The Exploitation and Contradiction of South America: Tourism - When Societies Go Bad

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Travel story: The Exploitation and Contradiction of South America: Tourism - When Societies Go Bad

Listen: All childish bathroom humor aside, Lake Titicaca is a geologic wonder. Powerful forces from deep within the earth combined, over millions of years, to form what we now call the Altiplano or high plain in South America. It's a relatively flat expanse in the middle of the widest part of the Andes covering some of Southern Peru, and much of Western Bolivia. The altitude seems to average around 4000 meters (14,000 feet for you metrically non-inclined readers). In the center of the... More