With a Lonely Planet travel guide under his arm and a rucksack on his
back, the individualist traveller insists on distinguishing himself
from the masses on their package-deal holidays. "Can't do it in Europe"
reports on this sub-branch of tourist species, which can now be found
in increasing numbers in the most remote corners of the world.
Destination: Potos�, Bolivia, where real miners in original
19th-century working gear toil in the silver mines - under 19th-century
conditions happens to be the main tourist attraction.
The region is one of the poorest in Latin America and is know hoping
that tourism will be a way out of it. But what are the intentions of
the tourists? Is it about getting to know a foreign culture or about
escaping boredom at home by seeking distraction in the third world?
What are the consequences of this kind of tourism, and how do the
miners feel about being watched? This documentary raises new questions
about the growing tourism industry and describes the principles of a
mobile and globalised class-based society: We travel - you work."