Alasitas Market

At Alasitas you feel like Gulliver in the land of the dwarves. The market is an endless succession of stalls where you can buy miniatures of everything imaginable and the tradition is that you buy a yatiri, or hechichero and then bathe the objects in incense smoke. This is said to call Ekeko, the god of wealth and the Apus, the spirits who live in the Andes, with the goal that you get what you have purchased in minuature. There are replicas of dollars, euros, passports, food, bags of cement, cars, snuff, and other craft stalls and there are many places to eat.

If you are in La Paz in January-February it is a MUST!