NBC News

In Bolivia's Andes, Indigenous Quechua settle disputes with ritual dance, hand-to-hand combat

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...
The Straits Times

In Bolivia's Andes, neighbors settle disputes with Tinku ritual combat

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia - In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...
The Taipei Times

Bolivia's `Tinku' draws in tourists

The locals come down from the mountains drunk, dancing and ready to fight. The police come to make sure no one dies. And the tourists, reporters and documentary filmmakers come for the blood. The ...
Los Angeles Times

Ancient and Bloody Bolivian Ritual Draws a Crowd

MACHA, Bolivia -- A bus loaded with tourists pulls into this desolate pueblo on Bolivia’s high plains to watch 6,000 men get drunk and beat themselves to a pulp in a three-day festival known as Tinku.
Deccan Herald

I was comfortable dancing to Tinku Jiya :Dharmendra

"It was easy for me to do the item song. I was very comfortable doing it. Once the camera is on I open up. If I would have been uncomfortable then I wouldn't have been in the industry since last 50 ...