2014/05/07

An ocean of houses......


La Paz  ... the highest (administrative) capital in the world.
Altitude 3650 meters.

The plane landed at the airport at El Alto; flat as a polder. Driving to the hotel in downtown La Paz we suddenly drove into a huge chasm. La Paz is built on the sides of this chasm all the way down to where the chasm becomes a valley.

Almost all the houses are built like cubes. Concrete pillars and walls of bricks in between. 



A wall of houses going up. Where the wall ends, the city of El Alto starts.  





A good looking neighbourhood in La Paz. 





La Paz, clinging to the "wall".





The city centre of La Paz. Left of the high rise building (one third of the left in the middle) is the presidential palace. 





In the background the mountain Illimani, the guardian of the city.
Illimani is 6438 meters high.



 






La Paz is a large city with almost a million inhabitants.

You can click here to see this panorama in a larger format.








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