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A house in La Paz

Panties and bras lamps bloomed like mushrooms, while the plants took possession of the upstairs, They climbed the walls and spilled down the stairs in a dull noise like Amazon symphony. startled, He charged and shot out, before a jaguar come out from under the couch.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

17 September, 2014

The crazy story of zebras La Paz

When I was considering a dignified exit, or the ability to call the official to say he was sick and on my second day, a pair of shadows suddenly attacked me from behind and grabbed me by the armpits. - "Go, which lacked, express kidnapping hangover breakfast!

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

22 August, 2014

Chiquitanía, the case of the toad woman

What I saw scared me, I saw a giant toad that jumped out. I also, in shorts I got on the horse and got out of there, I didn't stop spurring until I got home. My wife was horrified, I didn't recognize how old I was.

byAlicia Sornosa

26 February, 2014

The President and the bell of the Admiral Graf Spee

Tarija, a region of the south west of Bolivia, called the “Bolivian Andalusia”, a land of flowers, Vineyards, palms, willows and with a huge river called Guadalquivir, It has not stopped surprising me even when I left.

byAlicia Sornosa

29 January, 2014

A Day in the Death Road

Bolivia is full of cliffs, carriers and unpaved roads. Poor mixing. The crossing guard one of the most breathtaking trips in America and his name does not help to relax the gesture at the wheel. The Highway of Death is a path of mud and stone that wind through the foothills of the Yungas.

byDaniel Landa

11 November, 2013

Bolivia: Madidi park and the secret of Toromonas

(...) "However the most amazing thing is what it says the wizard of Ichipiamonas". -Intrigued I ask you to continue. "Parents of the gringo, came to look at Madidi, desperate to ask the witch came to the village, an old man as they say has powers, gave them coca leaves ". And hold on to the Norwegian was living among the Indians who become a kind of head or something. Since then the parents keep coming back every year (...) By Enrique Vaquerizo.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

21 June, 2013

Salar de Uyuni: the struggle of indigenous lithium

Uyuni is not a particularly pleasant, there are not many hotels and the dust seems to follow tenacious to the last of its corners. A clear, languid air of Far West goes through a village where residents peer through the cracks in their homes as withered gargoyles and cemetery nearby train seems to move horse thieves of another time.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

25 July, 2012

The Ñatitas of La Paz: a Sunday between calaveras

In La Paz, sordid and magical, merciless and surprising, spiritual and pagan at a time, the feast of All Saints held off the beaten. A week later begins the Feast of Ñatitas and the city's indigenous majority is released to the cemeteries to hold a macabre and festive feast where the main guest is death. Welcome to one of the biggest shows of the World.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

31 Oct., 2011