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Best Places to Eat ¨ Taj Mahal (p250)
¨ Pasionaria (p250)
¨ Jardín de Asia (p250)
¨ Latina Café (p263)
¨ Luna Verde (p262)
Best Places to Stay
¨ El Pueblito (p262)
¨CasaPatio Hotel Boutique (p249)
¨ La Paraba Frente Roja Lodge (p266)
¨Hotel Chiquitos (p269)
¨ Los Aventureros (p248)
When to Go
Jan Give in to de-sire at the Buena Vista Chocolate Festival on the last Sunday in January.
May–Aug The best time to visit lowland Chiqui-tania to avoid the worst of the heat.
Oct Join the faith-ful at Vallegran-de’s Che Festival, in memory of the legendary revolu-tionary.
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Santa Cruz°C/°F Temp Rainfall inches/mm
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40/104
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Santa Cruz & Gran Chiquitania
Why Go?The Bolivian Oriente is not what you generally see in Bolivi-an tourist brochures. This tropical region, the country’s most prosperous, has a palpable desire to differentiate itself from Bolivia’s traditional highland image. The region’s agriculture boom in recent years brought about a rise in income and a standard of living unequaled by any other Bolivian province. This is the part of Bolivia that defies the stereotype.
Santa Cruz is Bolivia’s most populous city with a cosmo-politan population, yet it still retains a small-town atmos-phere. From here visit the charming Jesuit mission towns with the country’s loveliest examples of Jesuit architecture, the pre-Inca ruins that hide near the village of Samaipata, or embark on a revolutionary pilgrimage to where Che Guevara met his maker around Vallegrande. Prefer na-ture? There are miles of trekking and tons of wildlife at the little-disturbed Parque Nacional Amboró.
Includes ¨Santa Cruz. . . . . . . . . 244Buena Vista . . . . . . . . 254Parque Nacional & Área de Uso Múltiple Amboró . . . . . . . . . . . 256Samaipata . . . . . . . . . 259Vallegrande . . . . . . . . 265La Higuera . . . . . . . . . .267Gran Chiquitania . . . .267Jesuit Missions Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
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