{"id":3314,"date":"2013-02-09T18:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2013-02-12T06:44:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T00:44:29","slug":"tour-guide-of-iglesias-rurales-la-paz-y-oruro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/tour-guide-of-iglesias-rurales-la-paz-y-oruro\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Guide of Iglesias Rurales: La Paz y Oruro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3366\" alt=\"003\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/003.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>Despite its focus on chapels and its brevity, German Ambassador Philipp Schauer\u2019s guide to rural churches (<em>Gu\u00eda tur\u00edstica de\/Tour guide of Iglesias Rurales: La Paz y Oruro<\/em>,\u00a0by Schauer, Philipp, Teresa Gisbert) is my favorite printed guide to the Altiplano.\u00a0 With lots of maps and photos, Spanish and English directions to, and descriptions of the churches, and information about other sites nearby, this guide has the most detailed information I have been able to find on selected parts of the altiplano.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the book is absolutely indispensible for anyone interested in the altiplano chapels, architecture, or colonial art.\u00a0 However, the directions, maps and descriptions of nearby sites also make it useful for explorers who are not so tightly focused on the churches.\u00a0 The book will get you to many sites which are too small or isolated to be covered in the large commercial guidebooks, but which are nonetheless small gems of culture or nature.<\/p>\n<p>Given the isolation of many of the churches, the book is necessarily oriented to the traveler with an auto.\u00a0 For the average tourist on the Macchu Picchu-Titicaca-Salar circuit, that may not be helpful, but for anyone who is interested in seriously exploring the altiplano, the only way to do that is in a private vehicle.\u00a0 If that is your intent, you need this book.<\/p>\n<p>The book is bilingual, which effectively reduces its length further from 96 pages, but makes it accessible to local tourists, as well as English speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available online from numerous sellers for $45.\u00a0 I have not seen it recently in bookstores in La Paz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3363\" alt=\"004\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/004.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>It is worth noting that Ambassador Schauer has recently published another tome, similar in format, on Santa Cruz Department (not including Santa Cruz City, itself). \u00a0If you are thinking of traveling in that region, and especially if you are planning a visit to the Chiquitania, you certainly will want to pick up <em>Atractivos turisticos en el departamento de \/ Tourist attractions in the department of Santa Cruz<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its focus on chapels and its brevity, German Ambassador Philipp Schauer\u2019s guide to rural churches (Gu\u00eda tur\u00edstica de\/Tour guide of Iglesias Rurales: La Paz y Oruro,\u00a0by Schauer, Philipp, Teresa Gisbert) is my favorite printed guide to the Altiplano.\u00a0 With lots of maps and photos, Spanish and English directions to, and descriptions of the churches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,92,110,102,61,100,107,91,59],"tags":[190,187,104,172,189,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}