Sucre is the OTHER capital of Bolivia, but of course no one except the sucreños actually hold any kind of significance to this. They actually hold quite a lot of significance to it, and never suggest that Sucre, without government buildings, at a dead-end part of Bolivia, in a small colonial town, maybe doesn´t deserve the title of world capital if you plan on your taxi driver taking you to your destination without a severe lecture. But nonetheless it´s something cool to store away in your memory bank of random world trivia. We got to Sucre from Potosí, by colectivo (shared taxi). The system for colectivos is that they wait until they´re full and then leave. There are a lot of them, so anybody that looks remotely like thinking of going to Sucre is pounced upon.
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