218 CultureShock! Bolivia
TOURS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T
LIKE TOURS
Once hard-to-reach sites are now made accessible through
innovative travel companies that sponsor authentic tours that
are ethnically and environmentally hip. Blending modest but
appreciated comforts with a tolerable dose of roughing it,
these tours allow for the thrills of do-it-yourself escapades,
minus (some of) the hazards. (A selected list of contact
numbers of reputable tour companies is found in the Resource
Guide at the end of the book.)Island of the Sun: The Dawn of
South American Culture
Bolivia has long been maligned by statistics on per capita
income, which qualify it as the second poorest nation in the