Cholitas Wrestling — Attraction in El Alto

As many people wrote already - it's worth to go, epsecially it's not expensive, but after a few "fights" we probably will be bored. You can take a taxi or use an agency (100 bolivianos for admission and transport). Probably taxi or public transport will be better as you can arrive earlier (recommended to get a better seat) and leave any time. Ticket costs 80 bolivianos and included popcorn, soft drink, souvenir and two use of toilet. However, I think there are different type of tickets but at the enreance they sold only those. A beer costs 20 bolivianos. In theory, there are shows on Thursday and Sundays but I met people who came on Thursday and doors were closed. On Sunday there was no enough seats and some people were standing. Men "fights" start around 4.35pm. An hour later cholitas wresling starts, which is...

Was an hr on the bus from Selena then 45 min before anything happened then it was a bunch of guys that started wrestling. Finally the cholitas came out and they were entertaining but spent too much time trying to engage the crowd against the opponent. The ref started fighting and at one point was strangling the woman with a belt. Ref isnt supposed to be involved or fake strangle a woman. Then 3 women were in the ring together, who agains who? Then the finally was 8 wrestlers men and women total chaos and stupid, they started using chairs out of the ring and hitting opponents over the head with plywood. Men were fighting women, not cool felt very abusive. Turns out I can’t enjoy men fake hurting women. The woman in the red dress had some awesome acrobatics, but over all was a...

when we went - May 22 - half of the audience was not Bolivian, half of it was. Actually all our Bolivian friends (20-30es) told us they went to see it as kids. If you go directly you’ll pay 50pp, and if through an agent with transportation and all, it will be 90.

Overall it was less touristy than expected, and the show is really that, a show, with good spirit and fun and liveliness. The women wrestlers are amazing, they are the real thing, true athletes - and I guess they also must face quite a few prejudices in their own society. As far as we could tell, they honor their own culture and their gender - both mental and physical. We...