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Potosi’s Ch’utillos Festival (Part 1)
The Ch’utillos Festival, or the Festival of San Bartolomé, sees Potosi burst into life with a joyous (and drunken) celebration during three days of costumed and colourful parades around the city. While...
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Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe…all day…
The Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe is the biggest event in Sucre’s calendar and draws people from all over Bolivia, as participants wearing an amazing array of folkloric costumes and as spectators....
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Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe…and all of the night
A Bolivian fiesta is not to be taken lightly and you have to marvel at the stamina of the dancers and musicians who, after performing around the city for hours under a relentless sun and often in heavy...
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Cusco, city of saints and parades
“This is Cusco, there’s a parade every day somewhere in the city.” At least that was the claim of one of the many people selling tourist souvenirs in Cusco’s Plaza de Armas. Masked reveller in a...
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The many faces of fiesta
Fiesta is a serious business in Bolivia and in the six months we’ve been living here we’ve been lucky enough to take part in several. Some, like the Fiesta de San Ignacio de Moxos in the Bolivian...
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Fruit and fiesta in the desert, the lemon-infused oasis of Pica
The blaze of green cutting across the landscape is a sight for sore eyes but still comes as a shock after several days driving through the uniform browns of the Atacama Desert. At first it seems...
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The world’s biggest hen party, Tarija’s Comadres festival
“There are no wives or girlfriends today, only singles.” Was how one Chapacos (the name given to residents of Tarija) explained the comadres fiesta to me. “The women start gathering in the square in...
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Carneval in Tarija, Dia del Ninos
With only a few hours sleep under our belts following the comadres festival, which marked the start of four days of festivities for carneval, we found ourselves back at the scene of the previous...
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Carneval in the campo, fiesta in San Lorenzo
If you want to know Bolivia, go to the campo, or the countryside as its known. If you want to see tradition during carneval in the countryside around Tarija head for the small country town of San...
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Wild, wet and foamy, Carneval in Tarija
Carneval is exhausting, a lot of fun, but exhausting fun. I don’t know about the performers, who have to dance and sing their way around town while being soaked with water and foam, but a few more days...
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