Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

160 CultureShock! Bolivia The Big Agora The north-west quadrant bustles with outdoor speciality markets. Behind the San Francisc ...

Enjoying Bolivia 161 Pickpocketing Bolivian Style A pickpocket once ripped a gold necklace from my wife’s neck. (She had forgott ...

162 CultureShock! Bolivia Across the traffi c circle from the cemetery may be the most exciting attraction of the north-west qua ...

Enjoying Bolivia 163 an entrepreneur charged with violating banking rules in a controversial case. He had been locked in for fi ...

164 CultureShock! Bolivia and includes boutique size speciality museums. The mixture of commerce, tourism and residents adds fl ...

Enjoying Bolivia 165 Once a year, the Plaza is the scene of a celebration of the Day of the Sea. Plaza Abaroa is also the practi ...

166 CultureShock! Bolivia Miraflores neighbourhood, is an old middle class haunt with bustling streets and rows of inexpensive r ...

Enjoying Bolivia 167 of exotic trees and fl owers, and its views of various La Paz proletarian neighbourhoods. La Paz’s human an ...

168 CultureShock! Bolivia Across the avenue from the Basílica is La Casa de La Cultura, a sometimes forgotten corner where ongoi ...

Enjoying Bolivia 169 high quality professors and signifi cant research projects. The university also runs a quality television s ...

170 CultureShock! Bolivia the terrorists were seized after a riot that I witnessed,” says Daniela, “the rest of the prison popul ...

Enjoying Bolivia 171 So many people are crammed into this hole, like a thousand clowns in an old automobile, while the Altiplano ...

172 CultureShock! Bolivia Nearby, raised agricultural fields surrounded by canals illustrate an ingenious farming methodology th ...

Enjoying Bolivia 173 The Calle Jaen Neighbourhood in La Paz offers one of the best aspects of the city’s architectural heritage. ...

174 CultureShock! Bolivia or the beginning of a thriving system of free market commerce?  Basílica San Francisco and surroundin ...

Enjoying Bolivia 175 trail to Coroico—or two rugged peaks to the left, at above 5,000 m (16,404 ft), both of which offer 360 deg ...

176 CultureShock! Bolivia This photo of ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Highway’ was taken by Mark McMahon (http://fi lmtrips.com), ...

Enjoying Bolivia 177 Important Note This hike takes about fi ve hours, including a riverside picnic. To make it a day trip, you’ ...

178 CultureShock! Bolivia plaza. (Alternatively, the road outside of Palca winds up to the town of Ventilla, near the beginning ...

Enjoying Bolivia 179 Potosí At 4,070 m (13,350 ft) above sea level it looks like a valley and acts like a valley but wins the pr ...