Blogs from Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia, South America - page 14

I didn´t love my time in Sucre - not its fault - so this might not be the most enthusiastic blog you´ve ever read. Sucre is the consitutional capital of Bolivia and is rather handsome. It feels fairly small and the roads are so narrow that the cars honk at every intersection. There´s a big square full of trees in the middle of town and the buildings are all white. Around the city are pyramid-shaped scrubby hills. The weather in Sucre while I was there was always very pleasant - warm and sunny. I was planning on staying in Sucre for 3-4 weeks and doing some voluntary work at Fox Academy while also learning Spanish. Unfortunately Fox was pretty disorganised and this is the main reason I didn´t stay. I had been trying to find out ... read more

Hola Mis Amigos! I believe I left off on arrival in Sucre after another Bolivian bus journey that would have changed my opinion of Bolivian buses if it weren´t four hours late because it kept stopping every now and again for an hour to let the chicken/hamburger/bread and egg sellers on board! Still, I was just very happy to be back in Sucre and have a couple of weeks of Spanish lessons and to catch up with Vicky from Trailfinders (not her legal title). So I headed to a hostel I had booked just for one night to settle back into Sucre, before doing some shopping around other hostels that afternoon. I found a really nice little place called ´Hostal Pachamama´ with a lovely older Bolivian couple running it. It had a nice garden area for ... read more

We´ve found somewhere with decent internet, so are still trying to get more photos up. So... We ended up staying in Salta for about two weeks in total. That was the fault of Enrique at Hostel Del Centro who fed us cocoa pops, and showed us that the best Empañadas in the world were in the restauaurant across the road. We got to know pretty much everyone at the hostel, and spent New Years Eve with them drinking Malbec out of plastic beakers at the picnic table, then heading to the clubs that open at 2am. We did a bit of that cultural stuff while we were there. Probably the most striking was visiting the pickled Inca they have at the MAM museum. It was a young boy that had been sacrificed to the Gods around ... read more

After managing to get some sleep in our delightful cama bus (cama means bed in Spanish), we arrived in Sucre - 12 hours south of La Paz on luxuriously paved roads. It is also at a delightfully lower elevation than La Paz, at only 2600m. Sucre is the historical capital of Bolivia, and upon seeing it, it is clear why, it has a lovely look - all the buildings are white with red, tile roofs. The main part of town has lots of wonderful colonial architecture. The city is lively and has all the amenities one might need, as well a rich history involving the liberation of Bolivia from the Spanish, and the formation of an independent republic. We arrived early in the morning and arranged a taxi from the bus station to our hostel - ... read more

Il était temps pour notre petit groupe de se séparer. En effet, Robert et Jennie partaient sur Tupiza et nous, nous voulions passer un peu de temps dans la capitale de la Bolivie, Sucre. Sucre est une ville agréable, pas grande du tout pour une capitale et il est facile de s y balader a pied. De plus, le climat est plus clément car la ville est moins élevée (2800m d altitude). A Sucre, nous nous sommes surtout reposé, et nous avons profité du soleil. Au départ, nous pensions faire une randonnée a cheval mais finalement les excursions proposées ne nous ont pas paru tres attrayantes, nous avons décidé d aller faire de l escalade! Nous sommes partis une demi journée avec un guide qui nous a fait escalader une paroi de 23 metres 5 fois. ... read more