Sucre

Everything went well on our bus ride to Sucre. Just one of our tyres exploded before we reached Sucre, but they changed it very fast and routinated, so it wasn't too much of a problem. Passing the road block was then actually much easier than we imagined. You just get out of the bus, walk three kilometers - sometimes underneath of truck that are parked across the road - and you notice that you are on the other side when you see all the minibuses waiting to take people to the city center. 

We checked into the same hostel as Dirk, the guy we already met in Cafayate and at the border which was a good choice because they had very nice courtyard with nice hammocks and the biggest hummingburds i've ever seen looking for honey in the flowers.

 

Sucre is a beautiful town with white colonial buildings surrounding the plaza and it has some good and cheap eating options (although you should be careful, almost everybody we met while we were there had or has had some digestive problems due to unhygienic food). But in the beginning everything went well for us, we had fruit salad at the market and Käsefrühstück in the KulturcafeBerlin.

We visited two museums and went on a hike some waterfalls nearby. Also we relaxed quite a lot in the warm and pleasent weather and enjoyed being able to walk normally on only 2700m above sealevel. It was only on the last day that we got sick as well (probably pizza), so I think we left Sucre just in time to cure ourselves in La Paz.

-sandra