Sucre

Sucre

We took the local bus from Potosi to Sucre Bolivia's official capital. Sucre was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1991 and has retained the flavour of its colonial heritage in its churches, museums, and ancient mansions. Most of the town's colonial buildings have been whitewashed, earning it the nickname the 'White City'. Many parts of the city are well maintained and then contrast to quite rough with lots of rubbish and tagging. This was our tour guides home town so her lovely daughter joined us for meals.  We did a fair amount of walking around the city and enjoyed not having to cope with the altitude here.

We visited Cal Orcko, where 68 million-year-old dinosaur footprints have been discovered. This is the largest collection of dinosaur footprints in the world.  We went to look around the local food and spice markets, some interesting new fruits to try - custard fruit  very nice.  The size of the fruits and veges were impressive. 

We also went out to a traditional dance concert. This had a real range of traditional and modern dance including the Gauchos.  The meal with dinner was ok. Prior to the tour we had a guide explain all the costumes that we would see in the show and this gave it further perspective.

Government buildings of Chuquisaca in Sucre

Route we took from Potosi to Sucre on the local bus.

Dinosaur footprints at Cal Orcko, 68 million-year-old footprints the largest collection of dinosaur footprints in the world. 

More footprints this was once a horizontal muddy lake bed now millions of years later a vertical wall

The tour guide explaining the footprints

The market tour.

Cake anyone.

Flowers?

Weaving some of the traditional cloth

A few photos from the traditional dance concert. Caporal or caporales today is a folklore dance very popular in Bolivia.

Local school children lots of parades

The Zebras a local idea helping both locals and visitor with road safety

View of Sucre

One of the old streets out and about walking tour

Some of the many churches lit up at night 

On our way back to La Paz

Landscape photo from the plane volcanos in Bolivia