Sunday was another day holding a "only in Boliva" event. From 7:00am to 6:00pm the streets of this city of some 800,000 people were closed to vehicle traffic...only bikes and pedestrians.What a gas to to pedal through the streets were normaly pedestrianns nor bikes have the right of way (much less right to a life) and have only fellow cyclist to merge with. Lots of families. the busiest streets busy with bikes...the local curch even had a benidiction of the bicycles (see photo). The history is; seven years ago they held a clean air day on the first sundaday of September... the people liked it so much it stuck... Crazy that the poorest country with all its political instability can be so progressive (my definition of progressive).
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