An assignment, translated”
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