Made it to Bolivia's white city... Sucre! (Which is also the capital)
So glad we are going down in elevation! Sucre is at 2800m above sea level (compared to 4,000m in la Paz) and I'm not out of breath all the time! Yeay!
We arrived in sucre on a Sunday so there was literally nothing to do! To my surprise, on Monday there wasn't anything to do either other than strolling the city itself and eating even more chocolate!
Sunday Mia and I went for a walk and ended up in a big park full of families having a Sunday fun day! The kids were renting motorized kids cars and having races around the park, others were in the playground or around the many jumpy houses around. It really reminded me of my childhood and going to the park on Sundays, it was so much fun! We also passed through many white plazas (apparently during the plague Bolivians thought that if they painted everything white the plague will not hit the town or it will stop)
After a cheery park stroll we decided to visit the "cementerio general" (general cemetery) where we got to explore around and see a whole lot of graves!
It was interesting to see how the cemetery is built, they have many tall walls where the coffins are stacked one on top of the other. At the entrance of the cemetery you can find young boys with ladders who clean and put flowers for those people who are way up high!
We also found different categories... One of them for babies and kids :-( their little windows were decorated with toys such as cars and dolls... I felt sad for those who have lost their little ones :(
Sunday night a group of us went for a fancy French dinner at la Taverne. We had some delicious dishes such as goat cheese salad with rose petals and honey!
And the groups' favorite... Fillet mignon
Monday I went for a local market stroll and it was the same as every other local market. In this one the amount of potato sacks were even bigger than in other markets! Bolivians claim to have more than 4 thousand kinds of potatoes!!!! (that's more than Peru!)
Bolivia is also well known for their chocolate so Mia and I made sure to go grab some!
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