Country Info
- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
- Currency
- 8,300,463
- Population
- BO
- Country Code
Sucre Slideshow
Sucre
Travel Blogs from Sucre, Bolivia
Sucre Of Sunshine
... would fit my feet. It took ages but I did eventually fins some....apparently a size 9 or 10 at home is huge in Bolivia! A plus to all the searching though was plenty of conversations in Spanish....helping mine improve a little bit. Had a couple of beers ...
'La Ciudad Blanca de Las Americas'
A world heritage site Sucre is known to be Bolivia's most sophisticated and beautiful city. Neon signs are banned here and buildings are ordered to be white washed every year to maintain its name 'the white city of the Americas.’ We grabbed some ...
Sucre
... Paz´s airport is at over 4000m so needs a 4km runway to allow planes to take off in the thin air). Sucre is the 'constitutional' capital of Bolivia, whatever that means, but there seem to be lots of lawyers offices and it's where the country's best ...
Sucre
... , but saved us hours on a bus as there is only a dirt road connecting the two cities, and buses in bolivia aren`t very fast! Sucre is a beautiful little city at about 2400m altitude ... we are heading into the mountains! Its nicknamed the white ...
Night bus to Sucre
heading to Sucre with a night bus - leaving La Paz at 7pm... more news upon arrival. ...
Bolivia - Days 7 , 8 and 9
... , but decided to leave for Sucre that same evening since my time was coming to an end and everyone told me that Sucre was the most beautiful city in Bolivia and had a great night life. So around 5:30pm, I took the bus from Potosi to Sucre. This time I ...
Moving on
... seat was occupied by an older and highly excitable Argentinian man called Carlo, who was on his way to meet his girlfriend in Sucre for a "honeymoon". I explained to the driver that I was crash-freaked from Saturday and he did his best to drive slowly, ...
Sucre
... the motor racing which was quite cool. Slightly outdated rally cars flying through the streets or into cement bags in some case!!! Bolivia seems to have a never ending thirst for things going on. If its not racing its street bands, blockades, or just ...
Walking with Dinosaures
... we will be returning here later. We eventually did make it to the bus station where we took a bus to Sucre, the very pretty, capitol of Bolivia. We were both very pleased to discover that Bolivia does in fact have some concreted roads! We decided ...
jenga!!
lovely lie in again today. its a bind getting up at 7 every day. I should be resting im on holiday. Today i just did my homework in the morning and classes in the afternoon. Classes were excellent again today. Im picking more spanish up now. Ive also had ...
journee pique pique???
arrivee 7h30 du matin apres 13h de bus... pour moi jai bien dormi mais sylvain moyen,, plus la journee passe plus sa fievre monte... allez on a un peu de tps alors on va visiter... l hopitla!!! et oui, tout est propre , blanc et calme, les urgences st ...
Sucre
... , it was a single lane, so the bus was beep-beeping the whole way to avoid collisions. Sucre is great, apparently the prettiest city in all of Bolivia. It has lots of beautiful buildings and impressive plazas, meticulously kept. This is a student town ...
White City
After our first couple of weeks in Bolivia we were eager to settle down again and learn some Spanish. We had heard that Sucre was a quaint little city with a laid back vibe and temperate weather. We also heard that you could sign up for Spanish lessons at ...
Walking with dinosaurs
... nice to get closer than 100m though. Apparently, there is a hike to see, and stand in, footprints in stone somewhere nearby, but the access road was washed out when we were there. Even without that, Sucre must be the place in Bolivia to bring little ...
Eine Hauptstadt noch verschlafener als Bern
... Oh nein, nicht La Paz, sondern Sucre. Die ganze Regierung und das Parlament sitzt zwar in La Paz doch die Hauptstadt ist Sucre, was wohl die wenigsten ausserhalb von Bolivien wissen. Sucre war für die Spanier einmal eine sehr wichtige Stadt, da sie sehr ...
Fun in Valpo
Well, well, well, where do I start? It has been a jam-packed past week and now I must attempt to cram it all into a blog entry, the lack of high-speed internet (unsuprisingly) in the barren Chilean/Bolivian desert has meant that frustration has prevented ...
Back to School
... and during siesta), it is beautiful. I will be sad to leave but I cannot stop in one place forever - there is still much of Bolivia to see! Tomorrow, Guilleume, Nina and I are getting a night bus to the biggest city in Bolivia - La Paz. Turns out they ...
Bolivia, Sucre
Wed 24.9.08: Bolivia, Sucre: ("The City of Four Names") PERSONAL: Wednesday: We left Potosi for Sucre in a taxi (taking 3hrs). My taxi driver owns a green racing car and at times his taxi was travelling at a speed of 120! Sometimes he overtook cars ...
Cochabamba and Sucre
... more touristy here, wondering around some of the sites including a miniature Eiffel tower built by Eiffel himself and the site Bolivia declared independence (first from the Spanish, later from Peru). We also spent a day going first to the Dinosaur ...
Sucre
... , dix fois plus jolie et vivable que la Paz.... Difficile a comprendre donc pourquoi la Paz a usurpe le statut de capitale a Sucre, qui ne reste que la capitale judiciaire. Apres avoir harpente toutes les rues de la ville en quelques heures, nous prenons ...
Hola from the other side of the lake
Hey all, Hope you had a lovely weekend. Just had quite an exciting morning crossing the Peru/Bolivia border. I took a bus but you have to get off and walk across the border and then the bus meets you on the other side. So I am now here in Boliva, ...
chicken and chips soup
... my memory stick of precious photos to Mick and Vick in Buenos Aires, too scared ill lose it if I keep it with me any longer. Bolivia post I’m trusting you! I don´t make the hotel by two, so I miss natelle and Ralph at our meeting time, but shrug it ...
Sucre
... children miners in the Potosi mine, our next stop on the trip. Cafe Amsterdam also supports the working children of Sucre through the Centro Educativo Ñanta Sucre. On our last day in Sucre we visited this amazing center that feeds, educates, ...
Sucre and Potosi, Bolivia
... miners were protesting over pay and bad work conditions, which I can understand when you hear the pay rates and working conditions. Bolivia is regarded as the 'protest capital of South America’ and locals use any opportunity to protest. Meg and I ...
Paragliding in Sucre, Bolivia.
I just wanted to send a quick update about my paragliding experience and pass on some rather funny photos of the event. After having nightmares about plummeting from highrise buildings the night before and spending most of the morning having to run to ...
starry starry night
... cemetery i wandered up into town, where in the central plaza there was a competition of all of the childrens homes in sucre. they had a recycling competition where they made things from plastic bottles and bit of old wood and junk. some kids were playing ...
Sucre, Manu Chau and La Glorieta
... into the kitchen and make myself a cup of good English tea and just sit in the garden and soak up the sun. Sucre is said to be Bolivia's most beautiful city and with it's centre filled with only white buildings (some law has been passed stipulating this) ...
