Bolivia: Tarabuco Sunday Market

Day four of our Bolivia trip was spent in Tarabuco, a small mountain village. The textiles in the Sunday market are vivid, but there were many other things of visual interest as well, as we'll see in the following posts.

Bolivia: Tiwanaku Temples Against the Sky

The white clouds set against the blue skies, red stones, and yellow grass made for beautiful landscapes.

Bolivia: Tiwanaku Walls

The walls surrounding presumed temple buildings at Tiwanaku are not quite Incan in their scale and stonework, but they're impressive nonetheless, and beautifully colored by age and lichens. The orange-red stones against the deep blue skies could inspire wonderful paintings.

Bolivia: Tiwanaku Temple Walls

The carved heads embedded in the walls of what was probably a temple are one of the most striking features of Tiwanaku.

Bolivia: Tiwanaku Monoliths

Great god-figures loom over the Tiwanaku landscape.

Bolivia: The Road to Tiwanaku

On Day 2 of our tour of Bolivia, we drove from La Paz to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Tiwanaku, the ruin of a pre-Inca culture near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca. Today's set of photos is intended to convey the colorful emptiness of the Bolivian countryside as one leaves urban or historical sites.

Bolivia: La Paz Open-Air Market (3)