Hey Runnerwolf....
Dec. 30th, 2003 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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anzu's lj, reminded me of the llama bits in despacho kits in Peru. Tho the "witch" references don't make sense... MERCADO DE HECHICERÍA
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
At La Paz’s Witchcraft Market, proud chola women sit among their goods like queens, unfailingly wearing two braids festooned behind them and bowler hats adapted from the British many years ago. What they sell: herbal-tea fusions, folk cures, coca leaves, figurines, snakeskins, slabs of llama lard to be burned in offerings to the gods, and amulets to guarantee a long and happy sex life. The market has lately begun to accommodate the growing number of gringo curiosity seekers, and booths hawking colorful alpaca sweaters and woven textiles do a brisker business than the vendors pushing dried llama fetuses.
Details: Held daily, on Calle Linares between Calle Santa Cruz and Calle Sagárnaga.
Best times: April to October.
- Source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3675363/
anzu's lj, reminded me of the llama bits in despacho kits in Peru. Tho the "witch" references don't make sense... MERCADO DE HECHICERÍA LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
At La Paz’s Witchcraft Market, proud chola women sit among their goods like queens, unfailingly wearing two braids festooned behind them and bowler hats adapted from the British many years ago. What they sell: herbal-tea fusions, folk cures, coca leaves, figurines, snakeskins, slabs of llama lard to be burned in offerings to the gods, and amulets to guarantee a long and happy sex life. The market has lately begun to accommodate the growing number of gringo curiosity seekers, and booths hawking colorful alpaca sweaters and woven textiles do a brisker business than the vendors pushing dried llama fetuses.
Details: Held daily, on Calle Linares between Calle Santa Cruz and Calle Sagárnaga.
Best times: April to October.
- Source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3675363/
