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…
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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…
Alasitas in Bolivia started yesterday, today January 25, 2014, in Corona, Queens!!
Miranda Shafer reports: Bolivian Immigrants Celebrate ‘Alasitas’ Festival By Making Big Dreams Small Blanca Morales pulls out bins of miniature statues of cars and houses and bags of money at her home in Corona, Queens for the upcoming Bolivian festival known as Alasitas. During Alasitas participants buy miniature representations of the things they want in the New Year with…
A Bolivian tradition: Alasitas, a miniature fair
Today, in La Paz and some other cities around Bolivia there is a traditional miniature fair. I rather not say more as I found out a great description of it in Cultureness’s Blog: http://cultureness.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/alasitas-the-magical-place-opens-today/#comment-193 It has great pictures and a nice description!!
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