Capital Plaza Hotel Sucre

... is beautiful. The whole core of the city is whitewashed and it is full of colonial buildings and churches - stunning. We have managed to get oursleves on to a Spanish course for 5 days and we´re already seeing the difference. Off to a market on Sunday - meant to be the best in Bolivia in a village called Tarabuco. We´ve met up with David and Fiona for dinner again post the Salar - they are a lovely couple and are very inspiring - they have retired early ...

... in Bolivia, given that you can eat a 2 course lunch anywhere in the city for 12 Bs, but it means we get to eat a varied diet and plenty of fruit and vegetables, sadly missing in the Bolivian diet. We've also discovered some great places to buy organic yogurt and food and I'm going to check out a German centre not far from here that does yoga and salsa classes.<br><br>The dolce Vita is a very popular guest house and when you're ...

... es zu hageln begonnen hat (sehr ungluecklich, da es in Tupiza seit fast einem Jahr nicht mehr geregnet hat). Nachdem wir uns im Hostel aufgewaermt haben und es aufgehoert hatte zu regnen, fuhren wir mit dem Jeep auf 4500 meter Hoehe und von dort aus Downhill mit dem Fahrrad. Die Fahrt war lustig jedoch sehr anstrengend, da die Strasse wie jede andere in Bolivien nicht im besten Zustand war. Dazu kam dass unsere Fahrraeder nicht gefedert waren und die Bremsen nur teilweise ...

... a dress up party with some other Gap people.......<br>Gap sponsors an orphanage in Sucre so we visited there the next day....had expected the children to be little but the were actually teenage girls. After initial awkwardness we organised some tunnel ball games and things became more relaxed. Unfortunately those couple of years of PE teaching expereience were wasted cos tunnel ball was the only game i could think of!!!!!<br>

... for drinks! With all of that, I think we spent about 30 dollars! Look at us go. <br>So now I´ll back up to why this is such a luxury.<br><br>Wednesday morning, we met Felipe and started out. First, we stopped in the market to buy ourselves food for the trip. How much food was confusing, because we might be buying food for the teachers as well, who would take the food and cook us meals as well, or just ourselves, but anyways we bought lots to be on the ...

... we nog een museum gezien van het strenge kloosterleven dat Spanje heeft geintroduceerd in dit land. De gids had het naar haar zin, maar na 3 uur hebben wij gevraagd om een versnelde tocht naar de uitgang met als smoes dat onze bus bijna wegging. Het Spaans was voor mij te moeilijk, en ook al kregen we een Engelse vertaling van ons Spaanssprekende Amerikaanse reisgenoot, heb ik mij vooral geconcentreerd op het maken van foto's. Zoals ...

... One thing we did notice is the large amount of beggars on the street, plus shoe shine kids all over the place, somewhat reminiscent of India, though of course not as bad. Had ourselves an Anuerza which is a cheap set meal in a German cafe. The food was nice but the waitress seemed a bit arsey that we came in about 30 minutes from the end of service. We gave her tip to a bloke outside with 1 arm. Checked out a few potential tours &amp; hikes then decided we would stay for 1 more night and ...

... went there every single day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We just loved the market and Mihai was even obsessed with it that in between the meals, we went there to buy some snacks! Of course, the people working there recognized us and always welcomed us. We felt very home. <br><br>Again, Bolivia is very beautiful - yet, unfortunately not in every aspect! Isn't there always a 'BUT'?! The roads of Bolivia, if you can really ...

... it was also because I´m amazing, undoubtedly). My panini and coke soon arrived, and she pulled up a seat opposite my table (there were no the customers) and we chatted for about an hour. She was 19 and it turned out she was a law student, interestingly, so she was telling me about what she´d been studying, and I told her about what I´d done on my course and about my new job next year. We spoke in Spanish the whole time, though I kept having to whip my dictionary out from time to time ...

... it was on, and that does not help much when you don't even know where you are. So for a dollar, a taxi driver agreed to take us there. Yes, he drove us across the street. We were completely annoyed but it's Bolivia. So we got a room and slept until 7:30am when our complimentary breakfast was served. We spent the rest of the day wandering around the giant market ...