Aymara New Year
June 21st 2007 I met up with some friends from Cochabamba in La Paz to celebrate the New Year of the Aymara (aka Winter Solstice). This is a celebration of the winter solstice/shortest day of the year/new year. It was freezing, it was dark, it was crowded, and I´m pretty sure that everyone had a great time. I know I did. We arrived from La Paz around 7 at night, got the last room in a hotel (2 single beds f
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