Sucre (Bolivia)

To avoid the crappy Bolivian roads and busses, we took a plane to Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia. Compared to the gigantic and polluted city of La Paz, Sucre is much smaller and certainly much more relaxed. It is often referred to as the white city, because of its white colonial houses and churches. At first sight, Sucre looks quite wealthy, but if you move away from the main square (which is beatiful by the way), you encounter a lot of beggars and poor people. The queues at the welfare offices are huge! Well, poverty is everywhere in Bolivia...

The city center is rather small, so we took the Dino Truck to Cal Orkco, the worlds largest collection of dinosaur footprints on a 70 degree wall, which used to be a lake wall before the Andes started to rise. Really cool to see these real trails of different dinos that we only know from Jurassic Park.

Although we had a very nice hostal, we saw enough of the city after 2 days, so we went searching for a decent busride to Tupiza. However, in Bolivia it is very hard to find a bus with a toilet, which is a huge problem for Joke, who must have the the worlds smallest bladder. But I can't blame her: on this 10 hour busride, they only stop once after 3 hours. After then, you have to hold it 7 hours. Combine that with the bumpy unpaved roads and you can imagine what a nice trip this is! :-)