Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

You can sell an awful lot of worm medicine on a bus in the Andes

You can sell an awful lot of worm medicine on a bus in the Andes

issue 11 September 2004

At Cerro de Pasco, we found a bus for Huànuco. Cerro is a mining town in the high Andean plain, and feels like it: stark, cold and treeless, thin air, thin dogs, thin people. But busy: it was dusk and half the town seemed to be milling around the bus station contemplating the same journey as us.

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