A Few Things I Have Learned About Marketplace Bargaining

Most of these lessons travel surprisingly well across borders

Copacabana, Bolivia on the shores of Lake Titicaca [all photos by the author]

Four words that have stayed with me ever since

When I was en route from La Paz, Bolivia to Puno, Peru in December of 2009, I made an overnight stop in Copacabana in order to take a day trip to Isla del Sol in…