breathing badly in Potosi
If there’s a place in the world where you really do not want to catch a cold, it’s in Potosi, Bolivia. It’s the highest city in the world, and it’s altitude means the air is thin. Yes, you hardly need anything else to limit your breathing capacities. 
copyright 2001 Monica
Add to this cold and altitude, way too much vehicular pollution, a person with mild claustrophobia (more precisely, lack-of-air-ophobia) and you have one unhappy cat. Yup, that’s me. When I finally got ut, I saw stuff like this… 
copyright 2001 Monica
copyright 2001 Monica
The music was very upbeat. Yet the street dancers didn’t a crack a smile once. The juxtaposition made my day… When they were done with their show of extreme merriment, we danced up the street on our own, making the locals peer from out of their doors, and chuckle at the crazy Westerners.
