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

212 CultureShock! Bolivia To most folk who travel around the world, San José would seem like a disappointing backwater village. ...

Enjoying Bolivia 213 Peter and Andrew crave frontiers where no human being has set foot before, I like to see people. There are ...

214 CultureShock! Bolivia The road makes a winding ascent of the Cordillera Pass. When you’ve reached the top, you can see the r ...

Enjoying Bolivia 215 broken. Marcus protests. “We must take one step up in order to go two steps down,” I say, distorting a phra ...

216 CultureShock! Bolivia There are no stalagmites or stalactites. Beyond the lake, you’ll need spelunking (caving) equipment. V ...

Enjoying Bolivia 217 of balconies, interior gardens, rooms with antique furniture, a dank atmosphere and bulging mattresses. Rig ...

218 CultureShock! Bolivia TOURS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T LIKE TOURS Once hard-to-reach sites are now made accessible through innovat ...

Enjoying Bolivia 219 Américas. But such statistics do not consider self-suffi cient communities with virtually no income, where ...

220 CultureShock! Bolivia Lake Titicaca may be both too high and too remote for the overdevelopment that comes with excesses of ...

Enjoying Bolivia 221 Each terrace is engineered with fi ve layers, including topsoil above and stones on the bottom level. The w ...

222 CultureShock! Bolivia At lake level is a cosy museum, fi nanced by Bolivia’s National Institute of Archaeology. Many of the ...

Enjoying Bolivia 223 bedrock polished smooth by centuries of winds. When the moon is absent, the village and waves are eclipsed ...

224 CultureShock! Bolivia to Copacabana. If you’re on your own, you can negotiate the price of a motorboat ride from Copacabana ...

Enjoying Bolivia 225 the preservation of distinct ways of life through bilingual education. Fremen publicises Amazonian medicina ...

226 CultureShock! Bolivia Americans and Europeans. The construction of the railroad through malaria swamps resulted in ‘one deat ...

Enjoying Bolivia 227 speak with more enthusiasm for the towns of Guayaramerín and Rurrenabaque. Guayaramerín’s great advantage i ...

228 CultureShock! Bolivia the banks of the town, climb a steep hill for a magnifi cent view of the Beni lowlands, and then bathe ...

Enjoying Bolivia 229 stew. It would have been suffi cient to partake of the Chimane gardens of papaya, yuca, guava and lime. If ...

‘The native Bolivian word La yapa is remarkably similar to the Cajun word Lagniape, with the same meaning: the extra amount that ...

Learning the Language 231 Spanish Language Your trip begins with a continuing education course in Spanish. Spanish is phonetic, ...