I stayed in a beautiful hostel, a house that’s almost 400 years old. I liked the hostel although it lacked a lot of services. I met a man from England who’s been traveling for 16 years and he goes back to England every few years to work to continue his travel. He’s been on 21 months travel starting in Canada all the way to South America. This is his 7th visit to Latin America. I met a young guy from Montreal who decided to take one year off from university to travel in South America. I also met many French tourists, it seems the French and the Germans travel a lot, because I frequently meet them in my travel.
Sucre is very small, it can be visited in about 3 hours. I liked it because it’s cleaner and more organized than most places in Bolivia. The weather can be sometimes cold and it rains very often. I heard of a dinosaur museum outside the city, where according to what I read online and heard from other tourists you could see what’s presumed as dinosaur’s footsteps. I went there with a Swiss tourist I met at the hostel, the site didn’t look as a museum but they have a building that houses some fiberglass dinosaurs. The most thing I appreciated in Sucre was the daily trip to the fresh produce market, where you could buy all kinds of exotic fruits and vegetables.
The trip out from Sucre was uncomfortable. I left at night and it was raining and cold, to make it worse, the driver assistant kept the window open. I went and politely asked him to close the window, but he pretended to close it but then reopened it again. I noticed he was chewing some coca leaves, it’s very often to see people in Bolivia chewing coca leaves, and may be it kept him warm so that’s why he kept the window open. I noticed something about people in Bolivia, I am not sure if it’s only towards the tourists, but I felt there’s a lot of mistrust, they always don’t believe a person and always thinking like who are you to tell me something even if you ask nicely, and many times common sense doesn’t exist. For instance at the hostel, they have few plates to use and if you need to use other plates they won’t allow you, they have them locked with keys. The refrigerator is also locked with a key, and you need to go to the front desk every time you need something. The bathroom doesn’t have a mirror, when I asked the front desk, they said, there’s a mirror in the hallway, so when I had to shave, I had to walk to the hallway to check if I missed any spots. I was the only tourists who stayed there more than 2 nights, most tourists when they come and see the attitude they leave. The only reason I stayed there was because it was quiet because most of the time I was alone in the hostel. Also the first hostel I stayed at the border with Argentina, the behavior of the other local guests at the hostel was indifferent and no courtesy to others.
We arrived in La Paz early in the morning and it was raining heavily, some streets were almost flooded from the rain and the mud. I waited for an hour hoping the weather to change but then decided I will just continue to the Peru since it’s only 2 hours to the borders with Peru besides I’ve already visited La Paz last year.
