Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe
To be in Sucre during the build-up to its big festival, the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe, is to witness this normally tranquil and reserved city transform itself and embrace party fever. The fiesta...
View ArticleFiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe: Day of the Ninos
Fiesta, it seems, is ingrained in the Bolivian psyche. There is a fiesta somewhere almost every week and festivals here simply aren’t geared towards tourism. If all the tourists (not that there are...
View ArticleFiesta 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....
View ArticleFiesta 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLatin America…14 months in 14 photographs
Its almost impossible to sum up our experiences in fourteen photographs, but these represent some of our favourite places and events from our time in Latin America. Bolivia’s most colourful and unusual...
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