Sucre - day 1

We arrived around 5:30 to Sucre. The bus ride was terrible ~ screaming kid, not space for our legs, temperatures like in sauna, bad smell 😅. We took taxi to our hotel which looked closed. It was still dark outside and I had no clue what we gonna do. Luckily the receptionist saw us through the camera and opened the door for us. Our room was ready so we could check in immediately. It felt like winning a lottery 🤣. We went to bed and slept a bit before going to breakfast to nearby cafe. Flo needed to check the work so after breakfast he went back to hotel and I went to nearby salon to do pedicure, it was only 7€ and it was very necessary after traveling for so long 🙊. Our hotel is called Kultur Berlin and it’s hotel, restaurant, travel agency & night club in once. It’s really big complex and it’s really nice made (view from our room in second photo). For lunch we went to the Mercado Central which is a big food market. In the top floor you will find all the restaurants. Flo wasn’t very amused and didn’t want to eat there really but at the end I persuaded him to have a full local experience 🤣 we ate Mondongo (local speciality with corn, pork meat, potatoes and spicy red sauce) and chorizo with salad, rice and potatoes. The portions were huge and on the way out of the market we got fresh juice from one of the 40 ladies 🤣. They have a weird system there was a part of the market only with meat, then only fruits, only spices. It would be better if they would mix it up instead of screaming at the customers and trying to persuade them I have the best store 🤣. We needed to buy bus ticket for La Paz so we went to the bus terminal again (in the morning all the ticket shop were still closed and you can’t really buy it online). Bolivia is Cash country ~ you always need cash and it’s almost impossible to pay sth by card. We went to nearly 10 ATMs but didn’t get any cash either you needed local card, visa, cash wasn’t available or the ATM wasn’t working 🤣. On top of it we could buy the ticket either not only because we didn’t have cash with us but also because they sell tickets only for the current day 😅😅. Flo got really frustrated that we have to go on Friday again there 🤣🤣🤣. The bus terminal is bit far away so we decided to take local minibus. Flo could hardly stand there (his head was touching the top of the bus) and he never wants to take bus again 🤣🙊 but let’s be honest where in the world can you ride a bus for 0,2 € 😂. Later in the afternoon after finally getting some cash we went to Casa de la Libertad (House of Liberty) which is located in the main square of Sucre Plaza 25 de Mayo. This house was built originally by Jesuits as their private chapel. Later on the oldest university of South America was founded here and the students of law school were defending their thesis here. In 1825 the Independence of Alto Peru (today’s Bolivia) was signed here and this place served as congress for many years. We got guided tour in English here so we could understand better the history of Bolivia and importance of this place in their history. The building is beautiful and it’s a must see in Sucre. Afterwards we just walked a bit more around tried their local chocolate and had dinner in our hotel.もっと詳しく