Sucre - Bolivia
9/21/05
We were on the streets of Sucre by 9 a.m. It is as small relaxed clean town full of beautiful old buildings from colonial time.
The church at main square has a tower with 16 bells.
In the same square is the Palace of Justice, also very nice and well kept. Bolivia doesn't seem to have only one capital, although everyone think that La Paz is the capital Sucre has the seat of the whole judiciary system and is also listed as capital of Bolivia.
In the afternoon we visited the Museo Casa De La Libertad where an excellent tour is given on the political history of Bolivia. The museum is located in a building constructed by the Jesuits on the beginning of the 16th century for the Universidad de San Francisco. Also, in the same building, the independence of Alto Peru (Peru and Bolivia at the time) was proclaimed. The leader for independence from Spain was Simon Bolivar, a Venezuelan.
After the museum we adventured in the local market where we saw head of cows with eyes popped out for sale, but we have no idea how they prepare it. Then we went back to the main square and took our time on one of the many benches.
Lots of little boys approached us asking to shine our shoes. This is a very sad thing, because they should be either in the school or playing with their friends, but not working.
At the end of the day we went back to the hotel and met very nice and interesting people, Dan from Australia, Christian, a German doing social work in Argentina to avoid serving the army, and Peter&Mette a British/Norwegian couple also in a world tour trip. While chatting we tried many different local beers :)p
9/22/05
We had a long traveling day ahead of us. We left the hotel at 6 a.m. and took a bus back to Potosi, then at 11 a.m. we took another bus to Oruro and at 4:30 p.m. we took another bus to La Paz where we arrived at 7:30 p.m.
Along the way it was again a dry landscape with no vegetation and only a few villages here and there.
We stopped in one of the villages (probably a dozen of houses)where there were sellers sitting aside the main road.
On the last bus, to La Paz, we had lots of sellers, among them one was selling several kinds of medicines and another was selling books. The book seller caught our attention because he wasn't selling ordinary novels, no, he had the constitution of Bolivia, history of the wars of Bolivia and a Spanish grammar book.
Arriving in La Paz we saw the busy city, with the center in a hole and all the suburbs around on the hills.
We were on the streets of Sucre by 9 a.m. It is as small relaxed clean town full of beautiful old buildings from colonial time.
The church at main square has a tower with 16 bells.
In the same square is the Palace of Justice, also very nice and well kept. Bolivia doesn't seem to have only one capital, although everyone think that La Paz is the capital Sucre has the seat of the whole judiciary system and is also listed as capital of Bolivia.
In the afternoon we visited the Museo Casa De La Libertad where an excellent tour is given on the political history of Bolivia. The museum is located in a building constructed by the Jesuits on the beginning of the 16th century for the Universidad de San Francisco. Also, in the same building, the independence of Alto Peru (Peru and Bolivia at the time) was proclaimed. The leader for independence from Spain was Simon Bolivar, a Venezuelan.
After the museum we adventured in the local market where we saw head of cows with eyes popped out for sale, but we have no idea how they prepare it. Then we went back to the main square and took our time on one of the many benches.
Lots of little boys approached us asking to shine our shoes. This is a very sad thing, because they should be either in the school or playing with their friends, but not working.
At the end of the day we went back to the hotel and met very nice and interesting people, Dan from Australia, Christian, a German doing social work in Argentina to avoid serving the army, and Peter&Mette a British/Norwegian couple also in a world tour trip. While chatting we tried many different local beers :)p
9/22/05
We had a long traveling day ahead of us. We left the hotel at 6 a.m. and took a bus back to Potosi, then at 11 a.m. we took another bus to Oruro and at 4:30 p.m. we took another bus to La Paz where we arrived at 7:30 p.m.
Along the way it was again a dry landscape with no vegetation and only a few villages here and there.
We stopped in one of the villages (probably a dozen of houses)where there were sellers sitting aside the main road.
On the last bus, to La Paz, we had lots of sellers, among them one was selling several kinds of medicines and another was selling books. The book seller caught our attention because he wasn't selling ordinary novels, no, he had the constitution of Bolivia, history of the wars of Bolivia and a Spanish grammar book.
Arriving in La Paz we saw the busy city, with the center in a hole and all the suburbs around on the hills.
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