Sucre to La Paz by air

Sucre airport. We are leaving for la Paz.

Flying over the Andes.

A large cement factory. Part of the mountains is disappearing.

Snow and ice. 

Snow on the fields.

We are nearing La Paz. The landscape gets more and more flat.

El Alto, with more than 1,5 million inhabitants lies above La Paz, on the Altiplano. The Altiplano is here as flat as the polders in Holland.

Farms on the edge of the town.

Small fields along winding rivers.

Here you can see the claimed plots. Some of them still empty.

A huge city lies down there.

It is high (over 4000 meters) and cold. Houses are not very well isolated.  

In some places the uniformity of squares is broken by other forms. 

Almost there.....

Churches everywhere, but this one makes me think of a Russian cathedral....
To get to La Paz we have to go down into a steep slope almost into a crack in the Altiplano.