We arrived super early on Friday morning by bus in the cityof Sucre. Once the capital city of Bolivia, with its lovely old buildings, clean streets and relaxed feel, left me wondering why anyone would change it to La Paz in the first place!
Although my initial reaction wasn’t good: ( something spilt in the bus luggage compartment resulting in my bag getting soaked) in Derek’s words, “ only a tad wet”, and in my fury told a homeless man to get lost on his asking for money, needless to say the anger soon dissipated on our arrival at Casa Verde our B&B. A.K.A Heaven! Firstly it was a couple blocks from the city centre, where all the
buildings are painted white – beautiful to the mostly face-bricked cities we’dbeen to before. Secondly, our B&B had a pool and fantastic outdoor area, a gorgeous bedroom and a Belgian owner who was just lovely!
The morning got even better when we headed to a restaurant recommended for breakfast, where we tucked in. Me into a bowl of muesli, real normal muesli and yoghurt!! Oh my gosh I think Derek was so relieved to finally see me smile over a meal!! We spent the day wondering around the city. Taking it all in, in lovely sunny weather (we were loving the lower altitude)! We spent a little time shopping for new slops for Derek – about 100metres out our front door he tripped and broke a slop! He hobbled around and tried to appear like he was walking normally but got a couple strange stares from the locals.We eventually managed to find a pair - the biggest they had just fitted Derek - Bolivian people are pretty small you know! We also did a bit of investigating about our upcoming Salt Flats Tour and decided on a tour company to go with.
The second day we literally did nothing – wonderful! Just relaxed around the pool reading and catching up on emails. That afternoon we went for a walk around town and came across a very noisy and lively procession of people in amazing costumes. When we went out later that evening for dinner, the parade was still continuing. Poor girls in high heels dancing up the street for at least 5 hours! Quite interesting how some women wore very traditional costumes yet others were in
rather sparkly, slightly racy numbers!
That evening we joined up with our French friends we had made on our Amazon trip. We had such a fun evening catching up, together with a few too many Caipirinhas and some dancing, it was a great way to end our time in Sucre!
Although my initial reaction wasn’t good: ( something spilt in the bus luggage compartment resulting in my bag getting soaked) in Derek’s words, “ only a tad wet”, and in my fury told a homeless man to get lost on his asking for money, needless to say the anger soon dissipated on our arrival at Casa Verde our B&B. A.K.A Heaven! Firstly it was a couple blocks from the city centre, where all the
buildings are painted white – beautiful to the mostly face-bricked cities we’dbeen to before. Secondly, our B&B had a pool and fantastic outdoor area, a gorgeous bedroom and a Belgian owner who was just lovely!
The morning got even better when we headed to a restaurant recommended for breakfast, where we tucked in. Me into a bowl of muesli, real normal muesli and yoghurt!! Oh my gosh I think Derek was so relieved to finally see me smile over a meal!! We spent the day wondering around the city. Taking it all in, in lovely sunny weather (we were loving the lower altitude)! We spent a little time shopping for new slops for Derek – about 100metres out our front door he tripped and broke a slop! He hobbled around and tried to appear like he was walking normally but got a couple strange stares from the locals.We eventually managed to find a pair - the biggest they had just fitted Derek - Bolivian people are pretty small you know! We also did a bit of investigating about our upcoming Salt Flats Tour and decided on a tour company to go with.
The second day we literally did nothing – wonderful! Just relaxed around the pool reading and catching up on emails. That afternoon we went for a walk around town and came across a very noisy and lively procession of people in amazing costumes. When we went out later that evening for dinner, the parade was still continuing. Poor girls in high heels dancing up the street for at least 5 hours! Quite interesting how some women wore very traditional costumes yet others were in
rather sparkly, slightly racy numbers!
That evening we joined up with our French friends we had made on our Amazon trip. We had such a fun evening catching up, together with a few too many Caipirinhas and some dancing, it was a great way to end our time in Sucre!
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