På gång i La Paz, Bolivia under året

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  Alasitas

  24 jan – 15 febStor festival

  The fair of miniatures opens at noon on 24 January and runs for weeks: you buy a tiny house, a tiny truck or a tiny degree certificate, have it blessed, and wait a year. It takes over the parks. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Altiplano rainy season (1 dec – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Carnaval and the ch'alla, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Carnaval and the ch'alla

  13–18 febKarnevalStängningar

  Two national holidays, water bombs in the street for days beforehand and the ch'alla, when households bless the house with alcohol and streamers. Offices and many restaurants shut for the week. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Alasitas (24 jan – 15 feb), Altiplano rainy season (1 dec – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Holy Week walk to Copacabana, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Holy Week walk to Copacabana

  18 mar – 25 apr · vanligtvisPilgrimssäsongTrångt

  Thousands of pilgrims set out from La Paz and El Alto on Holy Wednesday to walk about 140 km to the shrine on Lake Titicaca by Good Friday. Buses to Copacabana fill and the lakeside town is packed that weekend. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Carnaval and the ch'alla (13–18 feb), Altiplano rainy season (1 dec – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Holy Week walk to Copacabana

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Holy Week walk to Copacabana (18 mar – 25 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Fiesta del Gran Poder

• Säsong

  Altiplano dry season

  1 maj – 30 sep · vanligtvis

  Bright still days, hard frost overnight and the Illimani in view from most of the city. It is the reliable half of the year and the only sensible window for the Cordillera Real.

• Festival

  Fiesta del Gran Poder

  20 maj – 20 jun · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångtStängningar

  Tens of thousands of dancers in heavy costume take the streets for a full day, at nearly 3,700 metres, in the biggest folkloric entrada of the year. The date moves with Trinity and is announced late. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Fiesta del Gran Poder, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Aymara New Year

  21 junStor festival

  The winter solstice is a national holiday and the sunrise is met at Tiwanaku and at a dozen sites around the city. It is bitterly cold at dawn and the buses out leave around midnight. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Altiplano dry season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Fiesta del Gran Poder (20 maj – 20 jun (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Altiplano dry season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Independence Day

• Helg

  Independence Day

  5–7 augNationell helgdagStängningarTrångt

  6 August is Bolivia's national day: schoolchildren, civic groups and the military parade around the main square, flags hang from every building, and banks, offices and many shops close. Streets in the centre are closed for the parades. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Altiplano dry season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Altiplano dry season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  La Paz founding anniversary

  15–25 okt · vanligtvisStor festival

  The city marks its 1548 founding on 20 October with civic acts at Plaza Alonso de Mendoza and an open-air runway show of chola pacena dress at Plaza Tejada Sorzano around the same days. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Todos Santos, Fiesta de las Natitas

• Festival

  Todos Santos

  1–2 novReligiös högtidTrångt

  Families build home altars for their dead with t'antawawa bread babies, sugarcane and sweets on 1 November, then carry them to the cemeteries on the 2nd, when the Cementerio General fills with music and food. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Fiesta de las Natitas

  8 novStor festivalTrångt

  On 8 November devotees bring decorated human skulls to the Cementerio General to be blessed, crowned with flowers and offered coca and cigarettes. Visitors can watch; ask before photographing anyone. Källa ↗

Lugnt — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

• Säsong

  Altiplano rainy season

  1 dec – 31 mar · vanligtvisMonsunRisk

  Rain and hail arrive most afternoons and the steep streets run as rivers; the worst weeks bring mudslides on the slopes above the city and shut a road or two. Mornings are usually clear.