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

180 CultureShock! Bolivia Façade of San Lorenzo Church, Potosi—Spanish Baroque and indigenous Andean art converge. ...

Enjoying Bolivia 181 Not So Cold “The cold in Potosí is overrated,” says Jaime, a former zinc miner and now attorney. “ Potosí i ...

182 CultureShock! Bolivia Museum Musts A cast of venerable museums and convents provides an escort for the Casa Real de la Moned ...

Enjoying Bolivia 183 The human cost of massive layoffs in the mining industry, Potosí’s primary liability, is embedded in the st ...

184 CultureShock! Bolivia the extra punishment of an occasional light snow on a frigid winter’s night and sometimes even in summ ...

Enjoying Bolivia 185 from agricultural roots has stimulated a proliferation of honkytonk bars catering to alcoholics. Roberta, a ...

186 CultureShock! Bolivia Alteños Suffer Too The late El Compadre Carlos Palenque would listen to the misfortunes of the sufferi ...

Enjoying Bolivia 187 and partly merged, one mainly of rural migrants from the Altiplano (north), who practiced artisan and comme ...

188 CultureShock! Bolivia Oruro If La Paz, Potosí and El Alto have not met with your approval, this cool Altiplano city of 160,0 ...

Enjoying Bolivia 189 Various foreign visitors to Bolivia interviewed for this book have testifi ed with delight that, from the i ...

190 CultureShock! Bolivia Uyuni, went through most of his childhood without knowing what it was like to touch a tree. His boundl ...

Enjoying Bolivia 191 legislative session and maintaining the seat of the Supreme Court. Sucre’s political infl uence dates back ...

192 CultureShock! Bolivia three university museums covering colonial to modern art and anthropology. Colonial Sucre’s old conven ...

Enjoying Bolivia 193 Cochabamba The bus from La Paz stops at the fi nal summit before its spiralling descent into Cochabamba. Th ...

194 CultureShock! Bolivia million inhabitants is just a good place to be. One of the best ways to ‘be’ in Cochabamba is on a bic ...

Enjoying Bolivia 195 the in-bus monitor. Bus fares are quite economical. By air, it’s only a 35-minute trip. Cochabamba serves a ...

196 CultureShock! Bolivia features an overview of the region’s ancient animal heritage, a prelude to treks in the Tarija ravines ...

Enjoying Bolivia 197 season, chilly surazo winds may slash away the Santa Cruz heat. The region is not exempt from an occasional ...

198 CultureShock! Bolivia Some have fallen to their deaths. Others are run over by automobiles. The Plight of Sloths Plaza 24 de ...

Enjoying Bolivia 199 seek out these places and visitor facilities are improving. Back in the city, several peña-pubs (folk music ...