Today, the weeklong celebration is the city's largest festival and a major showcase of Andean folklore. It has become so big that Bolivia is offering the Carnival-like event as a candidate for ...

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 ...

Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Every year on Jan. 24, at the Alasitas festival in La Paz, Bolivia, people come out in droves to pick up little idols that they hope will ...

Bolivian gravediggers unearth human skulls ... the Aymara, the massive annual festival on November 8 combines Catholicism with precolonial Inca beliefs to give gratitude to the spirits occupying ...

The festival of Señor del Gran Poder (Lord of the Great Power) is one of the biggest, most colourful and expensive celebrations in Bolivia. Celebrated annually at the end of May or the beginning ...

An Aymara Indigenous musician plays a "Tarqa," a traditional Andean flute, during the Tarqueada festival that is part of Bolivia's Bicentennial celebrations, in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday ...

Enid A. Haupt Garden south of the Castle, Smithsonian Gardens. Saturday, May 12 Bolivian Festival: Living Well Bolivia is proud to celebrate its cultures, history and heritage with a weekend of ...