391 Lake Titicaca; Latino America; South Carolina Low Country
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Explore the highlights of the South Carolina Low Country, home to antebellum architecture, wildlife preserves, and plenty of rice and seafood. Then discover how you can stay high in the Andes with an indigenous family, right on the lake where Incas believe life began. And learn how Latinos in the United States are gaining influence — and what politicians need to understand to earn their vote.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're visit the largest lake in South America, take time to enjoy more than just the gorgeous scenery. |
| 0:06.0 | So when you go to the lake, you're not just visiting any body of water, you're visiting the place that, according to myth, gave the Andes its life. |
| 0:14.7 | Coming up, a guide to Lake Titicaka, where you may feel you've stepped back centuries |
| 0:19.6 | in time. |
| 0:21.0 | Latino cultures are becoming a major part of North American society and not just |
| 0:25.3 | in border states and big cities. Places you may not imagine like Georgia has almost |
| 0:30.0 | a million Latinos today. North Carolina is about to have a million Latinos. |
| 0:33.8 | The founder of Latino decisions explains the priorities and trends among Hispanics in the |
| 0:38.3 | USA. |
| 0:39.3 | We'll also explore South Carolina's low country where the coastal Gula communities |
| 0:44.0 | still link us to the region's plantation history. |
| 0:47.0 | Today even true Golas still speak a sort of a Creole type language that's a mixture |
| 0:51.7 | between African tribal languages and English and so forth. |
| 0:55.0 | It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steve's. |
| 1:00.0 | When you're invited to a barbecue in the low country of South Carolina, chances are you'll be having |
| 1:04.8 | oysters. |
| 1:05.8 | Coming up, a northern immigrant to Hilton Head Island shares the region's highlights that he's been |
| 1:10.7 | enjoying and gives us some tips for exploring the coastal flatlands |
| 1:14.7 | between Charleston and Savannah. Also in the hourhead, the co-founder of a public opinion |
| 1:20.1 | firm that focuses on Latinos in the United States explains how they've become the largest |
| 1:25.1 | ethnic group in California and are poised to do the same in just a few years in Texas. |
| 1:31.0 | We'll get a better understanding of trends among the growing Hispanic portion of the USA. |
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