Los museos de La Paz

On 10 Dec I visited 3 museums in La Paz as a part of the Spanish course: Museo del Oro (Museum of the gold; pre-Conquest works made of gold, silver and copper are displayed.), Museo del Charango(Museum of the Bolivian guitar; various native instruments are displayed.), Museo del Litoral (Museum of the coast; Displays objects from the 1879 war in which Bolivia lost its sea coast to Chile.). Those are not big and not sophisticated as the Smithsonian in DC. Yet, the area itself is amazingly gorgeous. You see the pics attached here.

La Paz, la paz. The Peace, the peace. ラパス、平和。

On October 20th, 1548 this city, La Paz (The Peace) was founded by a captain commemorating the end of the civil wars in Peru under the name of La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de La Paz (The City of Our Lady of Peace).

When I walked around the area, I kind of got to know why still many people want to live here, even suffering from various inconveniencies due to the high altitude (3600M). There is the aura of inevitability: the incredible clear sky giving you refreshing feeling at any moment, the beautiful majesty of the mountains surrounding the city, which hold you in awe, and the historical obligation that we have pledged to keep the city peaceful under the name of “The City of Our Lady of Peace”.