La Paz, Bolivia
Alasitas Festival
During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.
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La Paz, Bolivia
During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Tamarugal, Chile
Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.
Potosi, Bolivia
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
Oruro, Bolivia
This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.