Glorieta Hotel Sucre

... by nails. The door was a little tricky, it took us a while to get the knack of forcing it shut over the floor without taking out chips of the whitewash. There was a little table and a few chairs. There was a so called double bed for the two of us, which was in fact just larger than a twin. Also one of the more uncomfortable beds I have slept in, even if it was just one person and you did not need to lie on the hard side bit. It was my least favorite part ...

... 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 ...

... we arrived in the morning but probably a pointless exercise. We have learned to ask some more direct questions in future though: Is it direct, will we have seats together, will we have to lie on the floor and act as a foot rest for about a dozen people?

Found some digs across the street from the hotel and got some serious kip then headed out for a wander into town. It is quite a big place, the secondary capital of Bolivia and was quite a trek to the centre, all downhill ...

... amp; another farewell dinner tonight, this is a cool city, very much a Spanish influence but again such great people & sights. Tomorrow 5 of us head onto Santa Cruz where we´ll meet another new tour guide & I think 2 new people then we arrive into Brazil on Monday! hard to believe its October & by the end of the month I´ll be in London - what a contrast. But I´ll be making the most of the rest of my Sth America trip that´s for sure, still so much to ...

... in town which we decided to visit to see what its like. Slightly overpriced and inundated with other travelers we were suckered in by the huge menu - it had so much nice food! A big thing as we seem to have been eating many a pizza since arriving in Bolivia. We ended up basing ourselves there for awhile sipping proper coffees and having a nice Malaysian chicken satay (heaven I tell you!).

The next 2 days we just relaxed and wandered ...

... 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 ...

... with bus company offices. Our bus took ten hours, but as it turned out, we had to get off at Potosi, wait an hour and a bit, then change at Potosi. At Potosi, as we sat in the termina, we spotted some rather peculiar mongrels: a dog with ludicrously long ears, and a sorry-looking specimen that seemed to be an ill-advised cross between a great dane and a sausage dog. It cheered up, somewhat, after finding some unknown tasty treat in a binbag ...

... nog iets oprecht en kan je ook voelen dat men niet aan bandwerk gaat doen zoals in Peru. Hopelijk wordt dit de norm naarmate we naar Zuid-Bolivië en later ook Argentinië, Uruguay en Chili trekken.
Hasta pronto!
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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 pretty impressive place ...

... through some indigenous villages (Chaunaca, Maragua, and Quilla Quilla). I was going to do one of those expensive all inclusive hikes with a travel agency in town, but I ran into one of the Bolivians I met on the bus and he recommended going to the University Tourism Office and hiring an independent guide there. I would highly recommend this option to anyone, me and this Australian I had met ended up paying 250 Bolivianos between the 2 of us for ...

Shane says;



We were up bright and early for our bus trip to Sucre. While waiting at the bus company's shop we noticed a lot of 4WD mini buses picking up a lot of locals and then leaving again, while the gringo's seemed to be taking the nicer fancier buses. Surely ours would be one of those nicer ones, with toilets and comfy seats? Well, no. Milli and I purchased our ticket from what we assumed was the only company doing the 12 hour trek to Sucre, and only while ...