The people of Bolivia

In this post I decided to do something different and show some pictures that I took of the Bolivian people a few weeks ago.

Most of the pictures were taken in Sorata, Bolivia. Sorata is located about 3 hours northwest of La Paz. I think Sorata normally has about 2000 residents but the weekend I was there was their annual festival so there were many vistors from the surrounding communities.

The photo below was taken in La Paz, not Sorata and needs some explanation. When I first arrived in La Paz I was surprised to see a lot of people with ski masks on. It turns out that most of them are the shoe shiners and some are the trash collectors. As far as I can tell they are wearing these masks to hide themselves from the shame in their jobs. Very interesting to see.