The Return of Street Art in Córdoba and then Santiago
To start with, let’s get one thing straight; I haven’t been to Argentina recently. I wish I had, but I was last there in mid 2009, and then only briefly […]
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Santa Cruz: the surprisingly Bolivian city
I’ve probably never been so full of preconceptions about what I would find in a town as I was when the bus brought me into Santa Cruz. From the Che […]
Sucre celebrates two hundred years of ‘independence’
For as long as I have been in Sucre the city has been fixated on its impending bicentennial. On May 25th the city would celebrate what the giant posters festooning […]
Pujllay means Play
It’s very hard to draw a defining line between work and play in Bolivia. There is none of the stoic solemnity surrounding work that seems to be the norm in […]
Tiahuanaco in a Storm
My well-connected host in La Paz had emphatically described Tiahuanaco, the mysterious name of a lost civilisation, and of their grand ceremonial centre, now a ruin on the route from […]
