A cholita hairdresser livens the long hours of waiting for her clients at a hair salon in El Alto, Bolivia with up with traditional indigenous dances.

Singing and dancing cholita hairdresser livens up salon experience

Feminist activists dressed the monument of Isabel la Catolica in Bolivia's capital La Paz as a "cholita," indigenous women, traditionally from rural Aymara and Quechua communities.

Feminists dress statue of Isabel la Catolica as 'cholita;' Columbus statue is vandalised

Bolivian Monica Callisaya designs special biosecurity suits for the "cholita" women in Bolivia - who usually wear long traditional skirts and bowler hats - so they are able to keep their identity, be protected and feel comfortable at the same time.

Bolivia's Cholitas don bio-security gear as they go out to sell

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