From the Food Dictator : Citizens, today we scale the magnificent Andes mountains to bring you a favorite recipe of the proud country of Bolivia! Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Spanish: Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered to the north and…
Category: Tourism
Alasitas: Bolivia’s festival of miniature
BBC reports: Bolivia’s Alasitas festival is a bizarre buying frenzy that mixes ancient traditions and beliefs with modern-day religion and consumerism. Thousands turn out to buy everything they want in the coming year, in miniature form, in the hope that the gods will convert their dreams into life-sized reality. Imagine you could go to the…
Rajinikanth to shoot a song in Bolivia for Shankar’s ‘2.0 – Sequel of Robot’
From DNA web team: It looks like the team will first go to Bolivia to can the song and then proceed to the United States for a long shoot. Director Shankar seems to have a love for South America. May be it’s because the continent is one of the few that have not been shown…
Alasita, the La Paz party who wandered all over the city
Randy Chavez reports for Pagina Siete: Alasita, the La Paz party who wandered all over the city It started in Churumbamba, with the indigenous people, arrived in San Francisco and even the Plaza Murillo. Before the Spanish arrived to the Chuquiago valley, what is now the city of La Paz, the Aymara and Quechua Indians…
Bolivia’s growing gourmet scene: Welcome to the high life in the Andes
The Independent reports: Bolivia’s growing gourmet scene: Welcome to the high life in the Andes ’Bolivia’ and ‘gourmet’ are two words seldom seen together. Not any more, says Sarah Gilbert Tender pork neck, millefeuille of crackling, the sweetness of peaches offset by the tang of red chillies. All washed down with a spicy local syrah….
An Exhilarating (If Risky) Family Adventure in Bolivia
The Wall Street Journal reports: An Exhilarating (If Risky) Family Adventure in Bolivia The remote Salar de Uyuni salt flat is an unlikely, unnerving—and unforgettable—vacation spot By Hilary McGregor WE WERE HURTLING toward the edge of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flat in a Toyota Land Cruiser as the sun was sinking, turning the world…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 