Lake Titicaca
Saturday, May 19th, 2007This lake is quite beautiful and I am enjoying my stay. Copacabana in Bolivia was pretty boring and it was Bolivia so… Copacabana had a few gringo (and folks from other Latin American countries) hippies selling jewelry and other art. I saw the same in La Paz. I am not quite sure why someone would choose to sell their products in Bolivia given the prices are much lower. Actually, I know exactly why they are there – cheap living and drugs. Even stranger than the economic nonsense is that they make the same products that the indigenous artisans make. So, they are basically stealing the local product designs and screwing over the poor by competing against them. That’s free market for you, but I wonder if any of this dawns on them? Probably not their intention if they could think straight. The other odd thing is the number of rat nest hairdos – I’m sorry, but dreadlocks on white men look absolutely ridiculous… and grotesque.