Tag Archives: bolivia

31 Mar
La Paz, Bolivia

Back to the travel archives this week with some characters from the streets of La Paz, Bolivia.

Back to the travel archives this week with some characters from the streets of La Paz, Bolivia.

02 Feb
Mujeres Bolivianas

MujeresBolivianas

La Paz, Bolivia

In January 2010, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales began his second term by appointing a new cabinet in which women are equally represented for the first time. Morales, Bolivia’s first president from the nation’s long-oppressed indigenous majority, is leading a revolutionary process of transformation.

However, despite such progressive reforms, many of Bolivia’s poorest women remain ignorant of and excluded from their country’s laws and policies. Limited access to basic education, health care and human and civil rights awareness continues to damage women’s lives and prevent them from playing a full, active part within their families, their community and their country.

In addition, a powerful combination of tradition and deeply entrenched cultural concepts, particularly that of machismo, restricts social change and hinders women’s ability to fully participate in, and benefit from, their country’s gradual economic and political development. Bolivian men continue to receive more and better, education, health care and higher incomes when employed. Bolivian women, particularly indigenous women, are subject to a patriarchal culture which promotes humiliation and domestic servitude and sees all too many women suffer as victims of widespread domestic violence.

Bolivian women also face significant discrimination and inequality in terms of employment. Of those women who can find work, they generally earn half the income of a man employed in the same position and with the same education.

But with the help of Morales new transformation of the country, the women of Bolivia are proving that women can fight and win for their rights as women and for a radically new type of society based on equality and self-determination by the people.

Camera: Canon G9

MujeresBolivianas La Paz, Bolivia In January 2010, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales began his second term by appointing a new cabinet in which women are equally represented for the first time. Morales, Bolivia’s first president from the nation’s long-oppressed indigenous majority, is leading a revolutionary process of transformation. However, despite such progressive reforms, many of Bolivia’s

16 Jun
Atacama Desert

I found this old bus in the Atacama Desert Bolivia/Chile border. If you look closely (see toilet paper), you can see that this is infact a toilet for the locals.
This place was freezing.

I found this old bus in the Atacama Desert Bolivia/Chile border. If you look closely (see toilet paper), you can see that this is infact a toilet for the locals. This place was freezing.

01 Jun
Train Graveyard – Uyuni

First stop on the tour of the Uyuni Salt Flats is usually this place, the Train Graveyard.
Construction on the network was started in the late 19th Century but abandoned before work was completed, leaving the train lines to fall into disrepair.

Technical and geographical difficulties, disputes with neighbouring countries over lost territory, and more recent Western interests have all taken their toll on Bolivia’s rundown railways. This wasteland, bereft of guards or fences is the cemetery where Bolivia’s once proud locomotives have found their final resting place.

First stop on the tour of the Uyuni Salt Flats is usually this place, the Train Graveyard. Construction on the network was started in the late 19th Century but abandoned before work was completed, leaving the train lines to fall into disrepair. Technical and geographical difficulties, disputes with neighbouring countries over lost territory, and more

26 May
Marching Powder

I any of you have had the chance to read Marching Powder you’ll no doubt have heard of the infamous San Pedro Prison.

Renowned and notorious as being on of the most dangerous and yet bizarre prisons in the world, San Pedro Prison is home to cocaine factory’s, market stalls, restaurants, hair dressers and even a hotel. Being in La Paz late last year, I had to go there, but I didn’t feel totally confident in taking lots of photos in front of the shotgun wielding Bolivian guards, so I could only get a couple of shots from the outside.

Apparently if you leave your passport with the Bolivian police & pay them some money you can get hold of a visitors pass to go inside, but I was feeling like a bit too much of a Gringo that day so I passed.

I any of you have had the chance to read Marching Powder you’ll no doubt have heard of the infamous San Pedro Prison. Renowned and notorious as being on of the most dangerous and yet bizarre prisons in the world, San Pedro Prison is home to cocaine factory’s, market stalls, restaurants, hair dressers and even a hotel. Being in La Paz late

25 May
Lost

With the LOST Season 6 Finale just aired, and the internet rattling with confusion and unanswered questions….
I put in my own image entitled ‘Lost?’
Photo Taken: Salar de Uyuni

With the LOST Season 6 Finale just aired, and the internet rattling with confusion and unanswered questions…. I put in my own image entitled ‘Lost?’ Photo Taken: Salar de Uyuni