20th Anniversary Dream Trip Contest

Great Travel Moment

Throughout my trip to Bolivia, I noticed elderly indigenous women giving me hateful looks and swatting in my direction, behavior I can only attribute to my European-like appearance and the painful past of colonialism and imperialistic greed it must signify. Instead of offending me, this behavior served to remind me to respect their culture and treat both the individual and the country itself with the dignity is has long since been stripped of.