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Crazy Carnaval Days and Nights
Photo: Sergio Saavedra Patiño Oruro’s most famous festival is a riotous celebration of all things Bolivian With each year’s approach of Lent, an eruption of vibrant colours, noises and spiri...
Beer to stay?
Photo: Alex Melean What does the future hold for craft brewing in Bolivia? I'm drinking an Artesana Cobriza Red Ale in La Paz’s Cafe Vida near the Witches’ Market. It’s full-bodied but light...
Always Ready for Action
Photo: Agencia MARKA REGISTRADA It's halftime at the Estadio de Villa Ingenio on a ferociously sunny day in a dusty corner of El Alto. Always Ready are two-nil up to Real Potosí, and ‘the Red Fur...
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Think You’ve Cine It All?
Vuelve Sebastiana. 1953 Photos: Courtesy of Fundación Cinemateca Boliviana The Bolivian film industry is small, but it’s a vital part of the country’s cultureBack in the horse-drawn-car...
If You Zamponnabe My Lover
Photo: Renata Lazcano You've got to learn to playIt's been described as ‘the communication between the human world and nature,’ as a vital expression of Andean culture and, more prosaicall...
Bridging Many Worlds
Photo: Janana Lourencato Elvira Espejo Ayca’s multidisciplinary approach to lifeAymara artist, weaver, narrator of oral tradition, documentarian, poet, singer, writer and curator of La Paz...
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Recommendations
ACTIVITIES/NATURE Valle de las Ánimas Description: A mere one-hour bus journey from the city just east of La Paz’s Zona Sur, the spires of el Valle de las Ánimas hang over a ca...
Editorial by Caroline Risacher
When asked about what unifies them as a nation, Bolivians agree on three things: a yearning for access to the sea, a love of dancing and celebrations (during which beer becomes the main source of hydration) and the national football...
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