Sunday was the 1st day of a 3-week festival called Alacitas - the Feast of Plenty. There were 1000´s of people selling all kinds of things, but all in miniature. The themes of the objects are what people desire for the coming year, eg. houses, cars, food, furniture, academic degrees, passports and money. The idea is to have your mini-purchase blessed by a Yatiri (Bolivian witch doctor) and the real thing will be yours within the year. To me it all looked like a lot of tacky plastic junk but to the Bolivians these objects symbolise impending abundance.
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