Amboro national park, near Samaipata on a one day hike.

Near the town of Samaipata, where I went in hiding for a few days to escape carnaval in either Santa Cruz or Sucre, is a small town about 3 hours from Santa Cruz and is famous for ecotourism and probably the enormous amount of foreigners who live there.

El Fuerte is an old Inca ruin near the town which was a fort, town and tradepoint in the old empire.

The formal capital of Bolivia! And a pretty beautiful city.

Liberal democracy has never dared face the fact that industrial capitalism is an intensely coercive form of organisation of society that cumulatively constrains men and all of their institutions to work the will of the minority who hold and wield economic power; and that this relentless warping of men’s lives and forms of association becomes less and less the result of voluntary decisions by ‘bad’ men or ‘good’ men and more and more an impersonal web of coercions dictated by the need to keep the system running

(Robert Lynd)

Typical Bolivian music. Our guide and driver gave us the run-down of this and many more on the 8 hour drive back. Imagina this music, the landscapes, the bouncing car and a guy blabbering off in Castillano for the whole feeling.