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Published: September 7th 2006
The Recoleta
Students drink drom this fountain believeing it will give them more knowledge.We caught a flight from La Paz to Sucre on 26th August with the idea that we would spend some time doing more spanish lessons in Sucre. Becky and Tim were still there and we met with them. Sucre is an absolutely beautiful place. Very european looking and quite middle class for Bolivia. It houses one of the foremost universities in South America we were told. The majority of people are well dressed, the buildings are sparkling white (because there is a law which requires the buildings to be painted annually), all in all its beautiful. That is until you are unfortunate enough to catch someone pissing in the street! We saw quite alot of this. Men stand openly pissing into the road looking at you as you walk past, old ladies pull a Paula Radcliffe regularly and small children were seen to crouch in drains doing a little more than urination!
Our week or so in Sucre was pretty non productive in the end. We had satellite tv in our room at our hostel and Mike basically hibernated for the week. I was a little better but our aim for spanish lessons was never realised. On our second day
I went on a tour about the city with a university student who didn´t speak English. It was pretty much a success as I could get the gist of most of what he said. We got to see the oldest tree in Bolivia (1,500 years old) and various other museums and the local park. As Sucre is the legal capital of Bolivia (as opposed to the governmental capital which is Bolivia) there are many many lawyers. As you can see from the sign there is even a Perry Mason type on call for emergencies!
Our week in Sucre was very quiet and featured far too many caipirinhas and this wonderful thing called a Super Chop which is basically a pint! So not alot to report. We left on the 2nd to head for Uyuni and commence our Salar de Uyuni tour.
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Calum
Calum Shaw
Why stay there?
What did Becky and Tim find to do all that time?