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

140 CultureShock! Bolivia four generations present. Milk is available for the children. The table setting may be relatively elab ...

The Food of Bolivia 141 affected by this potent exacta shouldn’t be far away from a napping place. At dinner, drinking customs a ...

142 CultureShock! Bolivia the counter or tables and stimulating male guests to imbibe and to invite. For some of these women, dr ...

‘You can take a walk from one climate to another, from the cold highlands to the hot lowlands, stripping layers along the way.’ ...

144 CultureShock! Bolivia THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TOURISM AND TRAVEL is the difference between seeing and being. If there is no r ...

Enjoying Bolivia 145 these periods, the Spanish colony has had the most lasting effect on social customs. Most festivals are a h ...

146 CultureShock! Bolivia A Festival Calendar Virtually every town and even neighbourhood has its own annual festival. This sect ...

Enjoying Bolivia 147 drinks fl ow freely, with beer and the fermented maize drink, chicha or garapiña, the favourite brews in Or ...

148 CultureShock! Bolivia Foam and water fi ghts during Carnaval—sooner or later everyone joins in. same age and size. With his ...

Enjoying Bolivia 149 of my head; suddenly I belonged. Watch the folks when a water balloon hits them in a sensitive place by sur ...

150 CultureShock! Bolivia  Last Sunday in March—Domingo de Ramos. Varying celebrations throughout Bolivia: a cattle fair in El ...

Enjoying Bolivia 151 Give a T’inku crowd the opportunity to observe British hooligans at a football match, or East Los Angeles s ...

152 CultureShock! Bolivia dance, while Sucre and Oruro host processions, fairs and masses. Los Yungas is the place to be. Also k ...

Enjoying Bolivia 153  18 November—Beni’s Departmental Anniversary. Bolivia’s most carnivorous region celebrates with a cattle f ...

154 CultureShock! Bolivia  Trekking or climbing: the Inca trails are literally built into the Bolivian culture and hundreds of ...

Enjoying Bolivia 155 like James Petras, in Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America, argue that NGOs were supported by neoliberal p ...

156 CultureShock! Bolivia Working With NGOs With a maturing awareness of the root causes of social problems, numerous NGOs have ...

Enjoying Bolivia 157 San Francisco, California. One looks up into San Francisco and down into La Paz. Tearing through the gut of ...

158 CultureShock! Bolivia Most travellers arriving in La Paz, by plane, bus or automobile, will be entering by way of El Alto, p ...

Enjoying Bolivia 159 the more feeble the infrastructure. Killer landslides in the rainy season are not unknown to these precario ...