Carnival starts in Bolivia

With the parades in Oruro and Santa Cruz starts the carnival celebration in Bolivia. In Cochabamba we had today the Children's parade, but due to the cold and rainy weather it was notoriously smaller than other times and I was not able to get any photographs.

It is quite notorious how different even the celebrations of Carnival are in the east and west parts of the country. Even though they are both Bolivian Carnivals, they are sure different.

These two photographs published on two national newspapers one focusing on the carnival of Oruro and the other one on the carnival of Santa Cruz give you an idea of the difference. I will post more about each of these carnivals and why they are so different.