Sucre

It´s been a couple days since we´ve updated. We´ve been through Cochabamba for a day, which was uneventful except for a really big market where I didn´t buy anything, and a cafe that served an amazing caramel coffee drink. Now we are in Sucre, which is beautiful. They call it the "white city", and when we arrived we saw that they weren´t lying. The majority of the buildings are in the colonial style, and painted bright white. It looks amazing.

Yesterday, after trying some of the chocolate that the city is famous for, we went and saw the fossilized dinosaur tracks that sit 5km outside of the city. It is the largest collection of continuous tracks in the world, and it is basically a giant wall of stone that sits vertically (having shifted due to seismic activity in the past). It was discovered after a cement quarry uncovered it, and it´s pretty impressive. We met an Irish couple there who we are going to travel with until we get to Chile.

Today we went to a market town called Tarabuco about an hour from the city, and it was pleasant, with some nice tapestries and stuff. We bought toques.

We are leaving tomorrow morning for Potosi, which is a town on the way to the Uyuni salt flats that apparently features mine tours. There is one company that allegedly allows you to light off a stick of dynamite...yeah, cool. Don´t worry, I´ll be safe about it.

Anyways, will update when we get to the next town.


Later,

Ron