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saturday 25 february 2017

carnaval de oruro

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text and photos by roylu.

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vol 2 no 1

thank you to the bolivian ministry of tourism, who graciously provided us with the invitation to the carnaval.

for more carnaval de oruro pictures please click on the link below https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzLazHhY2SmXeUJxYWFZZk05c2M?

on the cover the lead vehicle for the carnaval sumptously decorated with kitchenware made of silver, a metal importan to the spanish empire, and a plaque declaring the carnaval to be the oral and intangible masterpiece of humanity.

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1 today, in oruro a small bolivian city -fifth in the national roster -with an outsized reputation first as the boom-bust mining center of the spanish empire and now as home to the carnaval one of the most regarded in the whole of south america 2 with reason

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| 3 many reasons 4 and not counting historical, religious, and others that fall within the purview of academic text 5 here be colors more than you can pin a name to

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| 6 except maybe the name explosion 7 not mainly because of the hints of physical violence there but the sheer raw abundance that assault the senses crowd into the lens making autofocus not only a digital luxury but mental challenge as well 8 then not only sight but sound

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| 9 most groups were accompanied by a 50 or more piece brass band or other bands with non-brass instruments the math alone of the total number of instruments involved is staggering if not downright defeaning if that were not enough the bands of late have had to do some of their own choreographed moves 10 and for the first time this year an all female band the candelarias

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| 11 then the dancers too with their own sound making instruments the most intriguing were the hand rotatable clickclacking instrument clad in either a dried up baby armadillo complete with the quills or a wooden or silver facsimile thereof

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12 then to think we caught only about 7hrs of this extravaganza that was to last until midnight or the wee hours of dawn 13 which that it last that long was fine by most including vips of several countries and the country’s own vice president who gamely danced posed for pictures suffered media interviews and generally did as the regular guy romans did when in rome

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14 not to put anyone down but i thought with the sinulog i knew a thing or two about carnavals 15 stepping out of that world into another makes one realize that yes you only know a thing or two in fact there is more much much more that is the same but different and it takes all these to enjoy all that

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