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 choice (eg. pineapple, papaya, mango) toast and jam, fresh fruit and yogurt and eggs, bacon and salad all for E2.50. Sucre also had the craziest market I´ve ever seen. Everything from toiletries to fruit stacked as high as the eye could see. Next ...
Super Sucre
... been the longest that we´ve stayed in one city on this trip. It may be something to do that Sucre is the chocolate captial of Bolivia...... Food has been fantastic (i.e. non South American), we´ve had several fondues purely because this is about the ...
Stunning Sucre
... we leave Sucre. We had a lovely day strolling around shopping. After lunch outside a restaurant we were again reminded of how poor Bolivia is when a passer by asked if he could finish our lunch. He picked up a leftover piece of bone with ...
Silver and White Bolivia
... Salar tour. Like I’ve said, the backpacker world is small! We had some chocolate cake (Sucre is the chocolate capital of Bolivia), said goodbye to our new friends, fought with the nasty owner of our Hostel (Veracruz) for overstaying our ...
Salt to Sugar!!
Hola Amgios (again), We are now in Sucre which was the former capital of Bolivia, & some say still is. What a contrast to the desert & salt plains that we have just been thru to get here, from 4x4 to tar roads......with plenty of rock slides on them!! ...
Dinosaurs and Dynamite
... marching past in helmets. I asked what was going on and he explaine dthat the miners were protesting, and Sucre being the constitutional capital of Bolivia, they had come here to march. I snuck out of the cafe once the peaceful-looking protesters had ...
Mystery of the week nº 16:
What on earth do Bolivian women wear under their skirts to make their bums look so ...
Militaertransport
... immerhin vierzig passagiere fasst, und zwei stewardessen in militaeruniform und wohl einen oder zwei piloten, gehts dann auf richtung sucre. wir bekommen sogar essen und kaffee an board, der genuss dieser sachen faellt allerdings schwer, da entweder der ...
Bolivanische Perle
... angekommen zu sein. Nur etwa 2,5 Stunden von Potosi mit einem shared taxi ueber eine geteerte Strasse entfernt, liegt Sucre. Die Stadt ist Sitz des boliviansichen Obersten Gerichtshofes und ansonsten voll mit alten kolonialer Bauten. Es ist ausnahmsweise ...
Spanglish 3
... them lunch in the end and a drink each so they were happy even though we didn’t give them much business wearing our sandals! Sucre is situated in a bowl like shape between the mountains, so it is all hills, but the centre is at the bottom. The views ...
Sucre Historical Capital of Bolivia
... full of travelers careened around the mountain roads dodging sheep, dogs and people to arrive here in the economic capitol of Bolivia, safely and stirred as well as shaken. Beautiful valleys full of green and trees, so different from the landscapes we ...
Massage, my friend?
... Uruguay en Chili trekken. Hasta pronto! ------- Early in the morning and after another sleepless and endless busride, we arrived in Sucre, Bolivia's only offical capital. A much smaller and much calmer city than La Paz, its big brother up North. A ...
Sucre
Sucre, another colonial city due to the mining potential. With its white buildings it feels even more influenced by colonies than Potosi. We enjoyed a lot the Mercado Central which was opposite our hostel and sold quantities of food for nothing. Breakfast ...
Uyuni, désert de sel, etc.
... de ses séjours à Sucre. En tous cas, il n´avait pas des goûts très prolétariens. Le lendemain de notre arrivée à Sucre, nous nous sommes précipités au bureau d´Aero Sur pour acheter des billets d´avion vers La Paz : trois quarts d´heures ...
Dinosaurs Don`t Deserve Donations!
... to the view point over the city. A steep walk was rewarded with stunning views and a performance from a boy army... VIVA SUCRE; VIVA BOLIVIA! After wandering around the square, we took a dodgy bus to see the `famous` dinosaur footprints. We were a ...
The White City (aka old capital of Bolivia)
... week but we were not so lucky as it was grey skies, threatening thunder and lightening. So we saved most of the exploring of Sucre until Wednesday when the sun was shining again :) That night we headed out for a few drinks and a nice meal, determined to ...
Horses And Waterfalls
... apparently agreed to go horse riding, so Bjarnhilde a new found Norwegian friend and I set off for a canter through the city of Sucre into the dry wilderness. My faithful stead Hatsu pulled at the reins desperate to be let go and when I did eventually ...
Sucre
... though. Unfortuantely we were in Sucre over Easter weekend. We watched some of the processions in other parts of Bolivia, and they definitely like the reinactment of Christ´s crucifiction with extra blood and flaggalation. In Sucre, it ...
All I can think of talking about is the weather
... city is really pretty with a lot of parks and things like that. Basically, if there was one place in Bolivia I would live it would be here in Sucre. Katie and I have spent pretty much all our time here sitting in parks, which isn´t such a ...
A well deserved rest
OK, firstly may i apologise for it being so long since anything new has appeared on my blog. One word should explain everything - Bolivia! So after the 4 day Salt Flat tour, we stayed one night in Uyuni (nothing much to note, apart from a few days ...
enough enough
ok my body has shouted at me for abusing it so badly. im concerned it might report me to the NAPOB (national association of the preservation of bodies). jo i think you might be out of luck at getting a kidney from me mate, its game over. my liver ...
Reaching a high point
... that I forgot the mountains know how to teach so well. I just got back from a 6 day trek here in the Cordillera Real in Bolivia - one of the highest mountain ranges in the world. For those that have ever been in high altitude, you will understand the ...
Sucre, the heart of Bolivia
We made a brief stop in Sucre as we´d heard some great things about Bolivia´s constitutional capital. I can tell you that we mainly loved this place becuase it was seriously tranquil, and the hostel we stayed in was one of the nicest in South America so ...
Sucre
Before heading to Potosi we decided to take a small detour to Sucre which has a claim to be the capital of Bolivia because the Supreme Court is located there (a war was fought in the 19th century over whether La Paz or Sucre would be the capital and that ...
hangin around with the shoe shine boys
... than in other areas as well. one other note..... have noticed a real tension associated with being a tourist in bolivia.... because the locals know that they can generally charge tourist way more money than other bolivians they start favoring your ...
Verkehrsprobleme
... lassen uns davon aber nicht abschrecken, versuchen es trotzdem. geht aber nicht, ueberall sind strassensperren, der spass in sucre hat sich noch ausgeweitet. wir gehen erstmal kaffeetrinken und treffen andere urlauber, darunter ein paar aus holland, die ...
Sucre...The White City
And so we enter the Capital of Bolivia...Sucre. We are here for two days to relax, unwind and try to look and feel like girls again with Han getting a massage and Loz her hair done (although poor Loz was now hit with the lovely food provisioning, so it ...
Domingo - Sunday! learning more spanish
... theyd speak English, and they did (how ignorant of me). We went to meet the two girls at their hostal (Backpackers hostal sucre) just round the corner from where we live, and here i met some fellow female travellers who were sharing their experiences ...