Sam and E-J's Adventure

The ride to Sucre was not a pleasant one for Sam as he was suffering from what seems to be a constant illness when you are in Bolivia, `The Bolivian Belli!`What also didn´t help was when the bus driver decided to lock the bus loo during the journey with another 6 hours to go!

When we finally arrived in Sucre, Sam went straight to bed (via a good 10 minutes in the Bus Station Loo!), and E-J went off exploring the pretty little city. It reminded E-J of Arequipa, as it too is full of beautiful white buildings. The streets are also filled with beggars on every corner. There is also an abundance of chocolate shops and the chocolate there tastes as good as in Belgium!

By mid afternoon, Sam managed to venture out for a quick bite to eat and afterwards we bumped into Lou and Tobias, our friends that we had originally met in Cuenca and had planned to meet up with again in Sucre. We made plans for the evening and retreated back to our hostels as the weather was pretty miserable.

The next day we all agreed to meet in the Bike Ride Cafe to watch the football game and to our suprise found a couple that we had met on our Jungle tour. The six of us all sat together having a good catch up and trying to ignore the appalling defeat that England experienced against Croatia. We spent the rest of the day and evening there, having various beers and enjoying each others' banter.

The next day we all re-meet in the Cafe for a hearty breakfast before we said our goodbyes to Veronica and Ben and set off for Potosi via taxi. We found this to be far more civilised than doing the usual painful bus journey and incredibly affordable too!

Sam's comments: Sucre was very relaxing, although the bus journey was the complete opposite! Sadly that will always taint my memory of a beautiful town.

E-J's Comments: Sucre is a very lovely place and the chocolate there is amazing! Sadly while we were there, there was a protest from the country people and there were a few riots which escalated into being very dangerous. We were lucky to be out of the place by then but we heard that the police got driven out of the town for a few days and a couple of young lads were killed in all the riots. Itś scary to think that somewhere that looks so tranquille and beautiful can have such an under current of political issues.