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Three-Day Trek with Condor Trekkers – from Sucre, Bolivia
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 21 March 2012
Having spent a few days in pretty Sucre, I wanted to escape the hustle and bustle of the city for a few days. Condor Trekkers offer treks for all abilities, and as a not-for-profit organisation that invests time and money into local communities, their three-day adventure is the perfect way to give a little something [...]
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Foto Friday – Nostalgic for Bolivia
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 17 June 2011
Another of our favorite photos from our time in Sucre, Bolivia.
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Festival de la Virgen de Guadalupe – A Photo Essay
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 4 February 2011
In September 2009, we began our South American journey with our first stop being Sucre, Bolivia. Our timing couldn’t have been better if it was planned, as we unexpectedly arrived [...]
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Vegetarian Survival Guide to Bolivia
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 16 November 2010
We heard from other vegetarians who had travelled through Bolivia that we’d be eating a lot of egg and chips (unfortunate as we don’t like eggs), and have to put up with finding bones in supposedly vegetarian soup. It didn’t sound promising.
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Our Guide to Sucre, Bolivia
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 9 November 2010
We fell for Sucre instantly – the sunny weather; youthful, modern vibe; cobbled streets; terracotta roofs and white colonial buildings made us feel like we were in Spain until you discover pockets of Bolivia.
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Sucre – A Mind-Expanding Experience
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 8 November 2010
As cities go, Sucre doesn’t feel like one. It feels more like a busy town. Everyone tells you that Sucre is the ‘white city’, and it fitted the description well. On some well-founded advice from friend we had decided to stay in Sucre for a week and use it as a base for a week’s [...]
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Bolivian Bus Hell – An Illustrated Guide
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 19 October 2010
The earliest bus that goes the journey between Sucre and Samaipata leaves at 4pm – possibly because they got tired of all the screaming from the back when they went during the day – so I was finally going to have to face that which I had been avoiding throughout our journey through Bolivia: The [...]Related posts:Our Guide to Sucre, Bolivia
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An Off the Beaten Track Tour of Sucre Restaurants
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 14 October 2010
The worst part of being a vegetarian in Bolivia isn’t not being able to find anything to eat (we always can) but not being able to try the local food.
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Sucre Spanish School Review
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 7 October 2010
I have taken group Spanish classes in England and Buenos Aires and had a number of private teachers but my best experience so far has been taking classes at Sucre Spanish School.
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Sweet as Sucre, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 10 August 2010
Dubbed the White City because property in the central area must by law be painted white, Sucre dazzles on first sight. Leafy plazas, pristine colonial giants and more churches and cathedrals than you can shake a stick at go almost unnoticed by well-heeled business people and indigenous women in colourful shawls as they bustle about [...]
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Indigenous Weaving Art In Sucre Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 25 June 2010
On our second day in Sucre we visited the Museo de Arte Indigena or Museum of Indigenous Art. The museum is part of a project to revive hand-woven crafts of Bolivia. The exhibition provides a historical time line of the Candelaria, Potolo and Tarabuco styles of weaving. There are ancient and current tools on display [...]
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Hiking With Condortrekkers In Sucre Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 8 June 2010
We joined a 3-day trek with Condortrekkers, a non-profit tour company based out of Sucre, Bolivia. Our tour included walking on an Inca Trail, visiting the crater town of Maragua and seeing ancient fossilized dinosaur footprints. On day one we took a microbus from Sucre to a nearby small town where our group of 7 [...]
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Sunday In The Tarabuco Market, Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 30 May 2010
How to spend your Sunday morning while visiting Sucre, Bolivia. In Tarabuco, Bolivia, Sunday begins bright and early, 4am early for the Yampara people who walk 4 to 6 hours up and over mountain ranges into town to participate in the weekly market. Tarabuco is located in the Chuquisaca department, 2 hours by bus from Sucre, Bolivia. Many [...]
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Touring the Central Highlands - Potosi and Sucre
Blog: Mood to Travel - 25 May 2010
Backpacking, Uyuni, Bolivia [Enlarge]
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Sucre – Wow!
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 20 May 2010
Not an overreaction: Sucre, Bolivia’s actual capital (as opposed to La Paz, which everyone just assumes is the capital), is astonishingly gorgeous. Coming into the city you will find yourself in a clean, beautiful, looked-after place with stunning and well-maintained architecture and many parks and plazas. You might as well have entered another country. This, [...]
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Sucre - Bolivia
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 17 May 2010
Sucre is the most modern place I’ve seen so far in Bolivia. It is Bolivia’s other capital and is home to a considerably slower pace of life than La Paz. This can be just what you need. After all, as much as I enjoyed La Paz and all of its energy, I wouldn’t have wanted to stay there longer than the week that we did. Sucre would be a good place to study, should you want to learn a bit of Spanish for example. We studied in Cuenca, Ecuador and there are many similarities between the two cities. It is also lower than Potosi, which meant it was much warmer, thankfully.
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Happiness is Ice Cream and a Fully Reclining Seat
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 7 May 2010
4/27/10: Sucre, Bolivia For the last three days, we had been planning on taking the Dino Truck out to see the dinosaur tracks just outside of Sucre. But then we thought about it some more, and the thing is – neither of us is that interested in dinosaurs. For me, I think this stems from [...]
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Live Infomercial on a Bolivian Bus
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 5 May 2010
4/24/10: Sucre, Bolivia Note: translated into English from the original Spanish by ZZTRANS 4.2.11 Ladies! Gentlemen! Friends! Passengers! What I have here is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! You have seen the amazing coca leaves before for sale everywhere, have you not? Chewing coca leaves or drinking coca tea can help you live longer, jump higher and [...]
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Ciao to the White City
Blog: Cogs Watch - 26 March 2010
Our four week stint in Sucre - 'La Ciudad Blanca' - is almost at a close and, to my surprise, we're itching to hit the road again. It's been great having somewhere to call home for a month and we've been so lucky with our hostel, La Dolce Vita. We had a huge room to ourselves - with the luxury of an ensuite and space to study - enjoyed many an afternoon sunning ourselves on the patio and even had a night of dancing (with benefit of quite a few beers) with the French/Swiss-German owners.
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Spanish lessons from a 7 year old
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 24 March 2010
There are many ways in which you can escape learning and speaking more Spanish than you want to, even in a Spanish speaking country. While everything in class is always ‘EN ESPANOL’ (that is our teacher, Maria-Illena, yelling at us if we cheat and whisper to each other something in English), on any ‘pausa’ at Spanish school, everyone talks to each other in English and Claire and I cheat and always talk to each other in English at home.
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Getting to know Bolivia
Blog: Cogs Watch - 19 March 2010
Today marked the end of our third week of Spanish lessons in Sucre. It's been intense scribbling down hundreds of new words each week, learning different language tenses while trying to read, write and speak it all correctly, every instruction and conversation in Spanish. I wont say there haven't been times when I've questioned the sanity behind my decision to voluntarily return to study.
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Back to School
Blog: Cogs Watch - 8 March 2010
Some might call it madness, I know I have each morning this week while climbing out of bed at 7am to get ready for Spanish class. That's right, I've made the voluntary decision to go back to school, homework and all.
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Hablas Espanol??
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 7 March 2010
One week of Spanish lessons down!
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A step back in time: return to Bolivia
Blog: Cogs Watch - 27 February 2010
Ok, so things don't always go to plan, especially when you're travelling. We were really keen to volunteer at the Inti Wara Yassi animal sanctuary, so much so that we travelled over 40 hours by bus from Buenos Aires to get to the tiny town of Villa Tunari (somewhere between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra), only to be told that the Park was full. This was very frustrating as we'd emailed what we thought was the Park - actually just an office in London - to tell them the date we were coming. 'Just turn up and feel free to volunteer whenever you wish', they said.
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Happy New Year from Sucre!
Blog: Cogs Watch - 12 January 2010
To be honest, I can’t say I was sad to leave La Paz in the end. On top of the drink spiking incident we’d also found out that there were no longer tours of the San Pedro prison since an uprising a few months ago.
