Jan 9, 2013 - Week 15 - Uyuni, Potosi, Sucre (Bolivia)

The first 3 days of the week were spent on a 3 day trip into Bolivia (thanks for the Christmas present mum!). We left the hostel in San Pedro at 6am for a 5 hour drive in a minibus to the Bolivian border, a different border crossing to that the tours usually use since the usual one had been blockaded. After having our passports stamped by a drunken Bolivian guy we were allocated to a jeep with a French couple and a Swiss couple. Our driver wasn’t overly impressed as he considered 6 bags for 6 people to be excessive luggage and moaned about...

Aug 31, 2012 - Sucre

god i love flying. the plane did leave a bit to be desired and the landing rose the blood pressure a tad as we nearly ran out of runway..but we did have at least a 3 metres to spare, honk said at least we got our moneys worth! the landscape here is barrien to say the least. it is high here, the air is dry and i wouldnt want to be running a marathon..you know, like i tend to do at home. we went for a wonder to the square, which is the center of city social life in bolivia, the square is where its at man. we met up with our german friends...

Apr 28, 2012 - Relax e festeggiamenti nella Città Bianca

Mi é difficile lasciare Sucre. È stato un luogo speciale per me. Sono diversi i motivi che hanno contribuito a rendere questi tre giorni così belli e come sempre, quando in un posto si sta così bene, andandomene vi lascio un pezzo di cuore. Per una volta me la sono presa con calma: un po' perché vi avrei festeggiato il compleanno, un po' perché me ne avevano parlato così bene, fatto sta che ho deciso di starci 3 giorni, nonostante per vedere tutto ne basti poco più di uno. Sucre ha confermato l'idea della Bolivia che già mi ero fatta a...

Dec 10, 2011 - A Break in Sucre

A few days of rest in pretty Sucre was just what the doctor ordered. Our beautiful hostel La Dolce Vita made life pretty sweet indeed. the hostel has a kitchen so we spent a lot of time visiting the amazing food market next door and cooking our food. We walked around, caught up with old friends from Machu Picchu with an early Christmas meal, and went to see my first football game (Tim's 10000th, probably). During the game, there were fireworks and the referee got thrown rubbish at by the end (by the winning team!!), they had to bring riot...

Jul 10, 2011 - Sucre

Really pretty city, some romantic built pieces for his wife to remind her of Europe, because she´d fallen in love with Europe as she was visiting, everyone say ahhhhh! Had yummy chocolate, which they make in town, and went climbing for the day. Hard but I didn´t fall off, yay me! Also walking to see some dinosaur footprints followed by green beer, strange but good for the throat apparently!

May 29, 2011 - Bolivia and Northern Chile

I am typing with an on sceen keyboard. so this will be short. In Bolivia, we were at 12,000 ft. for the entire time there. Paco did ok,we managed. We visited, Copacabana-almost getting Paco BLESSED,La Paz, Potosi-highest city in world at 13,000+, Sucre-the most beautiful city in Bolivia, finally a native market of Tombuca-good food and textiles. Then wwe crossed the Andes after a couple of days waiting for the snow to melt on the 15,000 ft pass into Chile. At that point we were done with freezing nights, so we headed to arica on the coast....

May 21, 2011 - Volunteering in an orphanage

Yesterday was my last full day in Sucre. I spent the morning shopping and bought the most amazing alpaca jumper ever! I even bought a matching headband. Everyone in our group now owns alpaca or llama attire. We all look thoroughly ridiculous but very authentic. In the afternoon, Grace and I volunteered in one of Sucre´s orphanages. We played with the babies (aged 3 weeks - 2 years), fed them and put them to sleep. We also went to the market to buy nappies, cream, milk and biscuits. The orphanage was very clean and all the babies seemed...

May 20, 2011 - Surviving Quad Biking

I went quad biking for the first time today. It was so much fun. We spent three hours on open road around the outskirts of Sucre, driving on very rocky terrain in beautiful surroundings. Due to an unmentionable incident at the beginning of the excursion (i.e. driving into a wall), I was far too scared to ride the quad myself, so I sat on the back of Grace´s and then Jocelin´s. Grace and I have failed our driving test eight times between us, so we were terrified at the prospect of having control of the bike. However, Grace was a very safe...

May 19, 2011 - Sickness in Sucre

A three hour bus journey brought us to the official captial of Bolivia, Sucre. We are here for three nights and are staying in one of the nicest hotels I have ever been in! Today is Sabine´s birthday so we are holding a small suprise party with cake and birthday hats and are then going out to an all in one restaurant and club. Nearly everybody has diarrohea. We think it was caused by eating the ice in the karaoke bar yesterday. I, having stayed away from the drinks, am one of the only ones without it. I am feeling quite smug.

Feb 26, 2011 - Sucre

Okay...So we've left Anahi's and returned to the Hostelling system!! But Sucre is a good place to rekindle the relationship with travelling. It is very Beautiful, colonial style architecture, and all is very white! The weather has been fantastic also. Went to A convent where you can walk on the roof, and also to a place where you can view the whole city. Beautiful. And apart from being caught out in some really heavy rain...all was good!

Feb 2, 2011 - Sucre

2nd Feb: We have come down in altitude now so it´s much warmer and people aren´t struggling to breath so much and peoples headaches are better etc. On the journey here we stopped at a bridge which looked like it belongs in a fairytale! Everyone was excited to get to Sucre as they felt better and it looked nicer than everywhere else we had been in Bolivia so far so we had a good night out for dinner at ´Joy Ride´and then cheap drinks at Florins. 3rd Feb: It was really hot and sunny today, yay! But not near any beaches as Bolivia is...

Sep 15, 2010 - Sucre, Bolivia

I have arrived in Sucre "La Ciudad Blanca" (the white city), so named because of it's plethora of Colonial white buildings. Independence was proclaimed here and it is now a Unesco World Heritage site. La Paz is the seat of government in Bolivia but Sucre claims the title, judicial capital. It is very pretty, with lots of courtyards and flowers and has a very "Spanish" feel. Red tiled roofs atop white buildings and narrow cobbled streets surround the splendid, palm tree bedecked central plaza I am here for 5 weeks, two of which are at...