this kids went APESHIT when i paid them for the photo not in coins, but in a 3L of inka cola.
this kids went APESHIT when i paid them for the photo not in coins, but in a 3L of inka cola.
check out the dryhump blog for more nighttime saya action…
popular art: anticuchera and temptation scene
cusco: veggie restaurants here rule. $1 gets you three courses, which in this case included gluten “bifstec” or tarhui (wierd pre-col cream of wheat like putty)
nazca: legume emporium
el alto: lucha libre. the mandatory tourist ticket, over 4x more expensive than the local one (imposed racially “unless i could prove bolivian citizenship”) pissed me off, as did the separate, closer (worse, in fact, but more prestigious) seating for tourists, but whatever, i paid extra and sat in the bleachers. my favorite characters were the surlier chola, the chubby everyman goodguy wearing a wifebeater with a stretched out, faded, barely-recognizable HOMER SIMPSON plastic-transfered on it, and “el cobarde,” with goth facepaint, a pomp, a dracula t-shirt, and rockabilly styling (rocket from the crypt, anyone?!?)
lots of different varieties of potato at the FERIA DE LA PAPA
el alto: korean melodramas selling well in the aymara community
many different varieties of OCA at the FERIA DE LA PAPA
beautiful cholita skirts in the infinite sprawl of markets that is 14 de septiembre, la paz
cactus-flowers for aymara ritual offerings in witches’ market, la paz
miscellaneous hechicerÃas: dried starfish, aromatic CRYSTALS (kid you not), herbs, spices, tinctures…
