La Paz, Bolivia

The extraordinary city of La Paz is built within a giant bowl of a canyon at 12,000' with staggering views of the surrounding mountains. La Paz is endlessy colorful and provoking to all the senses. We visit the herbal markets, the coca museum, the national herbarium, and cactus populations at Valle de Luna and Hacienda Huachjilla south of the city.

La Paz and Apu Illimani	street market	medicinal herbs
medicinal herbs	herbal preparations	llama fetus, etc for mesa offerings
La Paz herbarium, photo H. Waller	Achuma, Trichocereus bridgesii	Trichocereus bridgesii,Prosopis, Ephedra, south of La Paz, photo N. Logan
Oreocereus pseudofossulatus, south of La Paz, photo N. Logan	mutant achuma, north La Paz