Bolivia

“I can stitch up your chin if you want,” the young woman told me as she pressed yet another alcohol-soaked cloth onto my bleeding face. A monkey peered at me from the window. I could hear the cries of exotic birds. My clothes were still covered in mud, and everything hurt.

“Have you…” I struggled to find the right words; I didn’t want to offend her or seem impolite. “Have you ever stitched a human face before?”

              Sucre, Bolivia I had already spent over a week in Sucre by the time Kerri joined me – I was familiar with its cobbled streets…

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Without a doubt, my three-day tour in the Salar de Uyuni – the famous salt flats of Bolivia – was one of the highlights of my trip so…

The Post Office in La Paz, Bolivia I almost never write these sorts of “advice” posts, let alone location-specific ones, but I was inspired by the fact that, after sending a box…