Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: Totora, Bolivia’s architectural gem With its colonial houses -some abandoned after the earthquake in May 1998- Totora lives its present. The jewel of colonial and republican architecture evokes among its nearly empty streets and rooftops of their old buildings a warm story suspended in time. With houses 400…
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Bolivia has coffee grown at high altitude, no doubt!
El Diario reports: In La Paz airport: Manufacturers offer Café de Altura [Coffee grown at high altitude] Producers of La Paz on Monday [10/27/2014] inaugurated the first service of Café Altura [high altitude coffee] at the International Airport of El Alto in order to provide domestic and foreign visitors the best organic and quality product….
Coca-grower president knows how to harm our nation!
The ochlocracy who had been illegitimately re-re-elected knows perfectly when to do harm. In this case, tourism in the town of Rurrenabaque, Erbol reports in El Deber: A hotel and two restaurants closed in Rurre They note that since the visa is requested to Israeli citizens, tourist flow has decreased in that region. The representative…
Music for quena [Bolivian flute] wins composition prize
El Diario reports: Music for quena [Bolivian flute] wins composition prize “Four Pieces for flute and chamber orchestra” by Rodrigo Miguel Llanque Montaño, is the winning National Composition Prize ‘Orlando Alandia Pantoja’ for this year, as declared by the Jury, composed by Alberto Villalpando, Javier Parrado and Edgar Alandia. The event, organized by the Oruro…
Protected Areas of Bolivia 101
Jorge Arteaga writes in El Diario: “We should all travel to these earthly paradises” Protected Areas of Bolivia [Pics above belong to http://www.boliviabella.com/parques-nacionales-de-bolivia.html%5D Two-thirds of Bolivia are found in the Amazon that, on average, is about 200 meters above sea level (masl). Then, the Bolivian territory rises westward to reach the high plateau, about…
A book to know Santa Cruz
El Dia reports: Alcides Parejas A book to know Santa Cruz Release. It will be in the Haraganes Fraternity. History of the cruceños “is the new book that will be presented by the historian Alcides Parejas Moreno on Tuesday, October 28 in the Haraganes fraternity, under the publisher La Hoquera [The Bonfire]. A work that…
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