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On the bridges

Weddings in the triple bridges. In La Paz, Bolivia, marriage is still considered as the economical alliance between families in the old spanish way. La Paz and El Alto most of them indigenous families get the wedding business as a very serious thing. One of the principal step for just married is going through one, two or three of the recent built continuous three bridges going from west to east canyons of the accident city. It's a way to seal a kind of pact between families and symbolically pass from a celibate life to married one. Get some "champagne" (cheap cider) in the middle of one of the bridge and offer some to the ground, the "pachamama" mother earth is common too, for good luck. As cars, the weddings get their way in the bridge, continuously on pair saturdays of pair months, another full lucky believe.The bridge walking part is small and there is no place to park the mini vans, generally used by a familiar for public transportation, so, they have to park in the highway and the cars passing through have to be careful and be patient or honk the horn furiously, in vain. 

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