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 el museo costumbrista... by marcelo15
for instance the activities, costums, presidents. it`s really interesting, i can say that visit it, it`s really worth!
este museo ofrece muchos hermosos trabajos hechos a mano acerca del pasado de la ciudad de La Paz. Por ejemplo las actividades, costumbres, presidentes. es realmente interesante. puedo decir que !la visita si vale la pena! Leave a Comment Address: calle jaenDirections: you can get the tickets on sucre st, in front of riosiño square.
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 Coca field in the Yungas near
Coroico by EagleEye
The museum is very well done and you will learn a lot about the leave, first considered as devil by the Vatican, then praised to the skies by colons, europeans and americans (from Philipp II to Freud and Pemmberton - the inventor of a famous soft drink with the word Coca in its name), and nowadays again considered public ennemy number 1... Leave a Comment Address: LinaresDirections: Above San Fransisco
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 The facade by SirRichardLeave a Comment Directions: Mostly Near Plaza Murillo And Calle Comercio
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Calle Jaen with its cobblestone street, balconies and stone doorways makes you think you are in Spain. There are four museums here: Museo del Litoral, Museo de Metales Preciosos Pre-Colombinos, Museo de Instrumentos Musicales, and the Casa de Don Pedro Domingo Murillo (first door on the left in the picture). The Museo Costumbrista Juan de Vargas is on Sucre just to the right from where the picture was taken. Leave a Comment Directions: About 0.5 km NNE of Plaza San Francisco at the intersection of Jaen and Sucre streets
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 Museo Murillo by andal13
Pedro Domingo Murillo fue un hombre que luchó por la independencia de Bolivia; la revolución de 1809 se originó en su casa, situada en la pintoresca calle Jaén. Fue capturado y ejecutado en 1810. En la actualidad su casa (la amarilla que aparece a la izquierda) es un museo. Leave a Comment Directions: Calle Jaén
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Tiahuanaco museum by chancay
Open times: Tu -Fri 9-12.30 and 15-19 , Sa 15-18 and Su 10-13 Leave a Comment
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 by nygaston
CONTACT: NAYRA TOUR, Sagarnaga 288, local 20; TEL 591-2 360 448
Email: Tupak_k@hotmail.com
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Museo del Oro Leave a Comment Directions: CONTACT: NAYRA TOUR, Sagarnaga 288, local 20; TEL 591-2 360 448 Email: Tupak_k@hotmail.com LA PAZ BOLIVIAOther Contact: You must finish with good beer a
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Bolivia has so many cultures and traditions that you can only discover the roots in the museums.
Most of them are located in Jaen street and near the main square 'Plaza Murillo'. Leave a Comment Directions: There are many important museums that you don't have to miss them: Museo Nacional de Arqueología: Has information and things of many cultures in Bolivia and especially from Tiwanaku.
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The Coca Museum contains an interesting and thorough explanation (as well as history) of the Coca Plant. Even the skeptics will get something out of this informitive and interesting museum. Leave a Comment
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This is a little museum that is devoted to the coca plant, which plays a huge part in the culture and history of the Andean people around here.
At the museum, you will be given a tattered notebook (choice of various languages) and following the numbered indicators on the notebook, you can walk through the similarly-numbered exhibits and photos logically and read about the history, cultural significance, medical values, political implications of the humble little coca plant.
Coca leaves have been in used by the people of this land (Peru, Bolivia) for 4,500 years, as traces of the leaves were found in mummies from 2,500 BC to 1,800 BC.
When Potosi was an important mining city, coca leaves were used by the Indian slaves to make them work longer hours in infernal conditions. The Spanish controlled them carefully and at one point, the value of coca leaves was equal to the price of 450kg of gold!
Later, the anaesthetic effects of coca leaves were discovered by the Western World (although well-known by pre-Inca civilisations centuries ago who used them to perform skull trepanations - drilling a hole through the skull to perform brain surgery), so it became the fashion drug. Cocaine, a derivative from coca leaves, was later fashionably used in French wine and the most famous brand in the world - Coca Cola as an energy-booster.
Later, United Nations claimed that coca leaves was the cause of poverty in Bolivia and Peru, thereby creating a law that prohibited it.
Naturally, cocaine soon became a societal problem with drug addicts all over the world as well. For example, according to the museum, United States has 5% population but consumes 50% of cocaine that exists in the world.
Apparently, now there are 36 countries who have rights to produce cocaine (presumably for medical purposes) but Peru and Bolivia were not amongst them. Leave a Comment Address: Linares 906
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