Otago Daily Times report: Laguna Colorada, created in 1973 mainly to protect flamingo and vicuna, covers around 7.5 hectares. PHOTOS: ELEANOR HUGHES Eleanor Hughes has an unforgettable experience travelling across the Bolivian Altiplano. Google Maps has directed us overland from Colombia to Uyuni, Bolivia, with no problem. When it’s announced that Pietro, a local guide,…
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Tourism 101: Lonely Planet’s Bolivia: South America’s diverse and intriguing jewel
More than 40-thousand dancers and musicians take part in the annual Festival of the Feast of the Lord of Power through the streets of Bolivia’s capital each May. Superlative in its natural beauty, rugged, vexing, complex and slightly nerve-racking, Bolivia is one of South America’s most diverse and intriguing nations. ADVENTURE Bolivia is not for…
Fake News: Intergalactic Band Poopó from Oruro receives its star in Hollywood Walk of Fame
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: This news appeared in Página Siete and as such I translated, although it Is a “fake star” that you buy when you are in the neighborhood …, I’m sorry this happened, This is a great band and didn’t need to fake this “news.” It’s their loss of credibility. In any case, it…
Witches’ Market declared heritage
Pagina Siete reports: The Municipal Council of La Paz yesterday declared the La Paz Witches Market as the city’s cultural heritage. Yesterday was approved unanimously by the councilors present, the Municipal Law that declares intangible cultural heritage to that area of the city. The rule, of three articles, mentions as components of the Witches’ Market…
The historical and critical narration of Querejazu about national pictorial art
Caio Ruvenal reports for Opinion: Interview with the author of the book Painting in Bolivia in the XXth Century (BBB) that is presented, in a second revised and expanded edition, next Thursday 23 at the Melchor Pinto Cultural Center in Santa Cruz. In 1989, the Banco Hipotecario Nacional, celebrating its centenary, launched the book Bolivian…
A journalist reveals the human cost of modern mining through the vivid story of a young Bolivian mine worker
Karen Hudson-Edwards reports for Science: Alicia Quispe is preparing to go to work in the adobe hut she shares with her mother, Rosa, and sister, Evelyn. The hut, located on the outskirts of the Bolivian town of Potosí, has no windows, running water, or electricity. As she walks to the job site, she carries stones…
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