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Sucre, the heart of Bolivia
Wonderful Sucre! Before arriving to Sucre we already heard from many people that it's a nice city. And yes, indeed it was!
We ended up spending 10 days there and I could easily had stayed longer if our time window would have allowed it.
After we arrived to a party hostel, our first day was well spend with finding a new home. So we moved to a lovely little hostel called The Beehive. The name with meaning as it was a community thinking, where recycling, helping local people and each other was in focus.
And the hostel was full of great people and just the size that you could know or at least recognize everyone. Some girls arranged a fajita night, with Spanish quiz as starters and delicious food for 20 bolivianos (20 DKK or 3 Euro). And I even found out there was a sweet hairdresser staying there, who were up for giving me a haircut!
Staying there we started individual Spanish classes so every day the teacher would come to the hostel for 2 hours of different grammar or conversation. I enjoyed my conversations with my teacher just as much for asking about cultural matters and she was very nice to share with me, so we came through subjects like funerals, adoptions (and corruption connected to), being single Mom, male and female roles in a family, weird climate of Sucre and more..
Anne and I also succeeded in finding a place in Sucre that offered yoga. And it was a fitness center! Only one year old, so all facilities was in top shape and super nice hot showers. Yes, we really understand to appreciate every time we have hot showers! So going for yoga classes we decided to try other and tougher things so we have now completed a TRX- and BodyCombat class as well.
The surroundings of Sucre is also known for having dinosaur footprints, so one day we went to this massive limestone wall that have protected many footprints from different dinosaurs from the cretaceous period. Super interesting!
We also went to Las Siete Cascadas (the seven waterfalls) and even though it was a grey, chilly day, luck was smiling at us and the sun came out as we arrived and kept us company as the only one beside a eagle drifting far above us. We enjoyed having it to ourselves and managed to crawl up 3 of them and had a nice swim and lunch on the rocks.
The city of Sucre was full of nice cafes and restaurants and it was a pleasure to be vegetarian there. Also their local market was amazing full of fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers, nuts and more and everything for an incredible low price, so we also did a lot of cooking ourselves in the hostel.
It was also the city where we would go to the cinema. First we saw "Batman vs. Superman" with English speaking and Spanish subtitles. Afterwards we dared to try a cartoon "Zootopia" only Spanish speaking and it was difficult but a good and fun challenge!
As I might have left the impression already, Sucre is a wealthy city and even though there is fights about it, it's the capital of Bolivia. Most people would guess on La Paz which is definitely the biggest, but like Australia have Sydney as biggest and Canberra capital it's a similar situation here.
I picture myself coming back to Sucre if I come through Bolivia again on my trip, and I have already heard and seen that it's a place people easily get stuck for several weeks if not months, also because of good possibility of doing volunteer work and improve Spanish skills.
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