Bolivia, Tarabuco

Tarabuco, a small village several hours from Sucre, is famous for it's Sunday open air market which apparently boasts the highest quality tapestries in the whole of Bolivia. So we took a 3hr bus journey to see what all the fuss was about and we weren't disappointed. Instead of shopping however, we spent the day people watching and soaking up the atmosphere. The market sold everything you can imagine from beautiful tapestries to bags of coco leaves and took over the entire village, filling every street corner with improvised stalls.

The locals weren't too keen on being photographed and we had been warned to be careful with our cameras, so the older the better.

Almost all the people in the village were wearing black rubber sandals like the ones below, which are carved out of tyres. They dedicated several streets to footwear stalls, nearly all of them offering the number one footwear brand in Tarabuco...MICHELIN.